Zein Khalil<\/p>\n
11 May 2026\u2022Update: 11 May 2026<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed the discussion of a controversial bill seeking to scrap the Oslo Accords, the Israel Hayom daily reported Sunday amid growing pressure from some ministers to formally abandon the framework underpinning Palestinian self-rule.<\/p>\n
The proposed legislation, submitted by Knesset member Limor Son Har-Melech from the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, had been scheduled for debate before the Ministerial Committee for Legislation earlier Sunday before Netanyahu requested a delay, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n
According to Israel Hayom, ministers had already begun discussing the bill during a Zoom meeting when Netanyahu intervened and asked for the matter to be postponed to a later date.<\/p>\n
The head of Israel\u2019s National Security Council, Gil Reich, reportedly told ministers that more time was needed for a \u201ccareful review\u201d by the relevant team.<\/p>\n
Justice Minister Yariv Levin backed postponing the discussion but stressed that this did not amount to opposition to the bill itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the end, there is a prime minister who is exposed to matters I am not exposed to,\u201d Levin said, according to the newspaper. \u201cThe discussion is postponed until the prime minister approves it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Levin also signaled support for advancing the legislation in the future, saying: \u201cJust as we returned to Sanur, we will return to other places.\u201d<\/p>\n
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir also expressed support for the proposal, claiming that most coalition members backed canceling the Oslo Accords.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Son Har-Melech wrote on the US social media platform X that the bill was aimed at preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state and expanding settlement activity in Areas A and B of the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n
The Oslo Accords, signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington, DC in 1993, were intended to serve as a framework for Palestinian self-rule and a future Palestinian state.<\/p>\n
Under the Oslo II agreement signed in 1995, the occupied West Bank was divided into Areas A, B and C, with Area C remaining under full Israeli control and comprising around 60% of the territory.<\/p>\n
*Writing by Tarek Chouiref<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zein Khalil 11 May 2026\u2022Update: 11 May 2026 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed the discussion of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[157,156,31849],"class_list":{"0":"post-79395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oslo","8":"tag-norway","9":"tag-oslo","10":"tag-sitekeywords"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116553552048872844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}