From Kenneth Levin’s “The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege” (Smith & Kraus, Inc. 2005):
Rabin and Peres touted
as an end to terrorism, and emphasized that a cessation of violence would be a test of the Oslo process and a condition for its continuation. But when terrorism did not end, the Oslo supporters changed their argument: Oslo
The primary target of the terrorists, the government argued, was the peace process itself; it was not Jews or Israelis per se they sought to kill, but the “peace.” So the proper Israeli response would be to accelerate the process and the pace of concessions and thereby frustrate the terrorists. . . .
And this is what they got, and keep getting.