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August 1, 2023

By Failing to Hold Palestinian Leaders to Account, Israel Contributed to the Failures of Oslo

The PLO has repeatedly flouted its commitments, without facing consequences.

Since the Clinton administration’s attempts to negotiate a final settlement of the Israel-Palestinian conflict ended with the second intifada in 2000, various revisionist accounts have tried to place the blame on Jerusalem. Maurice Hirsch, looking back on the period that began with the Oslo Accords in 1993, argues that the Israeli government indeed shares some of the responsibility—but not in the way its critics normally assume:

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August 1, 2023

  1. The Possibilities, and Limits, of Israeli Reconciliation with Turkey

    Renewing ties with Ankara without risking relations with Greece and Cyprus.

  2. No, Israeli Society Isn’t Going to Unravel because of Domestic Strife

    In fact, it is bound to emerge strengthened by the current crisis.

  3. By Failing to Hold Palestinian Leaders to Account, Israel Contributed to the Failures of Oslo

    The PLO has repeatedly flouted its commitments, without facing consequences.

  4. Rationalists Face a Crisis of Unbelief

    Ivan Karamazov, Nietzsche’s Madman, and the lapsed atheist.

  5. A New Film Exposes a Massacre of Jews in a Quiet Austrian Town, on the Eve of the Nazis’ Defeat

    Endphase.