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Oslo is dead: A Palestinian state will never exist
2023-09-10
[Jpost] Next week marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords, one of the most colossal strategic errors in modern Israel’s history.

Three decades after prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO terrorist-in-chief Yasser Arafat shook hands as a beaming US president Bill Clinton looked on, the smiles have long ago been erased thanks to the disaster wrought by the agreement.

And since the legacy of that catastrophic capitulation by the Jewish state is still very much with us, it is worth gazing back, however briefly, at the folly of that regrettable attempt to appease terror with territory.

Tossing logic to the wind, and blithely ignoring the warnings of senior IDF officials as well as the opposition, Rabin and foreign minister Shimon Peres inexplicably decided to rescue Arafat from political oblivion.

Despite his ignominious career ordering the hijacking of airlines and cruise ships, plotting school massacres, and reveling in the murder of innocents, Arafat was suddenly granted legitimacy as a "partner" by Israel’s government thanks to Oslo.
Socialist f@cktards needed Arab Israeli vote to return to power (in all fairness, there are good reasons to believe that Rabin was non compos mentos and a sock puppet for Peres)
OSLO PREDICTABLY RESULTED IN BLOOD AND TERROR
Not surprisingly, the aftermath of this turn of events was as bloody and lethal as it was predictable.

Consider the following: In the five years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, more Israelis were killed by Palestinian terrorists than in the 15 years prior to the agreement. A total of 279 men, women, and children were murdered in the half decade following the Accords, whereas 254 were killed in the 15 years that preceded it.

All told, there have been thousands of Israelis murdered and wounded by Palestinian terror in the past three decades, which is what Oslo was ostensibly supposed to prevent.

...Rabin and Peres went ahead and gave up plenty of land, but they most certainly did not receive any peace in return.

BY ANY measure, the Oslo experiment was the diplomatic equivalent of the Titanic, a grandiose exercise in hubris that crashed and sank, sending countless innocents to an early grave.

Nevertheless, until today Israel continues to suffer from Oslo, as various American and international leaders persist in their prattle about the necessity of a "two-state solution" and the need to create an independent Palestinian state.
They also say that gender is fluid, Earth will burn up in a few years, and - while the World needs USA as World Cop - American cities don't need cops.
...Oslo and its underlying principle of "land for peace" was an illusion founded upon the delusion that appeasing terror, rather than opposing it, was the answer.

But this is not a battle over borders, and it never has been. It is a clash of civilizations, a struggle between the Jewish people, who are reclaiming their ancestral homeland, and our numerous foes.

The fact is that there has never been a Palestinian state in all of history, and there isn’t one now.

And Israel should make clear, once and for all, that there never will be.

Thirty years on, we can say with confidence that Oslo and everything that it stood for is dead. Rather than trying to revive it, we would do well to offer it a fitting eulogy.
My proposal is to drop FAE (can't use nukes due to distances) on Gaza.
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Posted by:Grom the Reflective

#1  INTIFADA, (1989) a book written prior to the Israeli capitulation notes the dispute that existed involving Likud party members and the military; A dispute that made the Oslo Accords possible: "Dan Shamron, Amram Mitzna, and other members of the [Israel] General Staff repeatedly stated that the solution to the Intifada could not be a military one." Wrong then. Wrong now.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355   2023-09-10 09:36  

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