Count Folke Bernadotte: Sweden's Servant of Peace (2010) • Hacker News Board

Post by bjourne » Mon, Sep 22, 2025, 3:09 PM UTC

breppp wrote: post #68

ylabidi wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The context from the Palestinian side is quite different and comparing the two is flawed for many reasons: There was never a consensus on the Oslo accords from both sides. While the Israeli Labor pushed for the process, the Likud and the rest of right wingers worked thoroughly to undermine it. And on the Palestinian side, the OLP, essentially Fatah, went on to accept terms every other Palestinian faction refused to a…

There was consensus in the Israeli public which fell apart gradually during Hamas suicide bombing campaign in the 1990s, while many Israelis naively believed in peace and refused to come to terms with Arafat actually leading the Second Intifada a few years into the Intifada. Regarding a landlocked mosaic, that was the reality of the interim agreement but was far from the situation offered to the Palestinians in multi…

Such ridiculous Hasbara. There was never an Israeli public consensus. That Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist tells you as much. Moreover, the Hebron mosque massacre preceded Hamas's suicide bombings. Jewish terrorism is as much to blame for derailing the peace process as Palestinian irredentism is. Then you have Benjamin Netanyahu, elected prime minister of Israel in 1997 who in 2001 boasted: "I de facto put an end to the Oslo Accords"

All while Israel was rapidly expanding its settlements on the West Bank. States generally don't build settlements on territory they intend to relinquish.