150 Palestinian prisoners are being released as part of Israel and Hamas’s recent hostage deal. But thousands more remain behind bars.

150 Palestinian prisoners are being released as part of Israel and Hamas’s recent hostage deal. But thousands more remain behind bars.

    • SwingingTheLampEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      Palestine did accept the Oslo accords, and created the Palestinian National Authority under the agreement. Israel reneged on the agreement by allowing continued expansion of settlements.

      • DarkGamer@kbin.social
        42·
        1 year ago

        I was just reading that the Oslo agreements didn’t include a ban on settlements:

        Netanyahu continued construction within existing Israeli settlements, and put forward plans for the construction of a new neighborhood, Har Homa, in East Jerusalem. However, he fell far short of the Shamir government’s 1991–92 level and refrained from building new settlements, although the Oslo agreements stipulated no such ban.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords

        Perhaps you’re thinking of the Wye River Memorandum?

        On 18 December 1998, the Clinton administration and the EU declared their contentment about the implementation of the first phase of the Memorandum by both sides. Israel, however, had only implemented stage 1 of the further redeployment (F.R.D.), meaning that it had withdrawn from 2% of Area C instead of the required 13%. Both parties accused each other of not fulfilling its share of responsibilities under the Wye River Memorandum, and the further implementation of the agreement remained unfinished.

        Each side blames the other for it falling apart.

        • SwingingTheLampEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          Thanks, good research! That very well could be, since it’s been more than 20 years, my memory is not exact.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      They did. The result: Rabin was assassinated by a Zionist terrorist (when the whole Israeli political right was calling for his assassination, mind you), Netanyahu came in his place and the whole thing came apart. Every “effort” Israel made for peace then has been a naked farce.