Palestinians have rallied in the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah, to express their anger over the US-brokered 1993 Oslo Agreement.
The rally was held on Friday which marked the twentieth anniversary of the agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel.
The demonstrators shouted anti-Israeli slogans and called for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. International activists also took part in the anti-Israeli demonstration.
The late PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, signed the US-sponsored agreement with Israel at the White House on September 13, 1993.
It was the first face-to-face agreement between the Israeli regime and the PLO. But Palestinians say the agreement was a total failure since it failed to protect their rights and end the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Prominent Palestinian commentator, Edward Said, said shortly after the agreement that the Oslo Accord was basically “an instrument of Palestinian surrender” and “the second victory in the history of Zionism,” following the establishment of Israel in 1948 on the Palestinian territory.
According to Said, the PLO™s recognition of Israel by virtue of the Oslo Agreement granted Israeli control over the territories it occupied during the 1967 war, and further allowed Israel the right to negotiate on the remainder of the territories that it annexed by power during the Six-Day War.
The Palestinians did receive nothing in return but more aggressive settlement activities.
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