Oslo I Accord

Oslo Accords signing, September 13, 1993 At the White House, with Bill Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat looking on, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed a Declaration of Principles. Israel accepted the PLO as the Palestinians' representative, the PLO recognized Israel's right to exist and renounced terrorism, and a Palestinian Authority was to govern parts of the West Bank and Gaza while talks on a permanent settlement followed. The hardest questions were postponed rather than settled, and they still define the conflict.