The Oslo Agreement of 1993, and the Stance of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Abstract

The Oslo Agreement is the agreement signed between the PLO and Israil on Monday 13 September 1993. The Oslo Agreement was formally signed in Washington. It was signed, on the Palestinian side, by Mahmoud Abbas, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and member of the Fatah Central Committee, who pursued these secret negotiations himself. It was signed by Shimon Peres, the foreign minister, and signed by US Secretary of State Warren Krestover and the Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, as their countries were committed to the Middle East peace process and were signed at a grand ceremony in the presence of the president. Bill Clinton, and the presence of Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, aired to various parts of the world. The Declaration of Principles contains seventeen articles, four annexes, an agreed record, and three letters, two of which are mutual official recognition between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat.The position of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) came as a rejection of the settlement projects based on its charter, which stated: ((The initiatives and the so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences to resolve the Palestinian issue are incompatible with the doctrine of Hamas The negligence in any part of Palestine is a violation of part of religion) That these conferences do not achieve the demands and does not restore rights, and what is the kind of people who control the people of disbelief in the land of Muslims, and described international initiatives and conferences as a waste of time. Based on the above, the refusal of the Islamic Resistance Movement, the participation of the PLO in the Madrid Conference and then the signing of the Gaza-Jericho Agreement in 1993.