The Oslo Accords: A Third Party Negotiated Treaty and Its Effectiveness in Peace Implementation

"You are strong enough, you can dominate the whole region, your fighter planes can bomb where ever they want. You can make war with Syria, but you cannot make war with Palestine. We have no tanks, no planes--but we are the cancer in the Israeli stomach. Let's cooperate and make peace together. And you should make it first with the Palestinians-- before Jordan, before the rest. We don't have the key, but we are the key."

-Abu Alaa, PLO Lead Negotiator at Oslo, May 1993