Posts Tagged: Oslo Accords
The Two-State Unicorn
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said prior to the Israeli elections that he would annex the West Bank settlements, many politicians, pundits, Jews, and foreign...
‘Financial Times’ Oslo Obituary Omits Palestinian Rejection of Peace Offers
The Financial Times contextualizes its January 4 review of two recent books (Preventing Palestine, by Seth Anziska, and Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin...
The Depths to Which the Oslo Process Has Driven Israel
In the 25 years since the signing of the Oslo Accords in September 1993, just one of the 10 reigning Israeli governments has completed its...
The Oslo Disaster Revisited: How It Happened
Precisely two decades after the failure by the Golda Meir government to identify a willing Arab peace partner triggered the devastating 1973 Yom Kippur War,...
Poll: One-Third of Palestinians, Half of Gazans, Want to Emigrate; Three-Quarters Say Life Was Better Before Oslo Accords
A new poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research revealed that one-third of all Palestinians and one-half of Gazans want to...
The Oslo Accords, Blame It on Norway
One of the most intriguing aspects of the Oslo Accords saga lies in the fact that it was Norway -- a country culturally and geographically remote from...
Deconstructing the Oslo Accords 25 Years Later: A Gift or a Curse?
JNS.org - It’s hard to believe that it’s been a quarter of a century. September 13 marks the 25th anniversary of the 1993 signing of the US-brokered...
Oslo at 25: What Might Have Been
September 13 will mark the 25th anniversary of the Oslo agreement. Most commentators see it as something between a well-intentioned failure and a catastrophe that...
New Movie Takes a Look Back at the Tumultuous Oslo Accords
Is there any reason to be optimistic that there can be a true peace deal for the Israelis and Palestinians? “I don’t think there is another...
The Israel-Hamas Deal: Escape From Oslo
Both domestic and external opponents of the crystallizing deal between the Israeli government and Hamas view the nascent agreement as antithetical to the two-state solution....
Mr. President: The Palestinians Already Had ‘Their Turn’
JNS.org - President Donald Trump said this week that following the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem, the Palestinian Arabs “will get something very...
On the 25th Anniversary of the Oslo Accords
JNS.org - Monday marks 25 years to the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The peace agreement was met...
Are the Palestinians Headed Toward Political Extinction?
JNS.org - These days, the Palestinian national movement is descending, before our very eyes, into an internecine struggle over the right to represent the Palestinians themselves,...
The Trump Administration Just Doesn’t Get Gaza
JNS.org - Last week's conference by the Trump administration on the situation in the Gaza Strip “focused on the need for the Palestinian Authority to take control...
