A historic handshake: the Oslo agreements

The President of the United States Bill Clinton unites in an embrace two former bitter enemies, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat and the then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. It's 11:43 on September 13, 1993 and this is the first public handshake between the two, as soon as they left the White House where they put their signatures on a historic agreement to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.. Why Oslo? The n…