Oslo accords

Dan Diker, Jason Greenblatt: Giving Arafat Nobel Prize harmed Israel’s fight against terror

"Oslo, in our view, was one of the greatest strategic catastrophes, maybe the greatest strategic catastrophe since the founding of the State of Israel.”

 Dr. Dan Diker, President of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs and Jason Greenblatt, Senior Director for Arab-Israeli Diplomacy at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.
 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, reads a report during a speech to the UN Security Council in January, 1988.

Netanyahu’s climb and collapse: Diplomacy, power, and miscalculation - opinion

 Oslo Accords

Oslo Accords official admits failure, retains hope for Israeli-Palestinian peace - interview

 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, US President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the signing ceremony of the Egyptian - Israeli Treaty, White House lawn, March 26, 1979.

Jimmy Carter's checkered relations with Israel and Jews


Mahmoud Abbas reveals his true colors - opinion

If Abbas wanted peace, he would have said that Shubaki was wrong to participate in terror attacks, serve as a terrorist leader, or purchase tons of weapons.

 RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin greets Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, in October. If you want to know what Abbas really thinks about Israel, peace, and terrorism, just read his eulogy for Fuad Shubaki, says the writer.

How Jerusalem’s inaction fueled the ICC’s anti-Israel agenda – opinion

How Palestinian manipulation and ICC bias led to arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.

 RIYAD MANSOUR, permanent Palestinian observer to the UN, addresses the Security Council on the situation in Gaza last month. In 2012, when the Palestinians asked the UN to recognize the ‘State of Palestine,’ Israel should have declared that it was a breach of the Oslo Accords, the writer argues.

Oslo's environmental, feminine choice, 20 years later - opinion

Last weekend, the 14th conference by Democracy Today was held in Yerevan, Armenia, titled "From Global Insecurity to Common Security - Women's Role in Peacemaking." 

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The tax trap: Israel’s tax money is funding the Palestinian Authority’s pay-for-slay law - analysis

‘We willingly relinquished our fiscal rights in order to buy peace, but we are not getting what we are paying for,’ says Maurice Hirsch, Director of the Initiative for Palestinian Authority

 Maurice Hirsch

On this day: 29 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

While officials hold an annual commemoration for Rabin on Mount Herzl, the surviving family of the visionary told Ynet they were requesting that this year’s be cancelled due to the war.

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and then-foreign minister Shimon Peres attend a Labor Party meeting in 1993. Rabin had been kept in the dark by Peres about the talks in Oslo, the writer asserts.

We must confront forces of destruction with all our power - opinion

In a reflection on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the writer delves into the numerous peace initiatives that have been proposed and consistently rejected by Arab and Palestinian leaders.

 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as US president Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.

This week in Jewish history: Israeli peace accords and a massacre in Lebanon

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

 THE 1993 OSLO Accords between Israel and the PLO were signed in Washington, with a beaming president Bill Clinton presiding over the White House ceremony

Netanyahu tries to reframe defense establishment as blind leftists - analysis

Prime Minister Netanyahu criticized the defense establishment as naive leftists, accusing them of underestimating diplomatic pressure related to the Philadelphi Corridor in his speech.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to an illustrative of the Gaza Strip during a press conference in Jerusalem.

Israel’s continuous appeasement of terror attacks is leading to all-out war - opinion

Israel publicly declaring the desire for diplomacy instead of war might seem like a prudent way to avoid unnecessary conflict with the West.

 A POSTER of Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr is on display on a main road in Sanaa, Yemen, during a rally earlier this month. Israel’s targeted strike eliminating Shukr is an act that is too little, close to 10 months too late, the writer argues.

MFA: Israel can no longer trust Norway as a partner on the Palestinian issue

Oslo had warned Israel that its decision to revoke diplomatic status of Norwegian officials working with the Palestinian Authority would harm ties between the two countries.

Ambassador of Spain to the State of Israel, Ambassador of Norway to the State of Israel and Ambassador of Ireland to the State of Israel view a newly published video of Hamas taking female captives on October 7, after they were summoned to be reprimanded by Israel, May 23, 2024.

The Oslo paradigm can restore Israel’s legitimacy - opinion

'I believe that there is much to be learned from the insights and achievements of the Rabin government some 30 years ago', the author says.

 Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO head Yasser Arafat sign Oslo 2 maps in the White House on September 28, 1995, as Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, US president Bill Clinton, and Jordan’s King Hussein watch.