Oslo accords

Israel’s policy on the future of Gaza, West Bank - opinion

But what is Israel’s long-term policy in the Gaza Strip? There was short-lived enthusiasm both by Netanyahu and the rest of the government about Trump’s Middle East Riviera program in Feb 2025.

|BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the State Comptroller elections at the plenum of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 3, 2026.
THE 1993 OSLO Accords between Israel and the PLO were signed in Washington, with a beaming president Bill Clinton presiding over the White House ceremony

Can the Oslo Accords model still deliver peace after October 7? - opinion

Three decades after Oslo, regional turmoil, terrorism, and international pressure challenge its negotiation-based model.

|ByALAN BAKER
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich gives a Jerusalem Day address, May 14, 2026.

WATCH: 'All of Israel is ours': Smotrich calls to annex West Bank in Jerusalem Day speech

"The time has come for us to finally erase the lines that distinguish between Areas A, B, and C, the entire Land of Israel is ours," Smotrich said at the Religious Zionist Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva.

|ByANNA BARSKY
FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of the vote on the state budget at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 29, 2026.

Smotrich: US supports Israeli West Bank settlement expansion - interview

In past efforts by Israel to expand control in the West Bank, the US has called for maintaining stability in the area, adding that US President Donald Trump has not backed total annexation.

|ByKESHET NEEV

'Oslo is dead': Right-wing ministers, MKs call for return to Gaza settlements

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called Sunday for an immediate return to Gaza settlements and "correction" of the Oslo Accords.

JANUARY 28, 2024ByJUDITH SUDILOVSKY
Samaria Regional Council Head Yossi Dagan pictured at Jerusalem International Convention Center, January 28.

Five words for when the war ends

For us to move forward as a nation, we will need to heal our collective souls and ensure that we do not slip back into the kind of civil strife we experienced in the first nine months of 2023.

JANUARY 10, 2024BySHERWIN POMERANTZ
ACCORDING TO the writer, those who supported the pullout from Gaza in 2005 need to say to those who warned us of what might happen: ‘I’m sorry, you were right!’

Palestinian demilitarization is just a myth - opinion

My conclusion is that demilitarization is a myth. In any territory evacuated by Israel, it is neither possible to enforce nor reasonable to expect that.

DECEMBER 30, 2023ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
ARMED PALESTINIANS show their presence in Tulkarm, in the West Bank, last week. Demilitarization is a myth; it is neither possible to enforce nor reasonable to expect in any territory evacuated by Israel, says the writer.

Israel-Hamas War: Making peace based on past experience - opinion

The rich experiences and detailed plans of predecessors can guide both the Israeli and the Palestinian people to a workable plan for the peaceful resolution of our conflict.

DECEMBER 23, 2023BySTANLEY RINGLER
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat (third right) gestures toward prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (third left) as US president Bill Clinton (center) stands between them, after the signing of the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993.

Students for terror have no place on campus - opinion

We must condemn praising antisemitic terror on campuses.

DECEMBER 14, 2023ByLIORA REZ
‘COLLEGE IS supposed to promote greater acceptance, knowledge, and understanding – not hate and willful ignorance,’ the writer maintains.

Lapid: Netanyahu equating Oslo, Oct. 7 deaths is an 'evil campaign'

Opposition leader Yair Lapid criticizes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for equating the victims of Oslo Accords with those of October 7, calling his campaign detached and cynical.

DECEMBER 12, 2023ByTAL SHALEV/WALLA
Yesh Atid head MK Yair Lapid speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on October 26, 2023.

After the war: A two-state solution? - opinion

The phrase “two-state solution” is constantly being repeated, but is it realistic?

DECEMBER 6, 2023ByALAN BAKER
PALESTINIANS WAVE Hamas flags in the West Bank in solidarity with Gaza. Calls to restore the PA as the governing entity in Gaza are no less naïve than calls for a ‘two-state solution,’ argues the writer.

Norway says exploring how to revive Israel-Palestinian diplomatic channel

Barth Eide said it was possible that out of this "terrible dramatic situation" happening in Gaza today.

NOVEMBER 6, 2023ByREUTERS
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and PA head Mahmoud Abbas shake hands at the funeral of Shimon Peres on Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, in 2016.

The international community's blind addiction to the PA must be stopped

The current PA is immature and unable to meet the challenge at this time, and hence we must not stumble in our blindness.

OCTOBER 24, 2023ByKOBI MICHAEL, ORI WERTMAN
EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Abdel Fattah al-Sisi greets PA head Mahmoud Abbas at an international summit for Middle East peace in the New Administrative Capital, east of Cairo

Settler goals can't coexist with a Jewish-majority democracy - opinion

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin sent a message to the liberal front: Peace with your neighbors means war with your brothers.

OCTOBER 20, 2023BySAMUEL J. HYDE
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as US president Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.