MIDDLE EAST FORUM
The Oslo Disaster: Executive Summary
by Efraim Karsh
September 14, 2016

Viewed from a 23-year vantage point, the Oslo “peace process” between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) stands as one of the worst-ever calamities to have hit Israelis and Palestinians. For Israel, it has been the starkest strategic blunder in the country’s history – establishing an ineradicable terror entity on Israel’s doorstep, deepening its internal cleavages, destabilizing its political system, and weakening its international standing. For West Bank and Gaza Palestinians, it has brought about subjugation to corrupt and repressive PLO and Hamas regimes – regimes that have reversed the hesitant advent of civil society in these territories, shattered their socioeconomic wellbeing, and made the prospects for peace and reconciliation with Israel ever more remote.  READ MORE