Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jerusalem, as the Israeli Cabinet voted its approval of the peace plan that had been secretly worked out with P.L.O. negotiators in Oslo, thousands of right-wing Israelis blocked the streets around government buildings and shouted their opposition to any compromise with terrorists. When demonstrators turned violent, police quelled them with water cannons, then bodily hauled away troublemakers...
...those who support the Oslo agreement, even if halfheartedly, the new Declaration of Principles provides the only ladder available to climb out of a status quo both sides have been finding more and more intolerable. The plan comes in two parts: first, a framework for interim Palestinian self-rule on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip; and second, the agreement, still being negotiated, on mutual recognition and an end to the warfare between Israel and the P.L.O...
...negotiators jumped at the chance. Hirschfeld and Pundak, together with the Palestinians led by Kriah, headed for Oslo in January. During the next eight months, they met 14 times in sessions lasting two to three days. Ushered through on separate flights so they would not be recognized, the delegates were escorted at high speed by the Norwegian police to rendezvous points in and outside the capital. In January it was a wood-paneled 19th century rural estate, later a hotel near one of the capital's busiest intersections, a rural farmhouse and even the private residence of Foreign Minister Johan...
Rabin, who was also entertaining feelers from the Palestinians by way of Egypt, remained cautious about the talks. But by March, Rabin authorized Peres to keep close but still unofficial tabs on what was being called the "Oslo Channel." By then, the Knesset had repealed the law prohibiting Israelis from meeting with the P.L.O...
...book), the document was finally ready. Says Pundak: "We drafted, drafted and redrafted. But even at the worst times, personal relations did not change. We always found a way to continue in good spirit." On Aug. 20, Peres witnessed the initialing of the declaration of principles in Oslo. Kriah and a P.L.O. colleague signed for the Palestinian delegation, while Savir and Singer initialed for the Israelis...