Rabbi Avraham Feld: "Oslo" (part one of a series of "Hazardous Facts")

Hear Ye. Hear Ye! The following facts may be hazardous to your health and the health of all freedom loving peoples!

THE TRUTH COMES TOO LATE

There is not and has never been a validated Oslo Accord between the PLO/PA and the State of Israel. What, you may exclaim? Why then does the media constantly engage in discussing this agreement as if it were live and well and agreed upon by two sides? Has it been forgotten that the Palestinian ruling body never signed this accord? Why does Israel along with many nations of the world proceed as if it were valid and considered so by two sides? The fact is that despite the status of the agreement, Israel continued along giving the PA billions of dollars, weapons, land
concessions and political autonomy? This is a bitter realization; that so
many sacrifices were made for an agreement existing in theory only. The
media continued to push under the carpet the fact that the old covenant
calling for the destructing of Israel was alive and well in the PLO/PA
committees, while Oslo remained unsigned. Everybody seemed to recognize the Oslo Accords - with the important exclusion of one of the two parties bound by the agreement. Now, there is anger that this fact remained clouded over, and only after the granting of autonomy, with the following terrible bloodshed, serious injuries and loss of life, destruction, and damage to Israel's socioeconomic structures, this fact become painfully clear. Why now are we just being told that there never was a valid accord? For what did we stake so many lives?

THE MECHANICS OF AN INVALID AGREEMENT

The truth is, as stated above; there is not and never was a valid Oslo
Agreement. After himself signing the accords, Arafat summoned the PLO's
executive committee to session but was not able or did not wish to succeed in achieving a quorum. Therefore no vote could be held at this time. Arafat may have called for further meetings but out of opposition to Oslo, various factions always succeeded in boycotting critical meetings. Not then, and not ever was a favorable vote achieved in this committee. In addition, after three sessions of the Fatah Central Committee, it was decided that no vote would be held. Arafat never even attempted to convene the PLO National Council, where he might try again and petition for approval of the accords. (The above is equivalent to the parliamentary rejection of a Prime Ministers proposal – or a presidents failure to win approval either in the House, the Senate or his own Cabinet.) Therefore, all that was received by America, Israel, and the rest of the world was a piece of paper signed by one master criminal terrorist, not validated by parties of leadership and with no binding legal power over the PLO-PA. The media continued to emphasize the acceptance by one man of the accords, but Arafat's signature did not create a working Accord. It certainly did not
replace the old militantly anti-Semitic Covenant which remained as the
PLO/PA's official reference and legislative machine. The basis for a
lethal situation had already been laid, A documented calling for
compromise, mutual rights, a laying down of arms and mutual trust, was
signed, seriously studied and implemented by one of the opposing sides, was phlegmatically ignored by the other, and with more then a little help form the media was cheered and applauded by the rest of the world.
In addition to the above, there are many experts who believe that Arafat
himself was against the accords, and that he himself instructed and
engineered the blockage of the accords.

SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE

Despite the media's insistence that the PA\PLO had changed some of the
statutes of the covenant, (and specifically the statutes calling for
Israel's destruction) this simply was not so. The PLO continued to act
according to it's old covenant. They simply used the old Palestinian
covenant as a basis to legislate new laws when needed.

The Oslo accords were never legal, were never ratified, and were never made binding to any of the PLO organizations. Hence, the continued terror,
support of terror, and sedition of the PA/PLO never violated any
agreements, because they had never accepted them upon themselves Arafat's scribblings. As one PLO member once said, the White House and the Israelis can scribble on toilet paper all they want. And if Arafat signs at the end of the roll, it still has nothing to do with us.

Just imagine the volume of the noise, the hysteria, panic and screaming
the media would make in the case of any government that tried to push down peoples throats, without referendum etc, a right-wing religious agenda based on a nonratified agreement with a foreign suspect entity. That’s right. The outcry would reach the high heavens, would be nonstop 24/7, and would result in legal sanctions against such moves. In our case, a left-wing agenda made with an arch-criminal terrorist and never ratified by the groups he supposedly represented, met with absolute silence. The media demonstrated moral bankruptcy and negligence that could be considered criminal. In other words, reviving the real old-fashioned soviet style of reporting.