Coming Full Circle: The Era of Oslo / The Decline of the Oslo Process
In 1993 and 1995, respectively, these agreements took place in Norway.
What is Oslo I and Oslo II?
In 1979, which accords did Israel and Egypt sign?
What is Camp David Accords?
This Palestinian group won the 2006 legislative elections, deepening divisions within Palestinian politics.
What is Hamas?
These two ideas were fundamental to George H. W. Bush’s “New World Order”.
What is multilateralism and globalization?
This Israeli opposition leader’s visit to the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif is commonly cited as the immediate trigger of the Second Intifada. This leader fought in all the Arab-Israeli wars and was a commander of Unit 101.
Who is Ariel Sharon?
After violent clashes between Hamas and Fatah in 2007, this Palestinian territory came under Hamas control, while the West Bank remained under Fatah authority.
What is Gaza?
After the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, who did the Israelis elect as prime minister and what was his stance on the Oslo Accords?
Who is Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition?
Which attack finished off the New World Order, which had been languishing anyway under the drift of the Clinton administration and its uneven response to the horrors of Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo.
What is the al-Qaeda attack?
This administration cut all funding for UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees), which included $200 billion in aid to Palestinian health, education, and medical programs.
What is the Trump Administration?
Name one action associated with Oslo II.
What is I. the division of West Bank into territories under Israeli, Palestinian Authority, and shared control, II. the expansion of “bypass roads” to connect Israeli settlements?
Why did the Israelis launch furious air strikes on both Gaza and Lebanon, followed by ground assaults?
What is the kidnapping of their soldiers?
The peaceful march of Gazans to the separation barrier, demanding their right of return and an end to the blockade of Gaza, that was met by lethal Israeli firepower.
What is the “Great March of Return”?
This Palestinian poet wrote these lines (“We couldn’t break the siege / So let us surrender the keys of our paradise / To the Minister of Peace / And survive.”) in response to the Oslo Accords.
Who is Mahmoud Darwish?
Palestinians, human rights groups, and most of the international community have condemned the construction of the barrier for a number of reasons— give at least one.
What is I. they complained that the barrier establishes new facts on the ground that, if the diplomatic process ever recommenced, would mark a revised starting point for Israeli negotiators, 2. building the fence requires the uprooting of Palestinians, the confiscation of their lands, and the serving of villages from lands under cultivation?
In January 2013 the Palestinian Authority officially declared itself the State of Palestine, with this man as their first president.
What is Mahmoud Abbas?