Israel-Palestine: from Oslo to the slippery slope
Some 22 years ago, the Oslo process brought Israelis and Palestinians into an accord that was supposed to produce an end to their conflict. It has not ended.
(Dette er den engelske utgaven av Yossi Alphers artikkel «Fra Oslo til glattisen», publisert i Vårt Land 9.9. Siden Alpher har et bredt internasjonalt publikum, publiseres den også på engelsk).
At present there is no Middle East peace process at all. Indeed, less than two years before we mark half a century to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Israel and Palestine together are seemingly sliding slowly down a slippery slope toward a nasty quasi-apartheid reality.
The latest push was Mahmoud Abbas´ very renunciation of the Oslo accords at the UN on Sept. 30 and, in response, Binyamin Netanyahu’s empty platitudes the next day. Meanwhile, throughout the region the political collapse of much of the Arab world will soon enter its sixth year.
