Below is a list of the best analyses of the Taba negotiations. Click to view:

A European Union account (accepted by the Israeli and Palestinian sides) of what took place can be viewed here.

Deconstructing the Taba talks - an analysis, including maps, from the Foundation for Middle East Peace, March/April 2001.

False expectations round II: the Taba negotiations - Chapter 10 of Israel/Palestine, how to end the war of 1948, by Tanya Reinhart.

Below is an Arab Media Watch rebuttal to the myth that the Palestinians spurned Barak's offer at Taba:

Since mid-2001, the pro-Israeli lobby has started claiming Ehud Barak offered Arafat a "Camp David-plus" deal at the Taba talks in January 2001, but that Arafat "spurned" it. Some commentators have even claimed that Arafat refused to negotiate at Taba, and "walked away" when the offer was put on the table. Therefore, the argument goes, since Israeli elections followed the talks, Arafat was responsible for the election of Ariel Sharon. All these claims are completely untrue.

Most obviously, it bears pointing out that it was Barak who first postponed, then broke off and then abandoned the talks at Taba - not Arafat.

• Barak postponed the talks on 15 January when an Israeli settler in the Gaza Strip was murdered. When the negotiations started at Taba, he broke them off for 48 hours on 23 January when two Israeli citizens were murdered in the West Bank, and said that there would not be a peace deal. In this way, Barak was repeatedly giving the initiative to those who resort to violence, and providing them with a veto over any attempts to reach a peace settlement. Just before the start of the Taba talks, Barak's forces had assassinated Dr Thabet Thabet, a leading Palestinian health official and peace activist. This assassination added to the tally of at least 315 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and settlers since 29 September (43 Israeli Jews had been killed by Palestinians in the same period). A Palestinian response was hardly unexpected, but it was used as an excuse for breaking off talks for two days. It is also notable that the Palestinian side continued to attempt to negotiate with Barak, even though Israeli attacks on Palestinian citizens continued throughout this period.
  
  
• Barak finally returned to the negotiating table on 25 January. By 27 January, he (in a joint statement with the Palestinian delegation) declared that the two sides had "never been closer to reaching an agreement". Then, in his wisdom, Barak decided to unilaterally terminate the negotiations - two days earlier than they had been previously scheduled to finish - so as to be able to obtain more time on the campaigning stump in the Israeli elections (taking place on 6 February). Arafat appealed on Israeli television for Barak to return to the negotiating table, and stated that he still had faith in the peace process. Barak refused to resume negotiations.

One could well be forgiven for concluding that Mr Barak's manoeuvres at Taba were designed more to gratify opposing sectors of Israeli public opinion and the international news media than to obtain a comprehensive agreement with his neighbours.

As for the proposals themselves on offer (available here), far from showing Arafat's unwillingness to negotiate, they demonstrate the detailed offers made by the Palestinian side, and the refusal of the Israeli side to take unprecedented Palestinian concessions seriously.