Flashback: Oslo architect Yossi Beilin says 'we never thought about a final agreement'

The late Yitzchak Rabin used to refer to him as Peres' poodle. In an interview with Haaretz in 1997, during Prime Minister Netanyahu's first term in office, Oslo architect Yossi Beilin told Haaretz that he and his cohorts who illegally negotiated the Oslo declaration of principles (Israeli law at the time prohibited contact with the PLO) had never thought about a future, final agreement. Shavit: