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Palestinian Civil Society Launches Effort to Create a Post-Oslo Peace Process

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Tuesday, September 13, 2022

JERUSALEM, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on ideas published in the Palestinian press by Jerome Segal, at a press conference in Ramallah, fifty Palestinians from various parts of civil society, including one member of the PLO Executive Committee, and one from the PLO Central Committee, released a petition calling on 195 world leaders, including the President of the State of Palestine, to:

Key Points: 
  • The conclusion that the Oslo Peace Process is dead, was reached by many observers a decade ago.
  • Rather, it would create a new process of conflict resolution in which the United Nations becomes a medium for people-to-people peace making between the Palestinian people and the citizens of Israel.
  • - UNSCOP would then come to the region and engage with all of Israeli and Palestinian civil society, including visiting refugee camps outside Palestine.
  • - The referendum on the Palestinian side would go forward, whether or not the Israeli government boycotts the process.