(CNSNews.com) – A decade has passed since the failure of a U.S. bid to broker a Mideast peace deal ushered in a long and deadly Palestinian uprising. And with a new effort set to begin next week, the main sticking points remain unchanged.

While participants and historians continue to haggle over apportioning blame for the collapse of the Camp David summit in the summer of 2000, the issues that divided the two sides are not generally disputed.

They were the future of Jerusalem; the “right of return” for Palestinian refugees and their offspring; borders of a Palestinian state and the associated future of Jewish settlements; and Israeli security concerns relating in particular to the nature of and future relationship with a Palestinian state...