From the Illusion of Settlement to the Entrenchment of Occupation

With the recent decisions of the occupation government, Oslo has become meaningless, not only on the ground but also as a document of understandings aimed at reaching a just settlement and a comprehensive solution. This was followed by statements from the occupation's finance minister, who said: "With these decisions, we are burying the establishment of a Palestinian state." He means this due to what these decisions represent in terms of encroachment, annexation, and Judaization, in addition to restricting Palestinian life, supporting settlers, and providing them with protection to continue their attacks on people who find no protection from anyone and are subjected to constant abuse, especially in rural areas and on the outskirts of Palestinian cities.Oslo has fallen, and there is no regret for it. It is true that it was a nucleus for the establishment of a Palestinian state, but after many years, it became a burden weighing down the Palestinian with conditions, pledges, and promises. And because it did not lead us to the desired state, there is no regret for it, because its goal was not achieved, due to Israeli rejection and the intransigence of successive governments, especially the governments of the far-right that wanted to end Oslo, which they considered the great sin committed by the Labor Party at the time when it signed it in the White House garden under international patronage and global and UN presence. The Israeli right has sought since that day to kill the peace process, which no sooner began than the then-Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by a member of the far-right. Years passed, and whenever a knot towards a solution was untied, Netanyahu added ten more knots to the path, which has remained faltering until today. Oslo continued to burden the Palestinian leadership and people with pledges and conditions, while the Israeli side continued to evade implementing the requirements of the agreement and the agreed-upon clauses.What the racist right, led by Netanyahu, sought to impose, it tries to enforce sometimes with military force, oppression, and extermination, and other times with military laws that contribute to creating a distorted reality on the ground in terms of geography and a flawed demography, making the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state impossible when settlements cut off all geographical communication between the city, village, and refugee camp. Jerusalem was also isolated from its Arab Palestinian surroundings, besieged by the wall and surrounded by settlements from all sides. All of this happens while the world's voice is faint; neither international institutions nor the Security Council move to protect their own resolutions, nor does Trump change his policies and excessive bias, nor is the region capable of warding off the dangers threatening the Palestinian cause, nor is the Palestinian people united according to a unified strategy of action and a defensive line agreed upon by all Palestinians, to be a lifeline in this dangerous stage of our national cause's life.