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   Yasser Arafat. This instantly alienated many Palestinians, especially   
   those in Gaza where 75 percent are refugees or the descendants of   
   refugees. As a consequence, many Palestinians abandoned the PLO in   
   favor of Hamas. Edward Said called the Oslo Accords “an instrument of   
   Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles” and lambasted Arafat   
   as “the Pétain of the Palestinians.”   
      
   The scheduled Israeli military withdrawals under Oslo never took   
   place. There were around 250,000 Jewish colonists in the West Bank   
   when the Oslo agreement was signed. Their numbers today have increased   
   to at least 700,000.   
      
   The journalist Robert Fisk called Oslo “a sham, a lie, a trick to   
   entangle Arafat and the PLO into abandonment of all that they had   
   sought and struggled for over a quarter of a century, a method of   
   creating false hope in order to emasculate the aspiration of   
   statehood.”   
      
   Israel unilaterally broke the last two-month-long ceasefire on March   
   18 of this year when it launched surprise airstrikes on Gaza.   
   Netanyahu’s office claimed that the resumption of the military   
   campaign was in response to Hamas’s refusal to release hostages, its   
   rejection of proposals to extend the cease-fire and its efforts to   
   rearm. Israel killed more than 400 people in the initial overnight   
   assault and injured over 500, slaughtering and wounding people as they   
   slept. The attack scuttled the second stage of the agreement, which   
   would have seen Hamas release the remaining living male hostages, both   
   civilians and soldiers, for an exchange of Palestinian prisoners and   
   the establishment of a permanent ceasefire along with the eventual   
   lifting of the Israeli blockade of Gaza.   
      
   Israel has carried out murderous assaults on Gaza for decades,   
   cynically calling the bombardment “mowing the lawn.” No peace accord   
   or ceasefire agreement has ever gotten in the way. This one will be no   
   exception.   
      
   This bloody saga is not over. Israel’s goals remain unchanged: the   
   dispossession and erasure of Palestinians from their land.   
      
   The only peace Israel intends to offer the Palestinians is the peace   
   of the grave.   
      
   https://scheerpost.com/2025/10/11/chris-hedges-trumps-sham-peace-plan/   
      
      
   "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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