[lbo-talk] Oslo and its aftermath

[Shane Mage]

Michael Pugliese quotes:
>
>...Shattered Dreams begins on the night of the assassination of 
>Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin, November 4, 1995, and ends with 
>the election of Ariel Sharon in February 2001. From the first page, 
>giving Enderlin's personal account of the fateful Tel Aviv rally 
>that was to draw a sharp line between a period of hopeful 
>Israeli-Palestinian relations and another much less hopeful 
>one...You see the leading actors-Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, 
>Yasir Arafat, Saeb Erekat, Abu Mazen, Bill Clinton, Madeleine 
>Albright, to name only a few...

Missing is the name of the principal culprit--Shimon Peres.  By
refusing to call an immediate election after the assassination of
Rabin (for which a big majority of Israelis rightly blamed Likud),
and by refusing to act against the settler mafia, Peres allowed
the right to regroup and then stage the terrorist provocations
that gave power to Netanyahu and buried the already moribund
Oslo "peace process" (fully confirming, by the way, Eduard Said's
prescient analysis of Oslo).

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all 
things."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64