On Aug. 30, 1993, two weeks prior to the signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, better known as the Oslo I Accord, an angry Benjamin Netanyahu, then head of the opposition, took to the Knesset podium. "We will use all legitimate means at the disposal of a democratic opposition to stop this foolish process, which endangers the very future of the country," he declared.
Nowadays — on the agreement’s 25th anniversary — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can declare victory, although any more such victories will truly spell an end to the State of Israel.
Twenty-five years have passed since US President Bill Clinton helped deliver the “foolish process,” as Netanyahu dubbed it, to the sound of wailing religious zealots and nationalists from both sides. Now, President Donald Trump is digging its grave to the cheering of the rejectionist camps in the Israeli settlement movement in the West Bank and the Hamas movement in Gaza.
Every few days, the White House comes out with new sanctions that Trump has decided to impose on the Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian Authority (PA). One by one, the two gravediggers of peace (Netanyahu and Trump) are systematically dismantling the pillars of the two-state paradigm founded in Oslo.
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