Remembering Oslo
Twenty years ago to the day on Friday, I stood at the South Lawn of the White House and saw history in the making. Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli general who had been fighting the Arabs all his adult life, and Yasser Arafat, whose Palestine Liberation Organization had worked to destroy Israel, shook hands in front of an amazed and jubilant world.
To say that the Oslo agreement came as a surprise to me would be an understatement. It was a shock. Like all other Israeli officials (I was the government spokesman), I had been parroting the mantra that we would never speak with the P.L.O.… Seguir leyendo »