Alaa Tartir, programme director of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, said the notion that Rabin would have allowed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state is "a myth".

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Tartir argued that the Oslo Accords were "never designed... to bring peace".

Rather, Oslo enshrined geographical and political divisions between Palestinians. The West Bank and Gaza were administratively and physically separated, while East Jerusalem was cut off from the rest of the West Bank.

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