The signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (DOP), known also as the Oslo Accords, twenty years ago, was a moment of great optimism. The ceremony in the White House on 13 September 1993, during which PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands, raised worldwide hopes that the solution to the old national conflict over Palestine is within reach. And today? Is Oslo dead? What lessons could be drawn? Menachem Klein analyses background, results and lessons of the Oslo process.
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