In contrast, Yasser Arafat led an armed struggle against Israel through the famous Palestinian Liberation Organization. [2] He accepted the two-state solution in 1988 and joined the Oslo Peace Process, shaking the hand of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1993. The extremist groups of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad had risen during the early 1990s and did not want the Oslo Peace Process to succeed. Yet, he was called a traitor and sell-out to American money for sticking to the Oslo process. [5]The Oslo Peace Process did not bear much fruit for the Palestinians or Israelis.

Source: New York Times November 14, 2023 01:16 UTC