Oslo agreement .. 26 years of finishing on the city of Jerusalem

Aseel soldier - occupied Jerusalem

On September 13, 1993, the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Accords at the White House in Washington.

The agreement divided the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 administratively and security into "A", "B" and "C", but Jerusalem did not enter into that equation, where the agreement provided for the postponement and postponement of the issues of borders, refugees and settlements as well as negotiations for a final solution.

Postponing the decision on Jerusalem without restrictions was a strategic mistake made by the Palestinian side, as described by the analysts and Jerusalemites themselves, who did not clear the details of the agreement during the negotiations and were surprised by the results, which they described as disappointing.

Mohammad Jadallah, a resident of Jerusalem, told Al-Jazeera Net, "None of the Jerusalemites knew the secret of the negotiations between the two sides, but once the agreement was signed, everyone realized it was unfair to the stone, human beings and holy places in the occupied capital."

Jadallah added, "Israel has singled out Jerusalem since its occupation, and not only did it penetrate into Judaizing after the Oslo agreement without censor or reckless, where the names of streets and alleys of Jerusalem, and Islamic and Christian holy sites became permissible, and settlers settle security protection day and night, and this is what Oslo brought to Jerusalem And Jerusalemites. "

Hossam Abu Eisheh said that the Jerusalemites lived in a state of anticipation during the Oslo negotiations and were born with hope for a political breakthrough soon. "But I was especially suspicious that Israel was planning to sign Oslo to curb the first intifada, during which the Palestinians created resilience and bewildered the occupation. He found what he had in the Oslo agreement. "

Abu Eisha described the postponement of the issues of Jerusalem, borders, refugees and settlements to the issues of the final solution by mines and wondered why the PLO to approve and sign.

"Israel handed over to the Palestinian Authority daily life matters, such as running water and electricity services, forming municipalities, setting up institutions and keeping itself running strategic issues. This brought us to where we are today. America declares Jerusalem the capital of Israel, settlements swallow our lands, and we have no control over water sources and borders, We are hovering in the square zero after a quarter of a century of political delirium. "

Israeli sovereignty
Khalil al-Tufakji, director of the maps department at the Arab Studies Association, said Jerusalem has historically been treated as an occupied territory under Resolution 242 and has been subject to international laws, enabling the Palestinians to halt some Israeli measures that sought to impose sovereignty on Jerusalem.

After the agreement, Israel set a clear Jewish program towards the city, exploiting the issue of peace to achieve its strategic goals that Jerusalem would be indivisible after postponing the final status issues.

In 1992, before the signing of the agreement, there were 153,000 settlers in Jerusalem.Today, there are 220,000 settlers living in 15 settlements within the municipal boundaries, in addition to a number of outposts that are expanding and settlements to accommodate more Jews in the occupied city.

Al-Tufakji discussed the 2020 plan, which aims to integrate East Jerusalem with the West, and to educate and finish off everything that is Arab in the city, which will accelerate the transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

He said that Israel controls 87% of the city of Jerusalem, and is pursuing all cultural and recreational activities in the city after the closure of some Palestinian institutions by military orders, and expelled to others outside the municipal boundaries.

Amna Badran, head of the political science department at Al-Quds University, said that Oslo "reversed the balance of power and did not reflect a system of rights, because it was not based on international law as a whole, but reduced international law by resolutions 242 and 338, which reflect the result of the defeat in the 1967 war."

"The real gap is that after the Oslo Accords, Jerusalem was defined as a disputed and not occupied area, so the Palestinians lost the guarantee to maintain the status quo. Israel exploited the agreement to create new facts on the ground."