The accords, signed in 1993 and in 1995, divided the West Bank into areas A, B and C ■ It remains unclear what steps Palestinians will take to implement this decision
Israeli cuts and warnings in Ramallah over economic collapse have become a ritual that always ends with some solution. But with fewer international checks and balances, the situation may quickly deteriorate
'We expected more from a friendly country like Australia,' says Yuli Edelstein of decision to recognize West Jerusalem as Israel's capital
Rabin was murdered because the right wing had a real and immediate need for his death, but today the right doesn’t need to use murder to achieve its vision.
King Abdullah sought to show Israel that its policies in the territories and the Gaza Strip would no longer continue without a Jordanian response
The prime minister’s assaults on democracy and dissent suddenly seem like a return to his bad old days
This agreement was, and still is, the only ripple of hope in 100 years of conflict
Today, the most strident Israeli and American opposers of Oslo, from Netanyahu to Kushner and Friedman, have the upper hand. Sometimes making the comparison between peacemakers and Nazi collaborators, they are busy translating their 'vision' into reality
Haaretz photographer Emil Salman looks at the presence of the Oslo peace process in the lives of Palestinians and Israelis 25 years after the signing of the accords
Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan discuss how the filming process altered their extreme leftist positions and why, despite failure, we should continue along the path of Rabin and Arafat
Obtaining support of the Israeli voter is a necessary condition for reaching a peace agreement with Israel’s Arab neighbors
Idle taxi driver: ‘Look around at the coffee shops – all the young people are sitting there unemployed. No one thinks about Oslo. All they’re thinking about is how to earn a decent livelihood each day’
The transformation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip into separate Bantustans was all part of the plan
The reason: Palestinian security forces provide an indispensable prop for Israeli right’s delusion of benign occupation
This is how Shimon Peres could have left Oslo’s architects behind, battled Yasser Arafat and terrorism, and put the Jordanian option back on the table
Imagine what Israel would be like today had the negotiations that began at Oslo ended in success — had Yitzhak Rabin completed the task of bringing peace and Yasser Arafat, instead of riding the tiger of terrorism, fought terrorism
Some segments of the right cooperated with the government even as it was negotiating with the Palestinians. Either way, nobody is admitting to any of the incitement that preceded Yitzhak Rabin's assassination
The Oslo Accords have given Israel another 25 years at least of uncontrolled settlement activity and brutal occupation
Since the Oslo Accords were signed 25 years ago, no Israeli leader has believed strongly enough in them to enable progress toward a final status accord
Joel Singer, who drafted the accords, left Israel broken-hearted in the wake of Rabin’s assassination. He tells Haaretz about the missed opportunities and calls on the current government not to destroy the foundations of a future peace deal
What has the right built other than real estate and bypass roads on stolen land? Let them show us one bridge of peace, one bit of infrastructure for coexistence
Should we not focus on the handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, the man who would betray him and destroy in the blood and fire of terror attacks the agreement that he had just signed with him?
Without a focal point around which to unite the whole left against the whole right, without a real war that could call all the camps to their flags, the political brigades have disintegrated into independent militias
Israel approved the visit, which did not include entry into the area where Jewish settlers live
A new documentary shows quite well how Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres were the heroes of Oslo but also its criminals: Their missed opportunity, rooted chiefly in their cowardice, is unforgivable
Investigation began after expose in which Ezra Nawi was filmed bragging of handing Palestinians who sold land to Jewish settlers over to Palestinian forces for punishment
The film describes the activity behind the scenes of the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The U.S. cable network will air the film to mark the 25th anniversary of the Oslo Accords