“It's Nakba , Not a Party”: Re-Stating the (Continued) Legacy of the Oslo Accords by Somdeep Sen

“…Two decades later, how should we conceptualize the relevance of the Oslo Accords today? This article reconstitutes our understanding of the Accords through three parameters and purports that the legacy of the Interim Agreement is one that oscillates between what it has failed to achieve with regard to the Palestinian quest for statehood and what it continues to do as a mechanism influencing the “brand” Palestinian politics that can be practiced (uninhibitedly) within the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt). …”
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The Conundrum of the Palestinian Two-State, One-State Solution by Ghada Hashem Talhami

“…This study seeks to explain the implications of the US's withdrawal from the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, resulting in the weakening of the Palestinian Authority, and calls for abrogating the Oslo Accords. Causes of the failure of the Accords, such as the Palestinians' inability to act on Oslo's projected date of 1990 for statehood, or to stand up to the Clinton Parameters for peace, or to stem the tide of the Jewish settlement movement, or to capitalize on pronouncements of the International Criminal Court on the Wall and the settlements, are examined. …”
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Alterity Across Generations  by Mjriam Abu Samra, Loubna Qutami

“…The 1993 Oslo Accords marked the shift from an anti-colonial liberation project into a neo-liberal state-building project for the Palestinian political establishment. …”
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The European Union Counteraction To Israel's Settlement Policy In The Occupied Arab Territories: Myths And Realities by A. V. Krylov

“…After the failure in 2001 of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations aimed to reach a «Final-Status Agreement» in accordance with the Oslo Accords, the European Union made several attempts to limit the European market penetration of the Israeli products originating from the occupied territories (the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights). …”
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Trump’s Peace Plan by Wissal Werfelli

“…As the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was going on, and since the signing of the Oslo Accords in the early 1990s, the first issue among the priorities of successive US administrations in the Middle East until regional developments imposed other priorities as a result of the events of September 2001, and the subsequent occupation of Iraq in 2003. …”
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The neoliberal real estate model and the fantasy of hyperreality: the case of Rawabi City, Palestine by Shaden Awad, Sahera Bleibleh

“…Abstract The establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA) after the 1993 Oslo Accords opened doors for private local, and international, investments, mainly in real estate sector. …”
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Culture and the city: articulations of settler colonialism from Haifa to Ramallah and back by Abushama, H

“…It draws on fieldwork in Haifa (in the 1948 Palestinian territories) and Ramallah (in central West Bank) to argue that the shift towards neoliberalism in 1985 and its sedimentation through the Oslo Accords in 1993 amount to a ‘transformed settler colonialism,’ one more intimately tied to flows of global capital. …”

Rifts, Ruptures, and Fractures: The (Ir)relevance of Postmodern Conceptual Frames from the Point of View of Palestine's Poet Mahmoud Darwish by AbdelKarim Daragmeh, Ahmad Qabaha

“…By looking at poems written after the Oslo Accords, which were described by Bashir Abu-Manneh as “the root cause of the disintegration and liquidation of Palestinian agency,” we argue that Darwish's persona manifests the postmodern intellectual who is tempted to leave the collective and expatriate himself to hone an independent self and thought that provides a fresh perspective and a new understanding of Palestinian collectivity. …”
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Islamist Women of Hamas : Between Feminism and Nationalism by Islah Jad

“…In December, 1995,when Hamas announced the establishment of the Islamic National Salvation Party, a political organisation separate from its military wing, it opened the way for involvement of the Islamic movement in the political processes brought about in the West Bank and Gaza with the signing of the Oslo Accords and the arrival of the Palestinian National Authority. …”
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Role of religious nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by Mehrzad, Javadikouchaksaraei

“…The thesis investigated the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement of 1993-2000 (the Oslo Accords has marked a new era for the Palestinians) by placing through the methodology of primary and secondary source of qualitative study investigating with historically analyze and constructivist theory. …”
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Dependency, privilege, and counter-insurgency: a case study of the industrial elite of Hebron in the occupied West Bank by Arafeh, N

“…First, I argue that the development of Hebron’s industrial elite has been driven by dependency relations established by Israel in 1967 and reconfigured following the Oslo accords. I highlight how Hebron’s elite concentrated their capital after Oslo, through business relations with Israeli capitalists and informal linkages with Israeli officers. …”

L’exercice de la médecine générale en Palestine : influences des contraintes en territoires occupés by Laure Juillet, Sébastien Fleuret, William Bellanger

“…The governorates are fragmented and the health care system cannot develop homogeneously on the territory since institutions can be implanted only in area A or B defined by the Oslo Accords (urban hubs and their close suburbs). The geopolitical, economic and structural context of Palestine impacts their professional practice: physicians are isolated on the territory and in the health system. …”
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European-Israeli Military Relations during Israel Regional Wars (2006-2016) by Mohammed Abu Saada, Yıldırım Turan

“…In this view, we partitioned the study into three principal parts: The first part focuses on the nature of European-Israeli relations and provides a historical synopsis by addressing three phases; the first phase from 1949 to 1967, i.e., from the establishment of the State of Israel to the Six-Day War; the second phase from 1967 to 1993, i.e., the period that preceded the peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians, the Oslo Accord; and the third phase from 1993 to 2006, which addresses the period preceding the Israeli war on Lebanon. …”
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