Sonn Har Melech Calls to Repeal Oslo, Hebron and Wye Accords

MK Limor Sonn Har Melech called on November 12 for Israel to repeal the Oslo, Hebron and Wye agreements. In a statement that morning, she said she had submitted a bill on the Knesset’s first day to cancel the agreements and restore territories transferred under them. “It is time to bury the Oslo disaster,” Sonn Har Melech said. She called for Israeli sovereignty throughout the country. Her statement linked the agreements to decades of bloodshed and the Simchat Torah massacre. The Oslo declaration was signed at the White House on September 13, 1993. Israel accepted the PLO as the Palestinians’ representative, while the PLO renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist in peace. The framework envisaged a Palestinian Authority taking on governing responsibilities in Judea and Samaria and Gaza during a five-year interim period, followed by permanent-status negotiations on borders, refugees and Jerusalem. The 1995 interim agreement divided Judea and Samaria into areas with different Israeli and Palestinian security and civil responsibilities. The Hebron Protocol followed intensive U.S. mediation in January 1997 and provided for transferring most of Hebron to Palestinian control. In October 1998, U.S. President Bill Clinton hosted Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat at Wye River Plantation, where they negotiated further Israeli withdrawals from Judea and Samaria.