The Struggle for SovereigntyAfter the 1993 Oslo Accords people across the world anticipated the onset of peace and an end to the Palestinian Israeli conflict. For Israelis, the Accords generated massive economic growth and a sense of security. For Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they led to a dramatic rise in poverty and unemployment due to a complex array of closures, militarized checkpoints, and bypass roads, and a vast expansion of the settlement project