Oslo Accords: 20 years to "desconseguir" the peace

The photograph is engraved in the collective memory: represents one of the featured events in history books. On 13 September 1993, the Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and the representative of the PLO, Yasser Arafat, signed the Oslo accords under the auspices of the u.s. President, Bill Clinton, large craftsman of the approach.

Bill Clinton:

"With our hearts, our souls say: shalom, salaam, peace."

The groundwork for the autonomy of a State of Palestine have been established, although they have been many loose ends unresolved between the eternal enemies, but nothing prevented the hope to achieve someday, peace.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin:

"We fought against you, the Palestinians, we say to them today with voice clear and strong: no more blood and tears. Simply. “

President of the Organization of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, thanked:

“Thank you, thank you, thank you”

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a year later, the two leaders promised to look at the future with confidence. After 27 years of exile, Arafat returned to Gaza and was welcomed as a hero. At least for a part of the Palestinians.

As for israelistas, not everyone was in accordance with the commitments that Rabin had assumed with the Palestinians. The November 4 doe 95, two years after Oslo, Rabin was assassinated after a rally, by a young Israeli extreme right. This death thrilled the world and marked the end of a page in history.

Although most want peace, drafted in Oslo, in both camps there are who are not provisions to make concessions, both on the street and in government offices. Failure after failure, the peace process has lost his breath and stumbled over and over again on the thorniest issues, avoided in Oslo: the Jewish settlements, the status of Jerusalem.

Installed a climate of tension that reached the point of vourself in 2000, after the visit, considered provocative, of Ariel Sharon to the Esplanade of the mosques. The outbreak of the second Intifada.

The violence has taken over the agenda, and hopes attenuate. the Israelis built a separation wall, baptized by the Palestinians as a wall of shame. The construction of itensificou settlements.The Palestinians then.

The conflict almost falls into oblivion until the symbolic victory of November 2012 at the UN.

Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President

"The international community took the opportunity to defend the two-State solution."

With a large majority, the Palestinian Authority was accepted as an observer at the United Nations, which was considered the first step for the recognition.

But then there was no sequel, nothing has changed, really, in the last 20 years. the Oslo agreements, which hopes of peace raised in a generation are reduced to a historical landmark, quite maginalizado by Israelis and Palestinians.

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