Oslo’s Legacy: De Facto Annexation and an International Mandate for Subjugation

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. president Bill Clinton, and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. Image Wikipedia.

The Oslo Accords were never a peace process. They were distractions, a scam to neutralize the Palestinian movement and give reactionary Arab dictators a fig leaf to normalize with Israel. They were a political deception, aimed at ending the Palestinian civil uprising (Intifada), dismantling the armed struggle, and granting Israel time, space, and international cover to quietly complete its colonization of Palestine.