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- By this hand shake on the grass of the White House, Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin seal the agreement of mutual recognition, called “the Oslo Agreements”.

- Both men seem determined to rapidly turn them into a reality on the ground.

- But it is mined.

- From the start, the calendar accumulated delays.

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- It is only 2 months after the date agreed upon that Arafat goes back to Palestine after spending 27 years into exile.

- On the occasion of a gathering for peace in Tel Aviv, Yitzhak Rabin says those few words, the last ones being:

- All those people are the expression of the majority who wants peace.

- A few minutes later, he is shot dead by a Jewish extremist.

- I hope we will all, the Israeli and the Palestinians, manage overcoming this tragedy.

- The murder of Rabin and Benjamin Netanyahu’s unexpected election,

- leader of the Likud Party and opponent to the Oslo Agreements, puts the brakes on the process.

- After 7 months of suspension, the negotiations are renewed.

- A new round table in the USA, which ends on a new schedule of Israeli withdrawal, it remains ignored, like the others.

- One more year is needed, along with a new majority in Israel to come back to the Oslo scenario.

- In Sharm el Sheikh, the new Labor Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Yasir Arafat

- sign a renegotiated version of the former agreements.

- Summoned in haste after the announcement by the PLO of a coming declaration of a Palestinian State, Camp David Summit ends in an unsecure climate.

- The statute of Jerusalem has not been settled yet, and Ariel Sharon’s visit on the esplanade of the Mosques stirs up a hornet’s nest.

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- The meeting in Paris does bring any change.

- 7 years after Oslo, that had to celebrate mutual recognition, the antagonisms of both sides lose room to mutual rejection.