From the day it was signed, the Oslo agreements faced determined opponents who sought to subvert it. Yet there is still hope that the vision can be realized.
Things looked very different 30 years ago on Sept. 13, 1993, on the White House lawn. The iconic handshake between historic enemies Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, with President Bill Clinton spreading his arms to draw them together, was an extraordinary moment of hope., named after the secret talks conducted in Norway between the Rabin government and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
For Hamas and secular Palestinian rejectionists, it meant surrendering their land to the Jews. For Hamas, it meant giving up part of the Islamic trust; for the national rejectionists, it meant giving up on the dream of Palestine from the Jordan River to the sea. What created opportunities for rejectionists on both sides is that those who negotiated Oslo had different expectations, and even definitions, for what was being produced. Arafat viewed Oslo as giving birth to a state-in-waiting that could materialize rapidly, while Rabin saw it as a gradual devolution of Israeli authority to Palestinian rule designed to minimize the security risks involved.
Critics of Oslo in Israel ignore that Palestinians launched the first intifada in the years before the agreement. Do they believe that Palestinians would have simply been quiescent for ensuing decades without a peace process? Moreover, Israel’s high-tech-driven prosperity — the World Bank noted that Israel’s per-capita gross domestic product in 2021
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