Oslo accords

Europe struggles to matter in a chaotic Middle East today - opinion

Once a key player, Europe now risks being viewed as a marginal player in the Middle East.

|BySHARON PARDO
European Union, Israeli and German flags flutter near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, September 5, 2022
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office, January 27, 2026.

'Bibi’s War': The high stakes of Israel's fight against Hamas - opinion

The Israel-Hamas War began when the Muslim Brotherhood founded Hamas in 1988, during the First Intifada. Hamas’s primary and immediate goal was to prevent any acceptance of Israel.

|ByMOSHE DANN
An Israeli flag flutters, with Ma'aleh Adumim is visible in the background, in the West Bank, August 14, 2025.

Myth that won’t die: The false link between settlements and Palestinian violence - opinion

Jews are not the instigators, motivators, or causes of Palestinian violence; the tragic cycle of violence and terrorism stems entirely from the Palestinians’ own choices.

|ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
A Palestinian man walks past a fence decorated with Israeli flags installed by Jewish settlers in the northern West Bank. The de facto annexation of the West Bank is the natural byproduct of a political system where words are cheap and real power operates without transparency, the writer says.

Israel creeps toward West Bank annexation as election season approaches - opinion

The de facto annexation of the West Bank is the natural byproduct of a political system where words are cheap and real power operates without transparency.

|ByYAAKOV KATZ

Why Israel should not trust Syria’s new leadership, or the peace being promised - opinion

Every time Israel has traded land for peace with enemies still committed to our destruction, we have paid in blood.

JULY 6, 2025ByAVI ABELOW
SYRIA’S INTERIM President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends a celebration marking Syria’s liberation, in Aleppo, in May. This is not a man seeking peace, the writer warns.

Dan Diker, Jason Greenblatt: Giving Arafat Nobel Prize harmed Israel’s fight against terror

"Oslo, in our view, was one of the greatest strategic catastrophes, maybe the greatest strategic catastrophe since the founding of the State of Israel.”

MAY 19, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Dr. Dan Diker, President of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs and Jason Greenblatt, Senior Director for Arab-Israeli Diplomacy at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.

Netanyahu’s climb and collapse: Diplomacy, power, and miscalculation - opinion

Benjamin Netanyahu rose as a skilled statesman but fell due to political missteps and strained US ties, failing to navigate Palestinian realities and shifting American politics.

MAY 16, 2025ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, reads a report during a speech to the UN Security Council in January, 1988.

Oslo Accords official admits failure, retains hope for Israeli-Palestinian peace - interview

French President Emmanuel Macron’s envoy Ofer Bronchtein speaks to JPost's Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein on the Oslo accords, antisemitism in Europe, and his hopes for peace.

MARCH 24, 2025ByZVIKA KLEIN, REUVEN REMEZ
Oslo Accords

Jimmy Carter's checkered relations with Israel and Jews

Dr. Kenneth Stein, former Middle East Fellow of the Carter Center from 1982-2006 and Carter’s primary Middle East adviser until 1994, gives a unique perspective on the former president's legacy.

DECEMBER 30, 2024ByDR. KENNETH STEIN
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, US President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the signing ceremony of the Egyptian - Israeli Treaty, White House lawn, March 26, 1979.

Mahmoud Abbas reveals his true colors - opinion

If Abbas wanted peace, he would have said that Shubaki was wrong to participate in terror attacks, serve as a terrorist leader, or purchase tons of weapons.

DECEMBER 30, 2024ByMOSHE PHILLIPS
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin greets Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, in October. If you want to know what Abbas really thinks about Israel, peace, and terrorism, just read his eulogy for Fuad Shubaki, says the writer.

How Jerusalem’s inaction fueled the ICC’s anti-Israel agenda – opinion

How Palestinian manipulation and ICC bias led to arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.

DECEMBER 3, 2024ByMAURICE HIRSCH
RIYAD MANSOUR, permanent Palestinian observer to the UN, addresses the Security Council on the situation in Gaza last month. In 2012, when the Palestinians asked the UN to recognize the ‘State of Palestine,’ Israel should have declared that it was a breach of the Oslo Accords, the writer argues.

Oslo's environmental, feminine choice, 20 years later - opinion

Last weekend, the 14th conference by Democracy Today was held in Yerevan, Armenia, titled "From Global Insecurity to Common Security - Women's Role in Peacemaking." 

NOVEMBER 20, 2024ByCARMIT LUBANOV

The tax trap: Israel’s tax money is funding the Palestinian Authority’s pay-for-slay law - analysis

‘We willingly relinquished our fiscal rights in order to buy peace, but we are not getting what we are paying for,’ says Maurice Hirsch, Director of the Initiative for Palestinian Authority

NOVEMBER 7, 2024ByOHAD MERLIN
Maurice Hirsch

On this day: 29 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

While officials hold an annual commemoration for Rabin on Mount Herzl, the surviving family of the visionary told Ynet they were requesting that this year’s be cancelled due to the war.

NOVEMBER 4, 2024ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and then-foreign minister Shimon Peres attend a Labor Party meeting in 1993. Rabin had been kept in the dark by Peres about the talks in Oslo, the writer asserts.