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...second pitfall is the "road map for peace." Its title insists that it is "performance-based," but the text reveals a timetable that is calendar based. This repeats the mistake of the catastrophic Oslo "peace process," in which Israel acquiesced to the establishment of an Arafat mini-state, without Arafat's being held to his pledges to control weaponry, crack down on terrorism and cease anti-Israel incitement. No one wanted to halt the peace train by demanding compliance. The result was a bloody wreck...
...road map with Arafat still clinging to power and with Abu Mazen unproved is a bad omen. By rewarding the Palestinians before Arafat is gone and by demanding Israeli concessions while the violence continues, it belies the very premise of the June 24 policy, the only policy since Oslo that has produced real progress...
...Oslo promised the transformation of attitudes but didn’t produce [these] transformations,” Ross said. “Though the [Palestinians] agreed to renounce violence....there was never an effort to delegitimize violence...
Shikaki remarked similarly that the Oslo Accords were “too open-ended” and did not demand enough commitment on both the Israeli and Palestinian fronts...
...It’s encouraging that there is such a systemic examination of the Oslo Negotiations,” Omer said...