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Trump’s Gaza Takeover Plan May Sound Death Knell for the Two-State Solution • Feb. 7, 2025, 7:30 AM ET (New York Times)

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Participants Israel • Palestine Liberation Organization
Context Hussein-McMahon correspondence • Palestinian Authority • Oslo Accords • Cairo Agreement

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Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip: pre-1967 borders
UN partition plan for Israel and Palestine in 1947
Six-Day War in Gaza
Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin
Oslo Accords
Israeli and Palestinian settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (1995)
Wye River Memorandum
Jerusalem: Dome of the Rock, overlooking the Western Wall
Gilo: Jewish settlement near Bethlehem
Discover a historical milestone in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship with the signing of the Declaration of Principles, 1993
The Dome of the Rock explained
The history of the Dome of the Rock
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Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian leader
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon
prime minister of Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
prime minister of Israel
Barak, Ehud
Ehud Barak
prime minister of Israel
Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas
Palestinian leader
Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres
prime minister and president of Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin
prime minister of Israel
Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert
prime minister of Israel
Abdullah II of Jordan
Abdullah II
king of Jordan