Now on the eve of the Memorial Day for Yitzhak Rabin, it’s time to name the guilty parties once and for all.
The account sheet shows that the “Oslo crime” was the massacre in the Tomb of the Patriarchs, and the “Oslo criminals” are the right-wingers who exploited the blood spilled in revenge for the massacre, to spearhead a wave of incitement that led to Rabin’s assassination.
The Rabin government, which came to power in July 1992, brought about a dramatic drop in terror attacks. In 1991, under the Shamir government, 105 people were killed in terror attacks. In 1992 the number was down to 31 (eight after Rabin’s government took office), and in 1993, before the Oslo Accordss were signed, 26 were killed.
The diplomacy led to a reduction in violence. The same was true in the days after the signing of the accords – up until the 1994 massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
On the eve of the Oslo Accordss, letters were exchanged between Rabin and Yasser Arafat, in which Arafat recognized Israel’s right to live in peace and security, announced the abandonment of the path of terror and the quest for a peaceful solution, alongside his recognition of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338.
The Oslo Accords created a new situation: The dozens of terror attacks that followed it were perpetrated mainly by Arafat’s opponents from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. PLO people were only involved in a few of the more than 60 terror attacks that took place between the time of the Oslo Accords and the Rabin assassination, and not in any of the mass-casualty attacks that shook the country.
A week after the Oslo Accords were signed on September 13, 1993, a string of attacks began, 22 in all. The wave continued through February 19, 1994. Twenty-nine Israelis were killed in these attacks, 20 in the territories and nine inside Israel.
One attack was carried out by someone from Fatah (the kidnapping and murder of Haim Mizrahi on October 29, 1993), and the rest were committed by people from Islamic Jihad, the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing and the Popular Front. In five of the attacks, the terrorists’ affiliations were unclear.
This all changed on February 25, 1994, the day of the massacre in the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the most serious nationalist killing since 1967. Was Baruch Goldstein – who entered the site on the Purim holiday and fired indiscriminately at hundreds of Muslim worshippers, killing 29 and wounding more than 100 – motivated by a desire for revenge, or a desire to launch a bloody cycle of revenge?
“Jewish blood” became a means to obtaining funding and construction for the settlements and an influx of troops so the Palestinians would see that “the government is with us” and be afraid. For many years, the “law of action and response” has been operating in the territories, wherein settlers provoke Palestinians, hoping for Palestinian revenge, and then exploit it to seize more land.
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The account sheet shows that the “Oslo crime” was the massacre in the Tomb of the Patriarchs, and the “Oslo criminals” are the right-wingers who exploited the blood spilled in revenge for the massacre, to spearhead a wave of incitement that led to Rabin’s assassination.
The Rabin government, which came to power in July 1992, brought about a dramatic drop in terror attacks. In 1991, under the Shamir government, 105 people were killed in terror attacks. In 1992 the number was down to 31 (eight after Rabin’s government took office), and in 1993, before the Oslo Accordss were signed, 26 were killed.
The diplomacy led to a reduction in violence. The same was true in the days after the signing of the accords – up until the 1994 massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
On the eve of the Oslo Accordss, letters were exchanged between Rabin and Yasser Arafat, in which Arafat recognized Israel’s right to live in peace and security, announced the abandonment of the path of terror and the quest for a peaceful solution, alongside his recognition of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338.
The Oslo Accords created a new situation: The dozens of terror attacks that followed it were perpetrated mainly by Arafat’s opponents from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. PLO people were only involved in a few of the more than 60 terror attacks that took place between the time of the Oslo Accords and the Rabin assassination, and not in any of the mass-casualty attacks that shook the country.
A week after the Oslo Accords were signed on September 13, 1993, a string of attacks began, 22 in all. The wave continued through February 19, 1994. Twenty-nine Israelis were killed in these attacks, 20 in the territories and nine inside Israel.
One attack was carried out by someone from Fatah (the kidnapping and murder of Haim Mizrahi on October 29, 1993), and the rest were committed by people from Islamic Jihad, the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing and the Popular Front. In five of the attacks, the terrorists’ affiliations were unclear.
This all changed on February 25, 1994, the day of the massacre in the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the most serious nationalist killing since 1967. Was Baruch Goldstein – who entered the site on the Purim holiday and fired indiscriminately at hundreds of Muslim worshippers, killing 29 and wounding more than 100 – motivated by a desire for revenge, or a desire to launch a bloody cycle of revenge?
“Jewish blood” became a means to obtaining funding and construction for the settlements and an influx of troops so the Palestinians would see that “the government is with us” and be afraid. For many years, the “law of action and response” has been operating in the territories, wherein settlers provoke Palestinians, hoping for Palestinian revenge, and then exploit it to seize more land.
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.750993
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