By Joel Singer
Legal Times
Given the recent bloodshed in the Middle East, people might be forgiven for forgetting the significance of Sept. 13, 1993. That day, under the welcoming arms of President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn, publicly sealing the Mutual Recognition Agreement those leaders had signed days earlier. That agreement was the precursor to approximately 10 subsequent agreements known collectively as the Oslo Accords. While no one seems to be explicitly acknowledging it today, a number of broad and indisputable legal principles underlying the Oslo Accords still survive, at least formally. To pretend that problems can be resolved based only on legal principles would be quite naive. But the continuing force of the Oslo Accords — or an acceptable legal substitute building on them — can at least provide a path to a more stable situation in the Middle East.
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