Lisie’s Reviews > The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 > Status Update

Early 2000s, post-Oslo: restrictions on Palestinians and advantages for settlers increased hugely.

Oslo 2 agreement led to heavier restrictions on Palestinian freedom and autonomy. Two examples being checkpoints to enter and exit territories, roads that Palestinians are prohibited from using.

Secretly negotiated agreement between PLO and Israel led to PLO recognizing Israeli State and Israel acknowledging the existence of the Palestinian people. This is seen as a mistake on the PLO’s part because these terms are not balanced and recognizing your colonizer’s legitimacy is not very beneficial.

Going in to negotiations (unclear what year this is but not current) the US had promised Israel they would not agree to any proposal that Israel did not approve of. This promise was not known by all parties. Unclear to me whether this is still formally in place or

US involvement and support for Israel was “cemented”

Intifada in late 80s led to very harsh “iron fist” retaliation from Israel. Videos of Israel breaking protestors limbs led to backlash in public opinion

Israel led a horrifying attack in South Lebanon (in the 80s I think) and committed such atrocious and I describí ate bombing that the US told them they had to stop. And they kinda did. And also there were no consequences for the military decision makers involved, two of them went on to be PM of Israel, one of whom was Bibi himself. Moral of this Chapter: Israel has BEEN warned crime-ing with US backing for decades.

Imagine being a Zionist, that would be so embarrassing