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An assessment of the landmark Oslo Accords of 1993 more than two decades on
Twenty years have passed since Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization concluded the Oslo Accords, or Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements for Palestine. It was declared “a political breakthrough of immense importance.” Israel officially accepted the PLO as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and the PLO recognized the right of Israel to exist.
Critical views were voiced at the time about how the self-government established under the leadership of Yasser Arafat created a Palestinian-administered Israeli occupation, rather than paving the way towards an independent Palestinian state with substantial economic funding from the international community.
Through a number of essays written by renowned scholars and practitioners, the two decades since the Oslo Accords are scrutinized from a wide range of perspectives. Did the agreement have a reasonable chance of success? What went wrong, causing the treaty to derail and delay a real, workable solution? What are the recommendations today to show a way forward for the Israelis and the Palestinians?
"This collection of essays analyses the 1993 agreement between the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat and the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. It was published originally in 2013 as an e-book to mark the 20th anniversary of the Accords. Although hailed at the time as a historic milestone in the Palestinian bid for statehood, the 22 essays in the volume offer a critical examination of the famous deal by some of the leading authorities on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Contributions from the likes of Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, Richard Falk and others from the worlds of politics, academia, activism, journalism and law offer readers a wide range of analysis. The book traces the long struggle for Palestinian statehood and neatly summarises the political context preceding the signing of the Accords on the White House lawn in 1993. It includes details of the various declarations of principals within the original and subsequent (1995) Accords known as Oslo Two, and then examines the consequences of the agreement."—Middle East Monitor
Petter Bauck is a senior conflict adviser. He has published several books and articles on Eritrea and Afghanistan. He served as deputy head of the Norwegian Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority from 2000 to 2003, and currently works with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.
Mohammed Omer is a Palestinian journalist, reporting for numerous newspapers and journals in the USA, Scandinavia, and Germany, including The Nation, Al Jazeera, Aftonbladet, Junge Welt and The Electronic Intifada. He is a recipient of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
Foreword
Foreword
Introduction
1. The Oslo Accords: Their Context, Their Consequences
2. Revisiting 1967: The False Paradigm of Peace, Partition, and Parity
3. Champions of Peace? Tools in Whose Hands? Norwegians and Peace Brokering in the Middle East
4. The Illusion of Palestinian Sovereignty
5. The Oslo Accords and Palestinian Civil Society
6. "We Have Opened Doors; Others Have Been Closed": Women under the Oslo Accords
7. After Oslo: A Legal Historical Perspective
8. A Legal Perspective on Oslo
9. The Oslo Accords: A Common Savior for Israel and the PLO in Exile?
10. Out of the Ashes of Oslo: The Rise of Islamism and the Fall of Favoritism
11. Hamas in Transition: The Failure of Sanctions
12. Palestinian Prisoners from Oslo to Annapolis
13. Some Gaza Impressions, Over Two Decades after Oslo
14. The Shattered Dream
15. Palestinian Identity in the Aftermath of Oslo
16. Israeli Impunity
17. Public and Primary Healthcare before and after the Oslo Accords: A Personal Reflection
18. Facts in the Air: Palestinian Media Expression since Oslo
19. Networking Palestine: The Development and Limitations of Television and Telecommunications since 1993
20. The European Union and Israel since Oslo
21. A War of Ideas: The American Media on Israel and Palestine post Oslo
22. Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Abuses under Oslo