With the terrible carnage in Israel and Gaza, that handshake 30 years ago seems almost a sad footnote in the history.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat shake hands marking the signing of the peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians, in Washington, Sept. 13, 1993.
My interlocutor’s prophecy soon proved tragically wrong. Seven months after Rabin’s death, following a spate of Palestinian suicide bombings and a controversial Israeli military operation in southern Lebanon, a 46-year-old critic of the Oslo accords named Benjamin Netanyahu won the first of his many political victories. In fits and starts, the Oslo process ground to a halt, and the Israeli “peace camp” that had championed it disintegrated.
Oslo was never meant as a final settlement; it did not even make mention of a “Palestinian state.” It was intended to begin a process in which both sides would gather the confidence and trust to tackle the real obstacles to a settlement — the Palestinians’ claim to a right to return to homes from which they were driven in 1948; how to share Jerusalem, which both claimed as their sacred capital; and what to do about the Jewish settlements multiplying on occupied Palestinian lands.
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