Three decades later, invoking “Oslo” in the context of the Middle East conjures up a feeling of defeat.
Israel has decidedly gained more from what the Oslo accords ushered in than the Palestinians.
above that of most European countries. At the same time, under the illusion of an established process for peace, Israel entrenched its de facto control over the Palestinian territories. The Oslo accords gave us what New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently described as “the shared fiction that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank was only temporary.”That fiction was embraced by successive U.S.
And so the Oslo illusion churns along, buttressed by the international community. “To this day, European governments and institutions pour money into the fabled ‘people to people’ component of the Oslo paradigm,”
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