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by Guy Millière • September 14,
2018 at 5:30 am
- Twenty-five years
after Oslo, the balance sheet is more like what in 2003 the
historian Efraim Karsh called the start of the "Oslo
war". In this war, he wrote, Israel had conceded from the
beginning a major victory to its worst enemies by giving them a
respectability they did not deserve, and thus placed itself in a
losing position from which it never fully recovered.
- "Contrary to
Rabin's slogan, one does not 'make [peace] with very unsavory
enemies' but rather with former very unsavory enemies.
That is, enemies that have been defeated... Wars end, the
historical record shows, not through goodwill but through defeat.
He who does not win loses. Wars usually end when failure causes
one side to despair, when that side has abandoned its war aims
and accepted defeat, and when that defeat has exhausted its will
to fight. Conversely, so long as both combatants still hope to
achieve their war objectives, fighting either goes on or it
potentially will resume." — Daniel Pipes, Commentary,
January 2017.
- "The Palestinian
people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is
only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of
Israel for our Arab unity. In reality, today there is no
difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and
Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak
today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab
national interests demand that we posit the existence of a
distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism." — PLO
leader Zuheir Mohsen , interview in Trouw, March, 1977.
September
13, 1993: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO
chairman Yasser Arafat, while President Bill Clinton looks on, at the
signing of the Oslo Accord. (Image source: Vince Musi / The White
House)
September 13, 1993. Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat
shook hands on the lawn of the White House. They have just officially
signed the document that was supposed to start Peace: the Oslo
Accord. The cogs of this machine began their work.
Overnight, Yasser Arafat was no longer the leader of a
defeated terrorist organization. He had suddenly become the President
of a quasi-state; his Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) had
been transformed into the "Palestinian Authority".
Terror attacks against Israelis attacks during this
"peace" grew even more bloody and more profuse, and soon
were being perpetrated at a frantic pace. Some deliberately targeted
children and youths, such as the Dolphinarium discotheque massacre
and the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing. Arafat condemned none of
them.
In September 2000, the Palestinian Authority launched
a full scale guerrilla war that lasted four years and killed more
than 1,000 Israelis.
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