On this day - September 13 - in 1993, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands at the White House and signed a framework for peace between Palestinians and Israel. I was in Jerusalem at the time.

'Tomorrow is Yesterday' explores why Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts have fallen short For decades, the U.S. has tried to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Those efforts, despite the deep ...

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