All Three Parties Did Not Follow Roadmap

Why road map was left behind | csmonitor.com

"The level of compliance was minimal from the start. So was the level of American monitoring and determination to oblige the sides to comply," says Joseph Alpher, an independent Israeli strategic analyst. "Given the American sponsorship of the road map, I think that's the more cardinal sin."

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government didn't formally accept the plan. Israel instead accepted the "steps" outlined in the road map and then appended 14 reservations.

As the months went by, analysts say, neither side fully complied with the plan, meant to establish a Palestinian state by 2005: Both sides predicated progress on actions the other refused to take.

EL - This was Bush's Photo-Op For Peace plan. They spent more time building a wooden bridge and landscaping an area for the cameras then they did drawing up the so-called "roadmap."