Palestine and the Oslo bottleneck

30 years ago, part of the Palestinian political movement was optimistic about the outcome of the Oslo Accords. Whoever was fifty years old in 1993 is eighty years old today, and some of them are experiencing disappointments in optimism. The entire Judaization project and attempts at Israelization throughout historical Palestine could not have become anything other than what it is, a system of apartheid, and the undermining of the foundations of the “two-state solution.” The matter did not appear suddenly, as former Mossad official Tamir Pardo admits.

When the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was besieged, about 10 years had passed since Oslo. It seemed that the matter would not be higher than the ceiling of a “self-governing authority,” and with an intense recall of the practices of the former apartheid regime in South Africa. The most that the Zionist-Talmudic project has in store is to improve the status of “cantons” (and perhaps isolated emirates), while sweeping away settlements, to include everything without exceptions, giving free rein to its terrorist groups, and targeting the future of the Palestinians of the 1948s, to suppress any Palestinian liberation aspirations in the future.

What is more dangerous is calling upon the experience of black people in South Africa to oppress the “population” to prevail in Palestine, with trivial arguments about “terrorism” and “peace,” and with the mouthpieces of Arab printers engaging in marketing. This is in addition to a Zionist public relations attack on most continents, in the face of clear Arab retreat.

All of this is understood by the Palestinian movement and the street. The Oslo bottleneck does not exclude anyone. All the awareness that arises from Zionist apartheid, and the efforts of the international boycott movement (BDS), requires that the Palestinian national movement, in all its shades, stand up to the fact that neither individuals nor programs are at the level of resistance to apartheid. The state of stagnation and stagnation, with all the division and internal and regional retreat that this entails, creates frustration, instead of benefiting from the enormous energies of Palestinian youth, at home and in the diaspora. When was the last time the Palestinian street experienced a true exercise of democracy of choice and the manifestation of its will in its institutions and political movement?

The state of awareness of the reality of the apartheid state requires a different vitality in order to accumulate what the international movement has accumulated towards dismantling and ending apartheid in South Africa in 1994 irreversibly.

In other words, and there is no need to be afraid to admit it, postponing a serious stance on the future of the national liberation program, so that it does not grow old with those in charge of it, means more wasted time and effort. The Palestinian people, who have resisted and resisted the Zionist project for three-quarters of a century, know their priorities, understand the tools of their struggle, and have the right to say their decisive word in determining the fate and future of their liberation.