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The Palestine Liberation Organization. Mr. Chairman, In response to your letter of September 9, 1993, I wish to confirm to you that, in light of the PLO commitments included in your letter, the Government of Israel has decided to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people and commence negotiations with the PLO within the ...
Mediated talks between the Israeli government and the PLO in 1993 (the Oslo I Accord) resulted in the PLO recognizing Israel's right to exist in peace and accepting United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 ("inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East in which ...
The Oslo Accords are a pair of interim agreements between Israel and the PLO, signed in 1993 and 1995, that aimed to achieve a peace treaty based on UN resolutions. They involved mutual recognition, Palestinian self-governance, and negotiations on final status issues, but faced many challenges and opposition.
The Oslo I Accord was the first face-to-face agreement between Israel and the PLO, signed in Washington in 1993 with U.S. President Bill Clinton as a witness. It established a Palestinian interim self-government and a framework for permanent status negotiations on major issues such as Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, and borders.
Israel would invade Lebanon the following year in an attempt to undermine the PLO as a political organization, weakening Palestinian nationalism and facilitating the annexation of the West Bank into Greater Israel. [9] While the PLO had adopted a program of pursuing a Palestinian state alongside Israel since the mid 1970s, the 1988 Palestinian ...
Israel attempted to rescue the captured, and five more soldiers were killed. Israel's military responded, and the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict began. The conflict resulted in the deaths of 1,191 Lebanese people and 165 Israelis. [107] Of the Israelis killed, 121 were soldiers and 44 were civilians. [108]
PLO's Ten Point Program (in Arabic: برنامج النقاط العشر) (by Israel called the PLO's Phased Plan) is the plan accepted by the Palestinian National Council (PNC), the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), at its 12th meeting held in Cairo on 8 June 1974.
During the years following operation Litani, many diplomatic efforts were made which tried to end the war on the Israeli–Lebanese border, including the effort of Philip Habib, the emissary of Ronald Reagan who in the summer of 1981 managed to arrange a lasting cease-fire between Israel and the PLO which lasted about a year. Israel ended the ...