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The year is 1993. Night-time. September 13 (The Oslo Agreement is signed in Washington - Rabin-Arafat handshake takes place during this night). The remains of a deserted Nahal settlement with ...

Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's greatest war leader, and Yasser Arafat, the human embodiment of Palestinian hopes for freedom, signed documents promising to negotiate the future, not fight for it.

a shrine to past peace plans with pictures fading on his walls of Arafat, Bill Clinton and the murdered Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Was Israel prepared to risk killing Uri Avnery?

The PA was established as an interim Palestinian government under the 1993 Oslo Accords, which then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed with Arafat. The PA was originally conceived to ...