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30 years after Arafat-Rabin handshake, clear flaws in Oslo Accords doomed peace talks to failure

  • Written by Maha Nassar, Associate Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
30 years after Arafat-Rabin handshake, clear flaws in Oslo Accords doomed peace talks to failureA historic handshake.MPI/Getty Images

On Sept. 13, 1993, the world watched as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn. It was a stunning moment. The famous handshake between adversaries marked the beginning of what became known as the Oslo Accords, a...

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