Twenty-five years on, the Oslo Accords are dead
6 min readSep 6, 2018
Next week marks the 25th anniversary of the Oslo Accords when then Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed an agreement outlining a timeframe for a lasting Middle Eastern peace process. In a now infamous photo, Arafat and then Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on September 13, 1993, on the lawns of the White House, overlooked by a congratulatory Bill…