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Israeli newspaper announces: "Israel Recognizes the PLO"...
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Israeli newspaper announces: "Israel Recognizes the PLO"...

Item # 715844 ·
THE JERUSALEM POST, Israel, Sept. 10, 1993  The banner headline announces: "ISRAEL RECOGNIZES THE PLO" and: "Arafat Accepts Israel's Right to Exist in Peace and Security' with related subheads. The front page photo features Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
Sixteen pages, very nice condition.

Background: The mutual recognition between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on September 10, 1993, marked a seismic paradigm shift in the modern Middle East by fundamentally transforming a decades-long existential conflict into a political negotiation. By officially recognizing the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people, and in turn securing Yasser Arafat’s formal renunciation of terrorism and explicit acceptance of Israel’s right to exist in peace and security, both sides dismantled long-standing ideological taboos. This diplomatic breakthrough, engineered in large part by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, shattered the absolute rejectionism that had characterized Arab-Israeli relations since 1948 and served as the indispensable catalyst for the Oslo Accords signed days later on the White House lawn. Although the subsequent peace process ultimately stalled and faced profound violent disruptions in the decades that followed, this specific event permanently altered the geopolitical landscape, establishing the "two-state solution" framework and proving that the most entrenched adversaries could choose the path of mutual diplomacy over total denial.
Category: The 20th Century
Price
$58
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.