The turning point for normalization was in 1993, not 2020 – opinion
The major shift in relations with the Arab world took place in the wake of the Oslo Accords.
FOREIGN MINISTER Shimon Peres signs the Israel-PLO peace accord, watched by PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and US president Bill Clinton, at the White House in Washington, DC, September 13, 1993.(photo credit: GARY HERSHORN/REUTERS)BySHIMON SHAMIR, ELIE PODEH