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...stressed that the important question facing the Middle East today is, "Can the principles annunciated at Oslo [in the Oslo Accords] come to fruition...
...planned to scare up a majority by retreading his 1996 strategy of invoking a Palestinian menace -- his campaign is even running TV ads filled with gruesome footage from pre-1996 suicide bombings -- but voters don't appear to be taking the bait. Israelis have become accustomed, since the Oslo Agreement came unstuck in 1996, to a permanent state of low-level crisis in their relations with the Palestinians. "For the voters, this election is not about the peace process," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. And that's left Netanyahu flailing...
Ross cited the Oslo Conference in 1993 as a major impetus in changing Arab-Israeli relations...
...accord. But for many years afterward, Hussein played a pivotal role, often behind the scenes, in diplomacy to achieve a comprehensive peace. Besides conducting secret negotiations with Israeli leaders for years, he became a crucial partner of the Palestinians at the 1991 Madrid talks that led to the 1993 Oslo accords. In 1994 he fulfilled a long-standing ambition by negotiating Jordan's peace treaty with Israel...
...seemed a world away from Israel politically. The distance and the military controls continued through the Gulf War, when Jordan chose to side with Iraq; only in the messy political aftermath of that decision--and when the dreams of the Pales-tinians came a step closer to reality at Oslo--could King Hussein turn to Israel and to the West to try again...