While Israeli and Palestinian veterans were able to lay the foundation for mutual recognition between the State of Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in the 1993 Oslo Accords, they haven’t been able to complete the job by ending the occupation and achieving peace based upon mutual recognition between two states: Israel and Palestine living side by side along the June 4, 1967 borders. Twenty-eight years later, the occupation continues, the settlement enterprise is expanding, the 1967 borders known as the Green Line are fading, and the dual legal system and the deprivation of Palestinians of their rights has created an increasingly apartheid-like reality in the occupied West Bank.
In the recent unprecedented fourth round of, and once again inconclusive, Israeli elections, the occupation and Israeli-Palestinian relations were simply not on the agenda. The focus was on “Bibi yes or no” and how to deal wi
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