Israel 25 Years after the Oslo Accords: Why Did Rabin Fall for Them?

09/08/2018

Israel 25 Years after the Oslo Accords: Why Did Rabin Fall for Them? PLO chairman Yasser Arafat was a diehard man of war who made violence, dislocation, and mayhem the defining characteristics of his career. In 1970, he nearly brought about the destruction of Jordan. Five years later, he helped trigger the horrendous Lebanese civil war, one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern Middle Eastern history, which raged for more than a decade and claimed hundreds of thousands of innocent lives.