Old Newscast: The Oslo Accords, 1993 (Part 2)

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🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Old Newscast, we look at how the Oslo peace process failed.

Changes in Israeli leadership and disagreement on issues like Jerusalem, Palestinian statehood and Israeli settlements undermined the process and continue to echo today.

Adam speaks to Jane Corbin from BBC Panorama and BBC Chief International Correspondent who were reporting during the peace process.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this episode of Old Newscast on BBC Sounds. Just a reminder, if you want to listen to our daily episodes of newscast from the modern world, they're available and you can subscribe to them on BBC Sounds.
0:13.6	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. In the last episode of Old Newscast, we spoke about the famous handshake on the 13th of September 1993 on the lawn of the White House between the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the PLO, which was a public acknowledgement of the Oslo peace process that produced a set of agreements known as the Oslo Accords.
0:36.6	In this episode, we'll be looking at things that undermined the peace process, things like
0:41.3	Israeli settlements, suicide bombings and changes in the leadership of Israel.
0:46.6	All of this, on this episode of Old Newscast.
0:50.1	Newscast from the BBC.
0:52.5	We have been granted the great privilege of witnessing this victory for peace.
0:57.0	For the past nine months, a secret channel forged the way to peace.
1:01.3	Enough of blood and tears.
1:04.5	Peace leads courage, yes men.
1:06.4	There's a real fear of renewed turmoil in the Middle East.
1:13.5	Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, and I'm here with Jane Corbyn from Panorama. Hello, Jane. Hello. And Lisa DeSette, well, from the news.
1:19.1	Hello. Right. So we've just had an incredibly hopeful moment. There's handshakes on the White
1:25.1	House lawn. You've broadcast an amazing panorama, Jane,
1:28.9	with all this access and the secret talks. Lees, you're thinking about moving to the region
1:33.7	and setting up a BBC operation in Jordan. When, I mean, what happens next? What's the next
1:39.3	bit of the story? Well, the next thing that happened to me was I went to Tunis to go with Arafat back to Gaza
1:45.6	because it took a few months.
1:47.7	The agreement, after agreements were signed, the idea was that he would form this government in Gaza.
1:53.0	It would be Gaza first, Jericho, see how it works out, and then move into more areas.
1:59.2	And he invited me on his plane to fly from Tunis back to Gaza.
2:03.0	Why don't we have a listen to some of your panorama where you speak to Arafat?
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