The Trump administration’s decision yesterday to close the Palestine Liberation Organisation office in Washington angered Palestinians and imposed new strains on the framework agreement that has guided US policy in the Middle East for a quarter-century.
The move to shut the PLO office is the latest in a series of steps by the administration that appear to be moving away from the 1993-95 Oslo Accords before the administration has explained what it thinks should come next.
The Oslo agreements, the first of which was signed 25 years ago this week, set terms for relations between Israel and the Palestinians, including creating an interim government for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank as a steppingstone to an independent Palestinian state.
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