The day I finally lost hope for peace with the Palestinians Israel today

The Oslo Accords were concocted for two years and murdered in three days at the end of September 1996. In the wake of the events of the Western Wall Tunnel, when Israel and the Palestinian Authority began to count their dead, I finally heard the voice of the Palestinian counterpart, Colonel Ribhi admits and explains why the Palestinian police opened fire and killed us: " "The order was that of the chief (Arafat) and this is not a subject that can be debated." "Do you understand that you shot and eliminated the peace?" I struggled. "We fired? Yes. We eliminated the peace? Not necessarily. We can continue," he tried to comfort. The shooting and killing came as a surprise to us. A whole year of trying to build mutual trust, coordinating successful expectations and building a relationship together was futile. They were in complete reversal to the cloud that fell on us that fall of '96.

Exactly 25 years ago, I was included in a group of IDF officers called in certain circles in a contemptuous tone, Oslo officers. Together with my colleagues, we established the security coordination system with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, Indeed, the locomotive got on the tracks and began to pull its heavy carriages up the mountain. A hand for those who murdered Jews, also permission for PLO members to move in their uniforms that many mentioned horrific murders.

We believed that in doing so, we Israelis as Palestinians, putting the past aside and embarking on the long-awaited path of peace.

But Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who did not really believe it, was actually the one who murdered the idea of ​​peace.

The signing ceremony of the Oslo Accords, 1994, Gideon Markowitz

I mobilize all my Palestinian and Arab understanding and fail to scratch an inch of hope that one day the Palestinians will recognize my state as the state of the Jewish nation. I sum up thousands of conversations with the West Bank and find it difficult to understand the optimism of those who still believe in peace and ask them - who will agree to compromise on Jerusalem? The refugee issue? The settlements? On the borders and areas C? on the water? It is worth remembering that the Palestinians have not yet agreed to compromise on a single issue. I read Abu Mazen's body language by saying that no Palestinian leader would agree to go to his world and go down in history as the one who signed the historic compromise "with the Jew." His mouth and heart have never been so equal.

I hear the voices of quite a few Israelis who still believe that a peace agreement can be reached with the Palestinians.

I too once believed but I am sorry, no more.

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I read the words of the Palestinian leaders calling for jihad against Israel, I read the contents of the textbooks of soft children in Ramallah and Nablus that are a full reflection of the horrors of the horrific mosques and I watch the reading of squares and streets after the murderers of Jewish mothers.

Losing every glimmer of hope, I became a pessimist who has a hard time believing this can be fixed.

As painful as it may sound, it is first and foremost true.

One hundred years ago, since the Palestinian mob led by the Mufti al-Husseini ascended the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, the conflict has not stopped.

His landmarks are not dead letters in ignorance but a bloody, unstoppable ulcer: the events of Hebron, the events, the Nakba, Gush Etzion, Ma'aleh Akaravim, Deir Yassin, Kibia, the bloody bus, Maalot, the intifadas.

In Oslo in 1993, the desperate seeds of peace were sown.

In the fall of 1996, the seeds of his calamity were sown.

At Camp David 2000, the Palestinians were offered a voluntary divorce agreement.

Since then, they refuse to give us the divorce and even threaten "peace at home" just to destroy us (a bi-national state), until the next landmark.

Col. (Res.) Dr. Moshe Elad is a lecturer at the Western Galilee Academy, and served as head of the security coordination mechanism with the PA under the Oslo Accords.