Making Peace With The Plo The Rabin Government's Road To The Oslo Accord [Paperback]

This book explores the personal, domestic, regional, and international factors that led Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and other top aides to negotiate the peace accords. It describes in fascinating detail the intricacies of the Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) bargaining.Foreword -- Prologue -- The Unforeseen Peace Process -- Drafting the Declaration of Principles -- Upgrading the Oslo Talks -- Brinkmanship -- The Israeli Political Environment -- International and Regional Changes -- Rabins Personal Road to Oslo -- The Lessons of Oslo -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Security Council Resolution 242 -- The Camp David Accords -- The Reagan Peage Initiative -- Reagans Talking Points 2 -- The London Agreement 3 -- The Shultz Initiative 4 -- Israeli Government Peace Initiative 5 -- U.S.-Soviet Letter of Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference -- Israeli Labor Party Platform -- U.S. Proposal for Israeli-Palestinian Statement 6 -- Rabins Letter to Arafat Recognizing the Plo -- Arafats Letter to Rabin Recognizing Israels Right to Exist in Peace -- Arafats Letter to Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst on the Intifada -- The Israel-Plo Declaration of Principles -- Excerpts from Speeches at the Secret Oslo Signing Ceremony -- Rabins Speech at the Dop Signing Ceremony -- Arafats Speech at the Dop Signing Ceremony -- Clintons Speech at Dop Signing Ceremony -- Peres Letter to Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst on the Status of Jerusalem -- Senior Israeli Officials who Report Directly to Rabin -- Chronology -- About the Book and Author