The slow death of the “Oslo culture”
JVL Introduction
Ramzy Baroud, journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle, describes the new mood in Palestine.
In it he discusses the two political discourses of recent decades.
The dominant discourse has been the “Oslo culture”, characterised by Baroud as “platitudes about peace and negotiations and, most importantly, billions of dollars, which poured in from donor countries”.
This discourse which has sustained Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority is on its last legs.
The “Oslo culture” is widely rejected as treacherous and corrupt.
In its place there is a return to – and reinvention of – models of radical resistance and popular revolt.
This article was originally published by Antiwar.Com on Fri 4 Jun 2021. Read the original here.
The Fumbling King of Palestine: Palestinians are Defeating the Oslo Culture
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Ramzy Baroud is always worth reading. The split between the elite and the 99% is evident both in the expensive suburbs of Ramallah and the “security” services whose operatives were- to me, anyway- indistinguishable from the Israeli ones, both in appearance and behaviour.
And it was certainly good to see the “moderate” Hanan Ashwari , who is sometimes even permitted to appear on CNN et al, speaking-out. I suppose it’s too much to hope that her fellow Christians here listen.
We could also help in the UK by demanding that the PFLP, as well as Hamas, are removed from the Home Office “terrorist” lists.
“Terrorism” lists are a shameful exercise of unbridled imperialist power. Usually they are a tribute to stalwart resistance against the world hegemon and its – how else can I describe their abusive and dysfunctional ‘special relationships – running dogs. Chomsky has a fine essay in one of the collections such as Blaming the Victims (Said and Hitchens) pointing out how the greatest terrorists are the US and Israel. Currently attacking ‘freedom of navigation’ for Iran is the bloodstained ‘representative’ Elliot Abrahams. And let us not forget NATO applicants the Azov Battalion and other (not very neo)Nazis in Ukraine.
This “Oslo culture”, or something remarkably similar to it, seems to have tightened its grip on the UK Labour Party.