In a shameless op-ed Dennis Ross defends the Oslo Accords and argues that Biden should revive its spirit to seal a Saudi/Israel deal.

All these decades after Oslo, we should recognize that there is no solution without the full liberation of Palestine. Oslo has become the litmus test for how sincere one is about the liberation of Palestine.

Thirty years on, the legacy of Oslo has given birth to two parallel worlds — one that rejects the order that Oslo created, and one that will stop at nothing to preserve it.

After 30 years of Oslo, the only remaining alternative to apartheid is one democratic state with equal national and civil rights, including the right of self-determination for the Palestinian people.

It was clear from the start the Oslo Accords were designed to fail. Early critics were derided as “anti-peace,” but the lesson from Oslo is to read the writing on the wall.

Thirty years after the Oslo Accords were designed to institute Palestinian defeat, resistance continues, and so does the cycle of loss.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently said that the two-state solution in Israel/Palestine is, if not already dead, “in hospice.” Now it’s time for news reporters at his paper and other mainstream U.S. media, to look squarely at how and why two states is no longer possible. Instead, the two-state solution is supposedly still the ideal — for the U.S. government, among others. The headline after the U.S. Secretary of State’s arrival in Israel yesterday was, predictably: “Blinken reaffirms need for two-state solution after talks with Netanyahu.”

For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told, even by their leaders, that the Nakba is a thing of the past. However, with Palestinian reality worsening under the deepening system of Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid, Palestinians now understand that they have no possible alternative but their unity, their resistance and the return to the fundamentals of their struggle.

To say the current Palestinian political crisis is simply a Hamas-Fatah split is to ignore a history of division that cannot be solely blamed on Palestinians.

The Palestinian people have not only been fragmented by Israel, but also by its own corrupted leadership. It is up to grassroots activists and intellectuals to correct the capitulation of the Oslo elite.