Some critics say Clinton's rushing the process (so as to get a legacy-enhancing PR coup before the end of his presidency) directly resulted in the disastrous chain of events.
Yes, but it wasn't really Clinton's fault. Arafat had the whole thing planned well in advance. He wanted the intifada, the peace deal was just a convenient place to launch it from. Clinton allowed himself to be used by Arafat, and he refused to criticize Arafat, but he didn't start the intifada (he just didn't do anything to stop it).