Peace of Illusions Oslo Before and After The Secret Negotiations Between the Arabs and Israel Book Three

It was Peres who discerned the possible opportunity in Oslo and, through various means, was able to convince or draw Rabin behind him. Rabin approached the opportunity hesitantly, rejecting it intellectually and emotionally, but consoling himself that it might fulfill his need to scatter the Intifada, the uprising of stones, after its bones had become impossible to break. It might also contain the threat of Islamist movements, whose increasing growth had begun to worry him. The recurrence of their suicide attacks troubled him, especially since they confront the Israeli army with a type of resistance he was unfamiliar with. What’s more, he didn’t understand it, and its moral and material costs were high, and its defense against them was extremely difficult, as Rabin recounted during his last visit to Cairo. He added: “How can the IDF plan scientifically against people racing madly toward death?” In the simplest of assumptions, Rabin hoped that if an agreement were signed with the PLO, the Palestinian Authority would take care of the livelihoods of the Palestinian population, where their concentrations are concentrated in Gaza and the West Bank. At the same time, he hoped that this Palestinian Authority would take on the task of eliminating the “resistance.”