An Egyptian Red Sea resort town just across the Israeli-Egyptian Sinai border. Taba was the site for a series of talks in January 2001 between Israelis and Palestinians, after the failure of the Camp David II Summit and the outbreak of the Second Intifada in the previous year. Differences were considerably narrowed but no final agreement was produced. The negotiations were a last attempt to salvage a peace settlement before Israeli elections in February, in which Ariel Sharon of the Likud party was expected to and did win a resounding victory, replacing Ehud Barak of the Labor party as Prime Minister. European Union Representative Miguel Moratinos later provided an unofficial but authoritative report of the talks. Some have considered it as the best model for an eventual settlement. See “Deconstructing the Taba Talks.” Settlement Report. Vol. 11, No. 2 (March-April 2001). 24 August 2011. http://www.fmep.org/reports/vol11/no2/04-deconstructing_taba_talks.html; and “Taba Negotiations: The Moratinos Non-Paper.” January 2001. MidEast Web. 24 August 2011. http://www.mideastweb.org/moratinos.htm.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/taba-talks