This is the Forward’s coverage of the Oslo Accords, 1993 agreements that started a peace process between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They resulted in the creation of the Palestinian Authority.
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Opinion Palestinians Cut Security Ties With Israel — Not
“Palestinians cut security coordination with Israel”? Really? This looks like another one of those cases where the press gets out ahead of the story. The initial headlines (here, here) said the Palestinians have cut security coordination between their forces and Israel’s. The stories under the headlines said that actually the PLO’s central council had either…
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Opinion This Week in Milestones: War, Peace, Deep Space
We’re in a season of anniversaries and memories, many of them exceedingly melancholy: the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy that ignited the global financial crisis, September 15, 2008 (5 years ago); the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, September 11, 2001 (12 years ago); the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, 10 Tishri 1973 (40 years ago…
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Opinion Knesset Kerfuffle: Spare the VAT, Spoil the Sabbath
Israel’s Jewish Home party, for those still trying to follow these things, is a new body that reunites the main elements of the old National Religious Party (NRP, Hebrew Mafdal), which represented the Modern Orthodox / Religious Zionist constituency in the Knesset for a half-century. The NRP was a supremely pragmatic, almost Chicago-style organization that…
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Fast Forward Are Kerry’s Efforts To Renew Peace Negotiations Too Little, Too late?
A few months before the 20th anniversary of the Oslo Accords, and with a renewed effort about to be made to kick-start the peace talks − it’s useful to pause for a moment and examine what has happened in the West Bank these past two decades. A series of visits there reinforces the impression that,…
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