It is obvious to everyone today, both here in Israel and abroad, that the ?Grand Experiment? of the Oslo Accords has proven a monumental failure. If one considers for a moment how this disaster came about, one can see the need for the architects of Oslo Accords, and all of those who blindly supported them over the last seven bloody years to be called to the Bar of Justice to pay the penalty for their irresponsibility.
This nation suffered through a series of traumatic incidents, as the Rabin Administration committed the nation to one disastrous agreement with the PLO after another. In order to pursue the Oslo chimera, every effort was made to silence any opposition to the Oslo Accords, including violent attacks against right-wing opponents, the placement of agents provocateur, scurrilous attacks on right-wing institutions and individuals in the press and instigating innumerable legal problems for the right-wing leadership.
Mine is not the first voice to be raised in a call for accountability (see Ari Shavit, ?Israeli Left should take responsibility for Oslo War?, Ha'aretz 22 February 2001), nor will it be the last. The people who brought this disaster upon us, and those who worked to continue it over the last seven years must pay for all the anguish they have wrought. Since the Oslo Accords were signed on 9/13/93, more than 560 Jews have died in terror attacks, and an even larger number of Arabs have been killed during violent riots and attacks against Jewish civilians and Israeli military sites. Over four hundred people, Arabs and Jews, have lost their lives and well over a thousand have been wounded only in the last five months.
Not only have these individuals proven themselves irresponsible stewards of the security and prosperity of the State of Israel, they have worked to create and perpetuate divisions within our society in order to protect their policies from dissent and close inspection. Since so many Arabs and Jews have lost their lives or suffered traumatic life-changing injuries, and so many parents and children have experienced the horror of burying a family member, it is neither right nor fitting that the Oslo perpetrators be allowed to continue their lives as if nothing has happened.
There must be public hearings to identify these individuals and prepare charge sheets against them. These hearings must not be allowed to drag on, as is the tendency of the judiciary in this country when politicians are involved. Too, these hearings cannot be run under the supervision of the current judiciary. This Board must not be made up of politicians or retired judges, but ordinary citizens from all walks of life.
It is the ordinary citizen whose life has been so traumatically affected by the Oslo Disaster. It is the fruit seller in the market place in Netanya who has suffered, the taxi driver in Jerusalem, the schoolteacher in the Gaza Strip, the widow of the police officer in Lod. Let those who have suffered the most determine the fate of those who brought this disaster upon us.
I call upon each and every citizen of the State of Israel to demand the establishment of a Board to begin this investigation.
Such is the weight of the disaster the architects and perpetrators of the Oslo Disaster have brought to this State that, at a minimum, they must never be allowed to hold public office, ever again. Nor must they ever to be allowed to act as the representative of any government this country may ever form in the future.
This nation suffered through a series of traumatic incidents, as the Rabin Administration committed the nation to one disastrous agreement with the PLO after another. In order to pursue the Oslo chimera, every effort was made to silence any opposition to the Oslo Accords, including violent attacks against right-wing opponents, the placement of agents provocateur, scurrilous attacks on right-wing institutions and individuals in the press and instigating innumerable legal problems for the right-wing leadership.
Mine is not the first voice to be raised in a call for accountability (see Ari Shavit, ?Israeli Left should take responsibility for Oslo War?, Ha'aretz 22 February 2001), nor will it be the last. The people who brought this disaster upon us, and those who worked to continue it over the last seven years must pay for all the anguish they have wrought. Since the Oslo Accords were signed on 9/13/93, more than 560 Jews have died in terror attacks, and an even larger number of Arabs have been killed during violent riots and attacks against Jewish civilians and Israeli military sites. Over four hundred people, Arabs and Jews, have lost their lives and well over a thousand have been wounded only in the last five months.
Not only have these individuals proven themselves irresponsible stewards of the security and prosperity of the State of Israel, they have worked to create and perpetuate divisions within our society in order to protect their policies from dissent and close inspection. Since so many Arabs and Jews have lost their lives or suffered traumatic life-changing injuries, and so many parents and children have experienced the horror of burying a family member, it is neither right nor fitting that the Oslo perpetrators be allowed to continue their lives as if nothing has happened.
There must be public hearings to identify these individuals and prepare charge sheets against them. These hearings must not be allowed to drag on, as is the tendency of the judiciary in this country when politicians are involved. Too, these hearings cannot be run under the supervision of the current judiciary. This Board must not be made up of politicians or retired judges, but ordinary citizens from all walks of life.
It is the ordinary citizen whose life has been so traumatically affected by the Oslo Disaster. It is the fruit seller in the market place in Netanya who has suffered, the taxi driver in Jerusalem, the schoolteacher in the Gaza Strip, the widow of the police officer in Lod. Let those who have suffered the most determine the fate of those who brought this disaster upon us.
I call upon each and every citizen of the State of Israel to demand the establishment of a Board to begin this investigation.
Such is the weight of the disaster the architects and perpetrators of the Oslo Disaster have brought to this State that, at a minimum, they must never be allowed to hold public office, ever again. Nor must they ever to be allowed to act as the representative of any government this country may ever form in the future.