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    Can Saudi-Israel peace talks learn lessons from the past?

    by Ned Temko Sep 14, 2023 3 minutes

    “Welcome to this great occasion of history and hope.”

    Those words, spoken by former U.S. President Bill Clinton on the south lawn of the White House 30 years ago this week, did not sound wildly hyperbolic at the time. Flanking him, after all, were the bitterest of Mideast enemies: Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat.

    And they were committing to embark on the road to peace – the Oslo process, so called because the declaration of principles the leaders were signing had

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