Welcome to 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 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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Breaking News 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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News The great tent conspiracy theory: Are ‘outside agitators’ supplying protesters’ tents?
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Opinion Yes, antisemitism is rising. But pro-Palestinian protests aren’t the real threat to our campuses
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Opinion I teach Israel studies at NYU. We are importing the worst of Israel and Palestine to our campuses
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Theater Hidden in this picture, the murder of 1.1 million Jews
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News ‘Dear Parents’: How colleges are trying to spin the protests for the people paying the bills
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Opinion My Columbia classmates are calling for intifada. I just want to go to college.
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Culture How Maurice Sendak’s Jewishness shaped ‘Where the Wild Things Are’
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Fast Forward ‘Huge win’: Brown University protesters reach an agreement to dismantle encampment