by Barry Rubin
The
Palestinian leadership, abetted by many Western governments, has now
torn up every agreement it made with Israel. Once the efforts of two
decades of negotiations—including irrevocable Israeli compromises in
giving the Palestinian Authority control over territory, its own armed
forces, dismantling settlements, and permitting billions of dollars of
foreign aid to the Palestinians—were destroyed, the world has decided to
focus the blame on Israel approving the construction of 3000
apartments.
In 1993,
Israel signed an agreement with the PLO to make peace in the
Israel-Palestinian conflict. The accord, known as the Oslo agreement,
included the following passage in Article 31:
“Neither side
shall initiate or take any step that will change the status of the West
Bank and the Gaza Strip pending the outcome of the permanent status
negotiations.”
By essentially unilaterally declaring the existence of an Arab Palestine, the world has abrogated that agreement.
What is
shocking is not just that this has happened but there has been no
discussion much less hesitation by dozens of countries to destroy an
agreement that they hitherto supported. Indeed, a study of the history
of this agreement shows clearly that the Palestinian side prevented the
accord from succeeding, most obviously by permitting and carrying out
continuing terrorism and rejecting Israeli offers for a Palestinian
state with its capital in east Jerusalem both in the 2000 Camp David
summit and in the ensuing offer conveyed by President Bill Clinton at
the end of that year.Read the whole article
Barry Rubin
Source: http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/israel-has-no-other-alternative-but.html
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