Foreign Policy: After 30 years of Oslo Accords… All the Palestinians got was KFC
Foreign Policy said that, since the signing of the Oslo Accords, which passed 30 years ago, Gaza has been attacked several times, resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent people, and settlement construction has continued unabated.
Economic peace only beautified the ugly reality represented by the Israeli occupation.
Acording to the Foreign Policy, the Palestinian Intifada turned, over the years, into the “Knives Intifada,” the “Car Run Over Intifada,” and the “Lone Wolf Intifada,” after “the Israeli attacks on the Palestinians increased, which prompted the Palestinian people to use new methods of revenge.
The year 2014 was the peak of improvised and uncoordinated attacks, which were mostly carried out by young men who did not belong to Palestinian factions, who began using kitchen knives, or ran over Israelis with their cars.
The Israeli authorities at the time didn’t know what to do about these isolated attacks, so they continued to do what they do best: collective punishment of Palestinians.
Most, if not all, of the homes in which the attackers and suspected attackers lived were demolished, and their family homes were turned, often in the dark of the night, into ruins.
Foreign Policy added, that half a million Israeli settlers live today in the West Bank, and Israel and its violence, which knows no bounds, encouraged them to expand settlement, and Palestinian villages and towns bore the brunt of this violence more than others.
Attacks and harassment carried out by settlers have become a regular occurrence, largely with impunity.
Last February, hundreds of Israeli settlers invaded the town of Huwwara, near Nablus, causing It resulted in casualties, cars and homes were burned, and the violence was so brutal that the Israeli military commander in the West Bank described it as a massacre.
Foreign Policy noted that dozens of videos showed Israeli soldiers standing idly by, unwilling to protect the Palestinians, while settlers set fire to Palestinian homes and institutions, in addition to preventing emergency services from responding.
The current Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, is still calling for “wiping out Hawara”.
Foreign Policy confirmed that, 30 years after Oslo, international anger and condemnation come and go, and worst of all, the Palestinians don’t enjoy legitimate political representation.
The Oslo Accords were like a mirage that vanished as quickly as its ink dried, as the Palestinians after that only gained an increase in the number of restaurants, cafes, and the famous “KFC” outlets, which failed to embellish the “ugly truth” represented by the Israeli occupation.
