LONDON: Exactly 33 years ago today, on Sept. 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, stood on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington and shook hands for the cameras in front of a beaming US President Bill Clinton. The historic handshake celebrated the signing of an agreement, the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, which would become known as the Oslo 1 Accord. At the time, the
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