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The eerie price of the “Oslo war”

Oct 19, 2018
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    Twenty-five years after Oslo, the status quo is more like what the historian Efraim Karsh called the beginning of the “Oslo War” in 2003. In this war, he wrote, Israel confessed to its worst enemies from the outset an important victory by conferring on them a respectability which they did not deserve, and had thus placed themselves in a losing position which the country never quite recovered from.

  • “Contrary to Rabin’s slogan ‘one does not end [peace] with very unpleasant enemies’, but with formerly very unpleasant enemies. That is enemies who have been defeated > … History shows that wars end, not by benevolence, but by defeat . He who does not win loses. War usually ends when defeat causes one party to despair when this “party has given up its war goals and accepted the defeat, and when that defeat has exhausted its will to fight. But as long as both combatants still hope to reach their goal, the fighting will either continue or potentially be resumed.” – Daniel Pipes, Commentary , January 2017.
  • “The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is just a means of continuing our fight against the state of Israel for our Arab union. Today, there is really no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. It “It is only for political and tactical reasons that we are talking today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we assert the existence of a special Palestinian people in order to counter Zionism.” – PLO leader Zuheir Mohsen, interview in Trouw , March 1977.


On September 13, 1993, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook hands on the lawn in front of The White House . They had just officially signed the document that was supposed to start the peace: Oslo agreement . The gears of the machinery began their work.

From one day to the next, Yasser Arafat was no longer the leader of a defeated terrorist organization. He had suddenly become president of a sham state; his Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO ) had been transformed into the “ Palestinian Authority ” (Palestinian Authority – PA).

The terrorist attacks on Israelis became even more bloody and numerous during this “peace” and were soon carried out at a furious pace. Some were deliberately targeted at children and young people, such as the massacre at the Dolphinarium disco and the suicide bombing of the Sbarro restaurant. Arafat condemned none of them.

In September 2000, the Palestinian Authority launched a large-scale four-year guerrilla war, killing more than 1,000 Israelis [the Second Intifada].

It soon became clear that Arafat did not intend to stop being a mass murderer. His successor, Mahmoud Abbas, was no better. The killings of Jews did not stop. Israel eventually decided to build a security barrier. Palestinian leaders tirelessly continued to make demands that no country would be able to meet without committing suicide. These demands included a withdrawal of the 1949 ceasefire lines, which were impossible to defend, and that Israel should admit millions of people who had sworn to exterminate the Jews:

While it is true that Hamas are experts in getting innocent Palestinians killed, they have made it very clear, in words as well as in action, that they prefer to kill Jews. The following statement, which causes the blood to freeze in the veins, comes from the group’s charter: “The Islamic Resistance Movement strives for the fulfillment of Allah’s promise, no matter how long it will take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and bring him salvation, has said: ‘Judgment Day does not come until Muslims fight the Jews (by killing the Jews), wherever the Jews hide behind rocks and trees. The stones and trees will say ‘Oh Muslims, oh Abdulla, who stands a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’

This is a clear and obvious call for genocide, embodied in one of the most permeated anti-Semitic documents one can read since the publication of the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion. Not many people seem to be aware that Hamas’ founding document calls for genocide. (Jeffrey Goldberg’s 2014 analysis of The Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas)

Meanwhile, Israel was constantly asked to negotiate and make more and more concessions.

And concessions yielded it. In 2005, Israel unconditionally and by force evacuated every remaining Jew from the entire Gaza Strip – an act that meant Hamas quickly seized power there. In a plan proposed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in 2008, Israel also offered to leave the eastern half of Jerusalem and to withdraw almost completely from the West Bank and Jordan Valley – a step that led to the collapse of negotiations on the Palestinian side. Yet Israel continued to be internationally defined as the guilty party.

Although the Palestinian Authority never hid the fact that it was still the same old genocidal PLO, it gained widespread recognition: many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and even the papacy, recognized a “Palestinian state” that simply does not exist. “Palestine” gained a seat in UNESCO and status as a permanent observer in the UN. [ addition from MIFF-DK’s editorial staff: as of 3 August 2018, 137 (71%) of the 193 UN member states have recognized Palestine as an independent state – see the full analysis on Wikipedia ]

Despite the fact that a large part of the foreign financial aid to the Palestinian Authority was used to reward terrorism and finance increased hatred against Jews, foreign support grew.

Palestinian propaganda gained ground internationally, and even in Israel. An increasing number of Israeli Arabs became radicalized; some carried out attacks.

Extremist organizations, which were formed in Israel but financed from abroad in the name of “peace”, showed their true suit in the form of overt hostility to the existence of Israel. The recent adoption of a law defining Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people and establishing something that has been clear since Israel’s founding in 1948 prompted some of these organizations to try to provoke an anti-Israel anger among the Druze minority and organize demonstrations in Tel Aviv. (The Declaration of Independence does not exclude anyone and speaks of “the development of the land for the benefit of all its inhabitants”; it also explicitly mentions “the natural right of the Jewish people, like all other nations, to be masters of their own destiny on the land to which they belong. its own sovereign state “.) [ see also Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People – in English and now also in Danish (Nationalstatsloven), with a little comment]

Twenty-five years after Oslo, the status quo is more like what the historian Efraim Karsh , in a commentary on the Rabin-Arafat handshake, in 2003 called the beginning of the “Oslo War”. In this war, he wrote, Israel confessed from the outset its worst enemies an important victory by conferring on them a respectability which they did not deserve, and had thus placed themselves in a losing position which the country never quite recovered from. In a comprehensive study, published in 2016, he confirmed his analysis, saying that the 1993 handshake and the document signed at the time had constituted the “greatest strategic blunder in Israel’s history”.

In January 2017, historian Daniel Pipes , founder and president of the Middle East Forum, explained in detail the urgent need for a profound change in Israel’s behavior before it would be too late. . The Palestinian people, he stressed, are permeated by a “genocidal forced occupation against Israel.” He emphasized that:

“Contrary to Rabin’s slogan, one does not end [peace] with very unpleasant enemies, but rather with previously very unpleasant enemies. That is, enemies who have been defeated

“… History shows that wars cease, not by benevolence, but by defeat. He who does not win loses. War usually ceases when defeat causes one party to despair, after that party has given up its war goals and accepted “and as long as that defeat has exhausted its will to fight. But as long as both combatants still hope to reach their goal, the fighting will either continue or potentially resume.” (Daniel Pipes)

In 2003, Joel Fishman , an employee of the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs , wrote that before taking further action on the Palestinian cause, the Israeli government should cease dealing with the Palestinians.nensiske Self-government as something it ikk e is, and begin to treat it as what it is and has never ceased to be: a terrorist organization – and one that should be treated as such. Both the US and Israeli governments are now moving in this direction. On March 6, 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Abbas must “stop paying terrorists to murder Jews.” The statement did not merely mean the appointment of Abbas as terrorist leader; it also reminded the public that money encourages murder. A few weeks ago, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman noted that Abbas “pays NIS 100 million (Israeli shekels, approximately 177 million Danish kroner) in fees to terrorists and murderers,” adding “a clear message: It’s over”.

Those who support the Palestinian Authority support terrorism. One can only conclude that they thereby reveal themselves as enemies of Israel. To say so about certain governments could be unpopular, but to a lesser extent the so-called NGOs (organizations that are not government-funded or controlled). NGO Monitor was founded in 2002 to oppose organizations that appear to be “human rights defenders” but use this to support often harmful targets. In July 2016, the Knesset passed a law requiring NGOs receiving more than half of their funding from abroad to show this in their financial reports and to disclose it in advertisements and publications, and when lobbying among the public. officials. Would you like to know that more than half of the funds that go into determining your country’s policy came from clearly hostile countries, and without this being disclosed?

Something else that desperately needs our attention is a revelation, refutation and rejection of the falsification of history that the Palestinian Authority and its supporters are spreading. The decision of the Israeli government to withdraw from UNESCO, after a vote completely incorrectly denied the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall of Jerusalem, was decisive and timely. When Prime Minister Netanyahu refers to the West Bank, he speaks exclusively of Judea and Samaria, states that Judea was named after the presence of the Jews there thousands of years ago, and explains that the expulsion of Jews from Judea and Samaria should be called by its proper name. : Ethnic cleansing.

In an interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw in March 1977, the PLO leader Zuheir Mohsen stated:

“The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is just a means of continuing our fight against the state of Israel for Arab unification. In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. It is only for political and tactical reasons that we are talking today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we assert the existence of a separate Palestinian people in order to counter Zionism. ” (PLO Lederen Zuheir Mohsen)

The same fact was confirmed in a video posted by the invaluable source MEMRI : a Hamas interior minister in 2012 states that the Palestinians are “just Saudis and Egyptians.”

For eight years, the Obama administration took positions that would undermine Israel. This policy culminated on December 23, 2016, with the decision not to veto a UN resolution demanding that Israel return to the “1967 borders”, which are in fact not borders, but merely a ceasefire line. This policy also defined “East Jerusalem” and the Old City as “Occupied Palestinian Territory”. President Trump, on the other hand, has recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on May 14, and with these two actions has taken Jerusalem out of the negotiations. Guatemala has followed up positively by also moving its embassy to Jerusalem. When President Trump asked Palestinian leaders to stop paying salaries to terrorists imprisoned in Israel and to the families of dead terrorists, and the Palestinians refused, he removed more than $ 200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority.

President Trump’s administration also considered the extension of “refugee status” for millions of descendants of the well over 500,000 indigenous Arabrefugees as indefensible. According to a classified document in the Foreign Ministry, today only 30,000 of the original refugees remain. So the president suspended all outstanding payments, well over $ 300 million, to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). He added that UNRWA has been “open to embezzlement and corruption,” and that the agency has exacerbated the problem rather than contributing to its solution. On September 9, he also decided to freeze $ 25 million to fund Palestinian hospitals in Jerusalem due to unwillingness to participate in the peace efforts, and on September 10, he decided to close the Palestinian delegation’s office in Washington D.C.

The Sunni Arab regimes are well aware that Israel could become their main ally in the fight against the Iranian threat in the region. The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohamed Bin Salman , said in New York in April that the Palestinians must “accept the proposals put forward by the Trump administration or remain silent”. On August 12, Walid Sadi , a former Jordanian diplomat, wrote in the Jordan Times (a newspaper that is directly dependent on the Kingdom government) that the Palestinian Authority must “come to terms with with an imperfect solution “. That statement makes one think about what, in the eyes of the Palestinian Authority, a perfect solution might look like.

Israel has always faced irreconcilable hostility from the European Union (EU), France and Germany, which today are among the most ardent supporters of the corrupt “Palestinian cause”. The Israeli government knows full well that it should not expect anything from them other than to be undermined. In July 2016, after making some blatantly anti-Semitic remarks in the European Parliament, Mahmoud Abbas received a standing ovation. In July 2017, Emmanuel Macron kissed Abbas and thanked him, without drawing a face, for his “tireless work for non-violence”. In April 2018, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was on the cover of one of the largest French news magazines, Paris Match , and several pages inside the magazine were devoted to a saint story about a man , who can only be described as an anti-Semitic killer. In April 2017, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel met, during a diplomatic trip to Israel, with groups denouncing Israeli soldiers as “war criminals”. The European Union, France and Germany will apparently not stop their funding of the Palestinian Authority and dozens of radical anti-Israel organizations and will do everything they can to save the “Iranian nuclear deal” and the mullahs’ regime.

The number of Israelis who believe a peace deal is possible is dwindling. The number of Israelis who believe that no further concessions should be made is rising. The number of Palestinian Arabs supporting terrorist attacks is also rising.

In a recent survey, which ranked countries by their alliances, influence and leadership, Israel, despite its small size, was ranked as the eighth most powerful country in the world.

The shrinking terrorist organization Hamas has tried to turn the brutally ruled population of the Gaza Strip into a bunch of bloodthirsty fanatics. The Palestinian Authority is a corruption-ridden autocracy that survives solely thanks to massive support, mainly from the gullible West – a bribe that not only has not worked, but which, like most other cases of bribery, has simply led to further demands for more money. , without noticeable changes in behavior.

It is truly tragic that the people of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have been held hostage for so long by some Palestinian leaders who feed them a dream, hinder any progress and incite them against Israel to promote its annihilation.

In February 2017, then-US Ambassador John Bolton, today President Trump’s National Security Adviser, said he could not spot any viable institutions on the “Palestinian” side, adding that he believed the best solution could be a ” three-state solution “, where Gaza was connected to Egypt and part of the West Bank was connected to Jordan. The Israeli government did not disagree.

Sources and Notes

Dr. Guy Millière is a professor at the Université du Paris and forfatter of 27 books on France and Europe.Originally published by the Gatestone Institute on September 14, 2018, The Grim Cost of the “Oslo War” . Translated into Danish by Mette Thomsen and published on October 11, 2018. Reprinted with permission from Gatestone Institute .

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