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Madrid peace conference

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, left, confers with Benjamin Netanyahu, a member of the Israel delegation, prior to the start of the opening session of the Mideast peace conference on Oct. 30, 1991 in Madrid. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev opened the conference between Israel and front line Arab States. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin)
December 5, 2018, 1:19 am
Netanyahu hated George H.W. Bush’s peace plan. Now it’s his policy
His opposition to the US-led Madrid peace process as deputy foreign minister made him persona non grata at the State Department
By Ron Kampeas
Then US vice president George H.W. Bush prays at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. (Government Press Office)
December 1, 2018, 7:18 pm
Netanyahu on Bush: We’ll always remember his commitment to Israel’s security
PM, president eulogize 41st US president for role in helping liberate Soviet Jewry, ‘efforts to achieve peace’ at Madrid conference, and aid in bringing Ethiopian Jews to Israel
By ToI Staff and JTA
Almost a decade after the failed London Agreement, prime minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan meet in the Royal Palace in Amman in December 1995. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
September 30, 2016, 3:12 pm
Missed opportunity? The 1987 Peres-Hussein peace deal that wasn’t
Pushed by Margaret Thatcher, Shimon Peres believed the London Agreement would have averted the Intifada. Here’s what went wrong
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Ron Pundak (left), and Abu Ala (photo credit: Courtesy Ron Pundak)
April 11, 2014, 1:54 pm
Ron Pundak, architect of Oslo Accords, dies at 59
Academic who initiated the secret channel that led to the Rabin-Arafat handshake 20 years ago succumbs to cancer
By Raphael Ahren and Lazar Berman
Former US president Bill Clinton looks on as then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO head Yasser Arafat shake hands during the signing of the Oslo Accords, September 13, 1993. (Courtesy/GPO)
September 15, 2013, 5:49 am
No regrets, many laments, from the architect of Oslo
Ron Pundak, who initiated the secret channel that led to the Rabin-Arafat handshake 20 years ago, argues that without the process he birthed, things today would be even worse
By Raphael Ahren
Jewish Fatah member Ilan Halevi (photo credit: Youtube/ screengrab)
July 10, 2013, 11:09 pm
Ilan Halevi, Jewish senior PLO member, dies at 70
Born in Nazi-occupied France, anti-Zionist activist rose through the ranks, advising Yasser Arafat
By Lazar Berman
Yigal Carmon, Washington DC, 2015 (courtesy)
February 13, 2013, 11:59 am
The Arab Spring is great, says leading Israeli analyst
Yigal Carmon, founder of MEMRI, believes the current revolutionary shift is an essential first step in the Arabs’ long road ‘to ‘join humanity’
By Elhanan Miller
Yitzhak Shamir gestures as he speaks in 1985. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
July 1, 2012, 2:51 pm
The stubborn embodiment of Jewish self-reliance
His family’s fate in Poland taught him that Jews can depend only on themselves. Nothing he led or lived through in Israel clouded that belief
By Matti Friedman
Yitzhak Shamir (photo credit: Flash90)
June 30, 2012, 8:33 pm
Yitzhak Shamir, Israel’s modest, hardline ex-PM, dies at 96
Pre-’48 underground leader, Mossad agent, and seventh prime minister passes away after long illness; Netanyahu mourns a ‘founder of the state’
By ToI Staff
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