The Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement between Israel and the
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip September 28, 1995 (hereinafter: Oslo II) seeks to implement the Oslo I Agreement of 13 September 1993.
It defines the security, electoral, public administration, PLO`s obligations
and economic arrangements during the interim period of five years from the date
of the Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area of 4 May 1994 until
permanent settlement in accordance with Security Council Resolution 242 and
338.
The relationship between Israel and
the Palestinians is intended to be conducted in accordance with Oslo II. The
main critic of Israel today is undoubtedly the European Union (EU), a witness to Oslo II. Yet there are almost no
obligations that have not been breached by the Palestinians, there is no
Palestinian breach that has not been overlooked by the EU, there is no
unilateral Palestinian action which was not given unconditional EU support and there
are no limits to Palestinian “rights” invented by the EU, unbelievably, a witness
to Oslo II. Accordingly, the EU has no further
role to play.
1) Article XXXI (9): “The PLO undertakes that, within two
months of the date of the inauguration of the Council, the Palestinian National
Council will convene and formally approve the necessary changes in regard to
the Palestinian Covenant, as undertaken in the letters signed by the Chairman
of the PLO and addressed to the Prime Minister of Israel, dated September 9,
1993 and May 4, 1994.”
- 25 years later, Arafat`s letter has not yet been ratified nor its charter amended. The effect is that the official policy of the Palestinians remains a Palestinian state in place of Israel, not a two-state solution. The EU has never requested Palestinian compliance. Silence means EU`s consent.
2) Article IX (5)(a): “The Council will not have powers
and responsibilities in the sphere of foreign relations, which sphere includes
the establishment abroad of embassies, consulates or other types of foreign
missions and posts or permitting their establishment in the West Bank or the
Gaza Strip, the appointment of or admission of diplomatic and consular staff,
and the exercise of diplomatic functions.”
- The Palestinians have relations with about 140 states, including about 20 embassies in EU countries and even appointing an ambassador to the EU. The EU is a full partner to this unilateral Palestinian contravention of Oslo II to which it is a witness
- The Palestinians have ignored and breached this provision of
Oslo II continuously since 1995. In Judea and Samaria alone, in 2019, 2018 and
2017 there were 34, 55 and 82 respectively significant terrorist attacks with 5,
12 and 18 respectively Israelis being killed. In addition, Israel thwarted 560 significant violent
attacks in 2019 alone. From Gaza, 1,403, 1,119 and 29
rockets and mortars were fired in 2019, 2018 and 2017 respectively. The EU,
with their High Commissioners always attacking Israel, has said nothing and
done nothing to prevent these attacks. Again, silence means consent. Worse,
through the EU`s substantial but unsupervised financial support of the
Palestinians, the Palestinians have the funds to finance their “pay for slay”
policy. The only time the EU is heard is when criticizing Israel for exercising
its legitimate right to self-defence.
There are many other provisions which have been breached by
the Palestinians such as incitement, education and not joining international
organizations. EU countries did nothing to prevent the Palestinians signing the
Rome Statute, another unilateral breach. The ICC is largely financed by EU
countries.
Oslo II clearly contemplates that
areas of Area C will remain with Israel. In view of the Palestinian breaches of
most of the provisions of Oslo II, including but not limited to unilaterally joining
international organizations, unilaterally claiming sovereignty as a State, its
almost daily attacks of terrorism and hostility, its failure to ratify Arafat`s
letter, all tacitly agreed to by the EU`s silence, there is nothing to prevent
Israel unilaterally implementing the intent of Oslo II and applying Israeli law
to all or part of Area C in its discretion. With the EU`s demands for parameters which
were never included in Oslo II and its open bias against Israel, the EU no
longer has any role to play in implementing new and different arrangements as proposed
by the USA to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
3 comments:
what does one do?
you may be right, you are right.
but so what?
Barry
Along with the Holocaust education sponsored by President Trump, the history of Palestine and creation of Israel should be included in this education. Most people in the world today, even Jews, do not realize that the Arabs from other countries (Turkey, Egypt, Sudan) suddenly became Palestinians only after the State of Israel was created by the UN in 1949; that the Jews called this land Palestine (actually Canaan) since the Roman time; they believe the lies created by Arabs, that Palestinians were always Arabs and that the Jews came to the Arab country, Palestine. Education in all schools, with the Holocaust, is a must.
Liza
From Chana Givon:-
The EU members - many of whom wantonly handed over their loyal Jewish citizens to the Nazis for extermination - have forgotten that they no longer have jurisdiction over Jews who now have a country- Israel- despite all the international efforts to ignore this historical and legal right. By the same token, the EU has no compunction about its efforts on behalf of the Palestinian Arabs in a land grab, constructing facts on the ground for a future Palestinian state on territory that was unanimously endorsed by the League of Nations as the Jewish portion of the Mandate in 1922. That marked the first partition of the original promise to the Jews; the second partition by the U.N. in 1947 again divided the Jewish portion into two states. Now there is talk of yet a third partition! It is time to turn the clock back to 1922 and for the still legal decision of the League of Nations to be realized. It should begin now - with no more delays!
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