Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Oslo Accords Experiment is Dead

So many Israelis, particularly on the left of the political map (but not only) have considered for years that the aim of the Palestinian movement was one of nationalistic aims. In other words, the establishment of a Palestinian state. Thus, much of the thinking imposed similarities between the Zionistic aims and the Palestinian aims.

 
This was a total misunderstanding of Palestinian intentions and their fundamentalist ideology was not taken seriously. Israelis were not listening to the messages being broadcast to Palestinians themselves. How often were the “peaceful” messages of Arafat given to lull the West, but his messages to the Palestinians were, in fact, one of the hope of destroying Israel, as clearly set out in the charters of both Hamas (article 32) and the Palestinian Authority (articles 2 and 25).
 
There is a need to move away from the Oslo Accords ideology which was based on the thoughts that by giving the Palestinians work in Israel, this would give them the opportunity for a brighter future. We now know that many of those working in Israel were part of an extensive intelligence network created by Hamas which provided all the information they needed for maximizing the potential of the October 7th heinous invasion.
 
At all levels in the IDF, the security and intelligence establishment and the police, the Oslo Accords syndrome is still alive and well. However, it is clear no Palestinian leader has ever aspired to building a nation state unless it was by the elimination of the State of Israel.
 
It is now necessary to rebuild the leadership in the IDF, security, intelligence and police forces to acknowledge what should have been acknowledged years ago, the Oslo Accords was a failed experiment.

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