Palestinian death of the Oslo Accords
NOVANEWS
8.26.2016 | Demolitions in Um al-Khair, West Bank
Cody O'Rourke
Much ink has been spilled eulogizing the death of the Oslo Accords lately. It’s been easy work for critics. They just dust off last year’s work, update the numbers of Israeli settlers living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to seven hundred thousand. They take a few moments to creatively rewrite last year’s paragraph on how Israeli policies continue to methodically work to retain control over as much of the land’s natural resources as possible. To find a different tone, they might point out that Israel’s land and resource control policies have necessitated pushing Palestinians into heavily guard...