The Oslo Accords doomed the prospects for a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
, a top member of the U.S. diplomatic team, recently recalled, “We weren’t allowed even to use the phrase that ‘settlements were an obstacle to peace.’”
Intent on managing rather than phasing out the occupation, Israel established an extensive network of security checkpoints for Palestinians and bypass roads for Israelis to travel directly from settlements to Israel proper, which disrupted daily life for Palestinians, cut-off Palestinian contiguity, and impeded the PA from developing a coherent and effective system of governance.
Revealingly, Israel only formally supported some version of a Palestinian state after the onset of the second intifada and the election of hardlineras prime minister. But rather than a full withdrawal from the occupied territories and a fully sovereign state of Palestine, the type of deal Israel had in mind was a state in name only, hemmed in by settlement blocs, cordoned-off security areas and an open-ended security apparatus. With U.S.
In the past few years, Israeli politics have moved so far to the chauvinist right that the current government rules out any concessions to the Palestinians. With the surging influence of
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