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The P.A. has seemed, since Oslo, to view all agreements with Israel as fundamentally optional, except when Israelās obligations are in question. The most glaring examples: Yasser Arafatās orchestration of the Second Intifada in 2000, and the continuance of the hateful classroom indoctrination of Palestinian youth in blatant violation of the Oslo Accords, which Arafat signed.
But the Palestinian disdain for the entire āpeace processā is even more foundational than these egregious behaviors that violate the letter and spirit of the agreements.
In 1964, three years before the Six-Day War and Israelās retaking control of the West Bank, the founders of the Palestine Liberation Organization ratified the Palestinian National Covenant as a constitution. Note that this original document disavowed any interest at all in āliberatingā the West Bank, seized by Jordan in 1949, or the Gaza Strip, which was occupied by Egypt.
(full article online)
Palestinians threaten to void agreements with Israel? No big deal
But the Palestinian disdain for the entire āpeace processā is even more foundational than these egregious behaviors that violate the letter and spirit of the agreements.
In 1964, three years before the Six-Day War and Israelās retaking control of the West Bank, the founders of the Palestine Liberation Organization ratified the Palestinian National Covenant as a constitution. Note that this original document disavowed any interest at all in āliberatingā the West Bank, seized by Jordan in 1949, or the Gaza Strip, which was occupied by Egypt.
(full article online)
Palestinians threaten to void agreements with Israel? No big deal