OSLO PROCESS. 20 YEARS OF OSLO
TWENTY YEARS have passed since the celebrated Arafat-Rabin handshake on the White House lawn. Twenty years have passed since the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority. Twenty years have passed since the formal start of the peace process. This year marks twenty years of shattered hopes and unfulfilled obligations, of promises betrayed and an illegal colonization process that not only continues to intensify, but has inched us ever closer towards permanently ending any hope for a peacefully negotiated two-state solution. On September 13th, 1993 the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements between Israel and the PLO (“Oslo I”) was signed. However, Israeli bulldozers kept bulldozing, and with every illegally placed stone, the hope for peace faded. Since 1993, Israeli settlers have tripled in number, their settlements choking and separating East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank and fragmenting the West Bank itself into loosely connected cantons. This publication spells out how the OSLO PROCESS metamorphosed into a process of colonization, taking us ever further from a just and lasting solution to this conflict.
Content of the publication:
1. Palestine Timeline (including Peace Process)
2. Oslo Explained
3. Palestine Status in 1993
4. Summary of Israeli Violations
5. Facts on the Ground by 2013
6. Jerusalem in Focus
7. Maps
8. Statement by Dr. Saeb Erekat.
Palestine Liberation Organization – Negotiations Affairs Department
September 12, 2013