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Aren't they given a golden opportunities to accept the final implementation of Oslo at Camp David? They turned down and choose confrontation.
Golden opportunities? It was implicit that the Oslo Accords by the parties (Rabin, Arafat, Clinton) would lead to a Palestinian State with pre-1967 borders. But the Israelis were never sincere about implementing Oslo and they effectively scuppered the deal when they allowed settlements to grow unabated as well as expand the militarization of the occupied terrorities.
Typical Israeli modus operandi: promise one thing to ease international pressure, quietly pursue the opposite objectives.
In Netanyahu's own words:
In a 2001 video, Netanyahu, reportedly unaware he was being recorded, said: "They asked me before the election if I'd honor [the Oslo accords]... I said I would, but [that] I'm going to interpret the accords in such a way that would allow me to put an end to this galloping forward to the '67 borders. How did we do it? Nobody said what defined military zones were. Defined military zones are security zones; as far as I'm concerned, the entire Jordan Valley is a defined military zone. Go argue."[SUP][9][/SUP][SUP][10][/SUP] Netanyahu then explained how he conditioned his signing of the 1997 Hebron agreement on American consent that there be no withdrawals from "specified military locations", and insisted he be allowed to specify which areas constituted a "military location"—such as the whole of the Jordan Valley. "Why is that important? Because from that moment on I stopped the Oslo Accords", Netanyahu affirmed.[SUP][11][/SUP]
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