Oslo... after thirty years

Thirty years have passed since the Oslo Accords and Understandings, and what happened in the first years is completely different from what happened in recent years.

The Palestinians voted in a high percentage in the first general elections for the first legislative council, with Yasser Arafat as president, so the Palestinian political system moved from a revolutionary system to a power system that should have been transformed within five years into a state system.

The scale of regional and international adoption of Oslo and what it promises has created reassurance for the Palestinians that for the first time in their history, they will inevitably go to an independent state established on the borders of June 4, 1967, with the opening of negotiations on what were called permanent status issues such as borders, refugees, settlement, and Jerusalem.

The Palestinians, along with the supporters of the Oslo idea and the historic peace project, did not notice that a small stone, if removed from the building, would inevitably lead to its collapse. This stone was the one vote that passed Oslo in the Knesset, and if it moved to the opposition, then the whole project would enter a tunnel that would lead to new places. Other than those designed as his conclusions.

Will life return to agreement?

Thirty years after the Oslo Accords and understandings, what is the situation now? Is there a logical justification for bringing it back to life, even with exorbitant downloads?!!!

The situation is now summed up in a short sentence. Oslo, the first years of the era of the duo Rabin and Peres, became a pile of rubble from which no settlement could be drawn. As for Oslo during the time of Netanyahu, only crumbs of security coordination remained that embarrassed the Palestinians and did not satisfy the Israelis. This is with an authority that is on the verge of collapse, and its fate (survival or collapse) is in the hands of American intercession with Israel to pump some water into its dry canals. Instead of the origin of the story being the size and characteristics of the future Palestinian state, what could be presented to the authority in order for it to remain alive is not a bet on its ability to lead a people and an effective partnership with the opponent, but rather a fear of the vacuum that will result from its collapse, opening the doors wide to uncontrolled developments. on her.

Picture the situation now
1- There is a government in Israel that is more right-wing and more extreme than all the governments that preceded it, including the governments of Begin, Shamir, and Sharon.

2- There is a democratic administration in America that raises the slogan of a two-state solution, without making any effort to achieve it.

What is worse is that a coup in the formula sponsored by the American administration put the cart before the horse and gave priority to Arab normalization with Israel at the expense of the priority of resolving the Palestinian issue.

3- In Palestine, there are multiple options to the point of disagreement and even contradiction between an authority in Ramallah that did not despair of the possibility of extracting a political solution from the rubble of Oslo and an authority in Gaza that no one knows what it can do or not do to market itself in regional and international equations.

As for the factions, some of them fight directly wherever their rifle bullets reach, others fight through intermediaries, contenting themselves with blessing the operations without adopting them, and some of them actually merge into power while retaining their name. This is at the level of the divided political class. As for the community level, which constitutes more than eighty percent of the activities of the people and the cause, he chose to move forward in building his life without having to neglect the principles of his cause. The facilities you see in the country are of his own making and as a result of his initiatives.

Oslo's rosy promises have turned into a pile of rubble, but that does not mean at all the liquidation of a cause and the end of a people. Rather, the exact opposite is happening. The Palestinian, inside or outside the homeland, whether rich or poor, still feels the pain of losing dignity and freedom inside the homeland, and national identity outside it. Due to this feeling, his cause will remain alive, and he will continue to be a burden to Israel and to the entire world if he does not find a solution that he is satisfied with and in which he sees his salvation.