The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP), were finalized in Oslo, Norway on August 20, 1993, and subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington D.C. on September 13, 1993, with Yasser Arafat signing for the Palestine Liberation Organization and Shimon Peres signing for the State of Israel. It was witnessed by Warren Christopher for the United States and Andrei Kozyrev for Russia, in the presence of US President Bill Clinton and Israel's Prime Minister Y ...

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• Oslo Accords - Background
• Oslo Accords - Principles of the Accords
• Oslo Accords - Annexes of the accords
• Oslo Accords - Agreed minutes of the accords
• Oslo Accords - The acceptance of the accords by the two peoples
• Oslo Accords - Subsequent negotiations
• Oslo Accords - Oslo 2
• Oslo Accords - Additional agreements
• Oslo Accords - Fate of the accords
• Oslo Accords - Loss of credibility
• Oslo Accords - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties
• Oslo Accords - Issues
• Oslo Accords - People

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In essence, the accords call for withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank and affirm the Palestinian right to self-government within those areas through the creation of the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian rule would last for a five year interim period during which a permanent agreement would be negotiated (beginning not later than May 1996). Permanent issues such as Jerusalem, refugees, Israeli settlements in the area, security and borders were deliberately excluded from the Accords and left to be decided ...

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Oslo Accords, Oslo Accords - Background, Oslo Accords - Principles of the Accords, Oslo Accords - Annexes of the accords, Oslo Accords - Agreed minutes of the accords, Oslo Accords - The acceptance of the accords by the two peoples, Oslo Accords - Subsequent negotiations, Oslo Accords - Oslo 2, Oslo Accords - Additional agreements, Oslo Accords - Fate of the accords, Oslo Accords - Loss of credibility, Oslo Accords - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties, Oslo Accords - Issues, Oslo Accords - People

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1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. 1996 - Events. January 5 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. January 7 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states, killing more than 100. January 8 - Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital Kinshasa ...

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• 1996 - Events
• 1996 - February
• 1996 - March
• 1996 - April
• 1996 - May
• 1996 - June
• 1996 - July
• 1996 - August
• 1996 - September
• 1996 - October
• 1996 - November
• 1996 - December
• 1996 - Environmental change
• 1996 - Unknown date
• 1996 - Births
• 1996 - Deaths
• 1996 - January-February
• 1996 - March-June
• 1996 - July-December
• 1996 - Nobel Prizes
• 1996 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• 1996 - Templeton Prize
• 1996 - Right Livelihood Award

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The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. The two agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. Sadat also said he wanted them to be called the Carter Accords. Camp David Accords 1978 - Background. Upon assuming office on January 20, 1977, President Carter moved to rejuvenate the Middle Eastern ...

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• Camp David Accords 1978 - Background
• Camp David Accords 1978 - The Sadat Peace Initiative
• Camp David Accords 1978 - The talks
• Camp David Accords 1978 - Terms of the agreements
• Camp David Accords 1978 - Consequences
• Camp David Accords 1978 - Related articles
• Camp David Accords 1978 - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties

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The majority of Beilin's political career, from 1977 until 2003 is associated with the Labour party. He served as its spokesman from 1977 until 1984, at which point his career in the public service began. He was a Cabinet Secretary until 1986 and a Director General of the Foreign Ministry until 1986-1988. In 1988 he was elected to the Knesset in which he was to serve until 1999. During this period he was Deputy Finance Minister (1988-1990) and Deputy Foreign Minister (1992-1995) under Shimon Peres. Following that he served in two minor minis ...

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Yossi Beilin, Yossi Beilin - Political Career, Yossi Beilin - Public perception

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According to the Norse sagas, Oslo was founded around 1048 by king Harald Hardråde. Recent archaeological research has uncovered Christian burials from before 1000, evidence of a preceding urban settlement. This called for the celebration of Oslo's millennium in 2000. The origin of the name is still somewhat unclear. While "-lo" almost certainly means "lee" or "harbour", "os" may have several connotations, including one of the norse pantheons, a river mouth or a hillside. It has been regarded as the capital city since the reign of Håkon V ...

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Oslo, Oslo - Physical environment, Oslo - History, Oslo - Some points of interest, Oslo - Institutions of higher learning, Oslo - Communications, Oslo - Air, Oslo - Sea, Oslo - Train, Oslo - Local public transport, Oslo - Administration, Oslo - Media, Oslo - Sports, Oslo - Historical population, Oslo - Born in Oslo

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The State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל ▶ (help·info); Medinat Yisra'el; Arabic: دَوْلَةْ إِسْرَائِيل, Dawlat Isrā'īl) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a parliamentary democracy and the world's only Jewish state. The name "Israel" is rooted in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, wherein Jacob is renamed Israel after wrestling with a mysterious adversary ("a man", and later "God" according to Genesis 32:24- ...

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• Israel - History
• Israel - Historical roots
• Israel - Zionism and Aliyah
• Israel - Establishment of the State
• Israel - War of Independence
• Israel - Continuing immigration
• Israel - Subsequent wars
• Israel - Articles related to the wars
• Israel - Politics and law
• Israel - Legislature
• Israel - Constitution and Legal System
• Israel - Judiciary
• Israel - Military
• Israel - Geography
• Israel - Metropolitan areas
• Israel - Economy
• Israel - Demographics
• Israel - Children's welfare
• Israel - Religion in Israel
• Israel - Culture and religion
• Israel - Footnotes
• Israel - Annotated List of Israeli Media Sources

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This entry contains a timeline of the development of Judaism and the Jewish people. Note that all dates are given according to the Common Era (Christian), not the Jewish calendar. For more detailed information on Jewish history, including links to individual country histories, see Jewish history. Timeline of Jewish history - Biblical history. A separate article exists on the timeline of Biblical characters and the Israelites. See the entry on the history of ancient Israel and Judah. Note, however, that the ...

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• Timeline of Jewish history - Biblical history
• Timeline of Jewish history - Post Biblical-history
• Timeline of Jewish history - 200 BCE to 700 CE
• Timeline of Jewish history - 701 to 1500
• Timeline of Jewish history - 1501 to 1800
• Timeline of Jewish history - 1801 to 1900
• Timeline of Jewish history - 1901 to 1945
• Timeline of Jewish history - 1946 to Today

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Palestinian National Authority This article is part of the series: Politics of the Palestinian National Authority President: Mahmoud Abbas Prime Minister: Nabil Shaath Palestinian Legislative Council PLO List of political parties Elections: President: 2005 Legislative: 2006 Oslo Accords Al-Aqsa Intifada St ...

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• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Prior events
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Timeline
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2000
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2001
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2002
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2003
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2004
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2005
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Tactics
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Palestinians
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Israel
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - The West Bank barrier
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - International Involvement
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Effects on Oslo Accords
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Economic and human costs

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Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات‎) (August 4 or August 24, 1929 – November 11, 2004), born Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني) and also known by the kunya Abu `Ammar (أبو عمّار), was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004); President1 of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004 ...

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• Yasser Arafat - Early life
• Yasser Arafat - Fatah and the PLO
• Yasser Arafat - Jordan
• Yasser Arafat - Lebanon
• Yasser Arafat - Tunisia
• Yasser Arafat - Palestinian Authority and peace negotiations
• Yasser Arafat - Political survival and marginalization
• Yasser Arafat - Financial dealings
• Yasser Arafat - Illness and death
• Yasser Arafat - Aftermath
• Yasser Arafat - Bibliography
• Yasser Arafat - Notes

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The West Bank is a landlocked territory not recognized as a de jure part of any sovereign country. The West Bank is considered by the United Nations and most countries as currently occupied by Israel, though some Israelis and various other groups prefer to refer to it as "disputed" rather than "occupied" territory. Its borders were defined by the 1948 Arab-Israeli War armistice lines after the dissolution of the British mandate of Palestine, when it was captured and annexed by Jordan. From 1948 until 1967 the area was under Jor ...

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• West Bank - Demographics of the West Bank
• West Bank - Cities in the West Bank
• West Bank - Origin of the name
• West Bank - Political terminology
• West Bank - Status
• West Bank - History
• West Bank - Transport and communication
• West Bank - Higher Education

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Since the failure of the Camp David Accords in the summer of 2000, many acts of militancy were committed by individuals, militant Palestinian groups, and members of the Palestinian Authority against Israeli civilians. This is a partial chronology of actions resulting in deaths during the al-Aqsa Intifada: 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 Prior acts of Palestinian militancy are omitted from this page. See Militancy against Israel before 2000. Terrorism against Israel - Early history. ...

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• Terrorism against Israel - Early history
• Terrorism against Israel - After 1967
• Terrorism against Israel - The First Intifada
• Terrorism against Israel - The Palestinian Authority
• Terrorism against Israel - The al-Aqsa Intifada
• Terrorism against Israel - Discussion of terrorism against Israel during the al-Aqsa Intifada

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Amos Oz (born May 4, 1939), birth name Amos Klausner, is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. Since 1967, he has been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Amos Oz - Life. He was born in Jerusalem, where he grew up at No. 18 Amos Street in the Kerem Avraham neighborhood. Roughly half of his fiction is set within a mile of where he grew up. His parents, Yehuda Arieh Klausne ...

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• Amos Oz - Life
• Amos Oz - Works
• Amos Oz - Politics

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Yitzhak Rabin ▶ (help·info) (or Yitschak Rabin) (יצחק רבין in Hebrew), (March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel from 1974 until 1977 and again from 1992 until his assassination in 1995 by Yigal Amir, a right-wing activist who had strenuously opposed Rabin's signing of the Oslo Accords. He was the first local-born Prime Minister of Israel, the only Prime Minister ...

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• Yitzhak Rabin - Youth and service in the Palmach
• Yitzhak Rabin - IDF service
• Yitzhak Rabin - Ambassador and Minister of Labor
• Yitzhak Rabin - First term as prime minister
• Yitzhak Rabin - Opposition member and minister of defence
• Yitzhak Rabin - Second term as prime minister
• Yitzhak Rabin - Assassination and aftermath

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The First Intifada refers to a series of violent incidents between Palestinians and Israelis between 1987 and approximately 1993, when the Oslo accords were signed and the Palestinian National Authority was established. It is also referred to as the "war of the stones." The Second Intifada, also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada, is considered to have been between 2000 and early 2005. The First Intifada is also referred to simply as the Intifada, since that is how it was called before the Second Intifada. Fi ...

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• First Intifada - General Causes
• First Intifada - Series of Preceding Events
• First Intifada - The Uprising
• First Intifada - Outcome

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Daniel Pipes is an American neoconservative [1] columnist, author, counter-terrorism analyst, and scholar of Middle Eastern history. The author or co-author of 18 books, which have been translated into 19 languages, Pipes is both praised and criticized for his outspoken views on Islam and Islamism. Pipes is the founder and director of the Middle East Forum, a former member of the presidentially-appointed board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, and a regular columnist for the New York Sun and The Jerusalem Post. He c ...

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• Daniel Pipes - Background
• Daniel Pipes - Praise and controversy
• Daniel Pipes - Opinions
• Daniel Pipes - Radical Islam
• Daniel Pipes - Arab-Israeli conflict
• Daniel Pipes - The Dangers of occupying Iraq
• Daniel Pipes - Arafat's intentions at Oslo
• Daniel Pipes - On Muslims
• Daniel Pipes - Books and policy papers
• Daniel Pipes - Audio and Video

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Oslo was the host city for the 1952 Winter Olympic Games. Except for the downhill skiing at Norefjell, all events took place within the city limits. The Bislett stadion was used for speed skating events at the Olympics, but in recent years it has been better known for its annual Bislett Games track and field event. The whole Bislett Stadion has been re-built and was formally opened for the Bislett Games on July 29th 2005. Two football teams from Oslo, Vålerenga I.F. Fotball and F.C. Lyn Oslo, play in the N ...

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Oslo, Oslo - Physical environment, Oslo - History, Oslo - Some points of interest, Oslo - Institutions of higher learning, Oslo - Communications, Oslo - Air, Oslo - Sea, Oslo - Train, Oslo - Local public transport, Oslo - Administration, Oslo - Media, Oslo - Sports, Oslo - Historical population, Oslo - Born in Oslo

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Oslo, Oslo - Physical environment, Oslo - History, Oslo - Some points of interest, Oslo - Institutions of higher learning, Oslo - Communications, Oslo - Air, Oslo - Sea, Oslo - Train, Oslo - Local public transport, Oslo - Administration, Oslo - Media, Oslo - Sports, Oslo - Historical population, Oslo - Born in Oslo

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Anti-Zionism is a term used to describe several different political and religious points of view. Anti-Zionist positions have in common some form of opposition to Zionism, but their diversity in terms of motivation and expression is so great that anti-Zionism cannot be seen as a single phenomenon. This article examines opposition to Zionism both historically and as it currently exists. Zionism is variously defined as a Jewish national liberation movement that holds that a Jewish nation has existed for thousands of ...

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• Anti-Zionism - Defining anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Anti-Zionism dictionary definitions
• Anti-Zionism - Types of anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Jewish anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Arab anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Islamist anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Western anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Soviet anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - International anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
• Anti-Zionism - Anti-Zionism and Post-Zionism

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Oslo - Air. Oslo Airport Gardermoen served by high speed train (Flytoget) Sandefjord Airport Torp (Vestfold) Oslo - Sea. There are daily ferry connections to: Kiel (Germany), Copenhagen (Denmark), Frederikshavn (Denmark), Hirtshals (Denmark), Nesodden. Oslo - Train. Oslo Sentralstasjon is the main railway station in Oslo. From there, there are connections in the directions of: Trondheim, ...

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Oslo, Oslo - Physical environment, Oslo - History, Oslo - Some points of interest, Oslo - Institutions of higher learning, Oslo - Communications, Oslo - Air, Oslo - Sea, Oslo - Train, Oslo - Local public transport, Oslo - Administration, Oslo - Media, Oslo - Sports, Oslo - Historical population, Oslo - Born in Oslo

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