Oslo Accords
What Oslo Accords means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The 1993 agreement in which PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin officially recognised each other, brokered secretly in Norway.
The 1993 agreement that the Intifada paved the way for, after pressure on the PLO to assert leadership.
Topics that use Oslo Accords
- Option P5: Key topic 3: Attempts at a solution, 1974–95 - 2 The Palestinian issue (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option P5: Key topic 3: Attempts at a solution, 1974–95 - 3 Attempts at a solution (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Diplomacy and negotiation
- First Palestinian Intifada
- Geopolitics
- grassroots uprising
- Israel-Jordan peace treaty
- occupied territories
- Operation Peace for Galilee
- Oslo II
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