Israeli and Palestinian officials attended a dinner in Norway’s capital to mark the fifth anniversary of the initialing of the Oslo accords. The officials – – including former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres — denied that they were attending a funeral for the peace process, which has been deadlocked for more than 17 months. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not attending the two days of events to mark the August 1993 initialing, which paved the way for an official signing ceremony a month later on the White House lawn.
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