Summary
The politics Razek says Israel mastered by creating facts on the ground under the Oslo Accords — settlement expansion, land theft, transfer and fragmentation — “making realities seem as irreversible, accomplished facts” (Thirty Years On: The Ruse of the Middle East Peace Process, line 263).
Details
- The facts created, in Razek’s account: separating Jerusalem from the West Bank, forcibly transferring Palestinians, encouraging settler population growth, military and firing zones, denial of agricultural land and water, home demolitions, the Apartheid Wall, and a full blockade on Gaza, advancing a “maximum land with a minimal number of Arabs” doctrine (lines 259-263).
- Its consequence for negotiation, in Razek’s pull-quote: “It is … unfathomable—indeed, absurd—to expect Palestinians to negotiate their freedom and fundamental rights while Israel continues colonization and entrenching apartheid as a fait accompli” (line 233).
Related pages
Thirty Years On: The Ruse of the Middle East Peace Process, Middle East Peace Process, Settler Colonialism, Apartheid