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Award-winning play Oslo depicts drama of Israeli and Palestinian negotiations but today the picture is bleaker

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Published: 18 September 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

“The peace process as we knew it has ended,” the former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami told me ruefully. “At the moment, the peace process is dead,” echoed the former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei

The talking is over, the occupation goes on. Will there ever be peace in the Middle East? (The Guardian)
When the last serious talks ended, it was because the maximum Israel was prepared to offer fell short of the minimum the Palestinians were prepared to accept. That stalemate endures. If anything, the gap is wider now, as Israeli positions in particular have hardened. (Sep 15)

Photo: Many Palestinians have walked away from politics.’ Palestinian women wait near the Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank, 2010 (Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

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