Oslo War
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This article is about the term Oslo War, not about the object itself, which is described under its more common name, the Al-Aqsa Intifada.
The Oslo War is a term used mainly by right-wing Jews for what the rest of the world calls the "Al-Aqsa Intifada" or the "Second Intifada". The name implies a belief that the upsurge in violence resulted not, as most believe, from the failure of the peace process, but rather because the Palestinian side deliberately pursued the Oslo Accords in order to further a violent campaign against Israel. Alternatively, the term implies that the terrorism war against in Israel was enabled by the terms of the Oslo Accords, such as the granting of guns and a para-military police force to the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Israeli Defense Forces codenamed the violence " אירועי גיאות ושפל " ("Ebb and Tide events").
The worldview evident from this term has many other ramifications in terminology and rhetorics. The Israeli "architects" of Oslo are often accused, by those who use this term, of blindness and naivety. There is a slogan among right-wing activists that calls to investigate the Oslo architects and put them on trial (in Hebrew it reads פושעי אוסלו לדין literally "Judge the Oslo criminals").
An opposing viewpoint, held both in Palestine and elsewhere, is that the peace process duped the Palestinians into abandoning their struggle against Israel in return for benefits that failed to materialise, for example statehood and a freeze on Israeli seizures of Palestinian land, which increased markedly [1] (http://www.fmep.org/reports/2001/v11n1.pdf) under the Accords. These are not the only possible readings of the situation — in fact, they share the belief that the Oslo Accords were a sham negotiated in bad faith (though differing on who was responsible for the deception). Others maintain that the negotiations were in good faith and the collapse of the peace process should rather be attributed to subsequent political developments or unrealistic flaws in the details of the negotiated framework.