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Thirty years after the Israeli government approved the first part of the Oslo Accords, declassified minutes from that cabinet meeting reveal the doubts of government ministers, of then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and of then-IDF chief of staff, Ehud Bark, on entering into an agreement with the PLO. Despite his concerns, Rabin still implored the ministers to approve the agreement: "The business is very complicated…There are things which in such a reality have no smooth solutions," he said. Three decades later, the reality remains complicated. Dr. Michael Milstein is head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. He previously served as advisor on Palestinian Affairs in Office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, and head of the Department for Palestinian Affairs in IDF Military Intelligence. He spoke to KAN's Naomi Segal about his take on what happened in the cabinet meeting 30 years ago, and where the