10 years after the Oslo peace accord  The right agreement, with
the wrong people  September 12, 2003|By Eran Lerman. Eran Lerman
is director of the American Jewish Committee's Israel/Middle
East office in Jerusalem.  JERUSALEM — As pain piles upon pain,
as more lives are lost, as attempts to move ahead are frustrated
again and again in what should properly be called "[Yasser]
Arafat's war" (it was never really an uprising, and it certainly
isn't now), the 10th anniversary of the Oslo Accords between
Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization forcefully
reminds us of the stark contrast between the radiant hopes then
and their wreck and ruin today.  What went wrong with the Oslo
process, which collapsed like an inadequately designed building,
bringing upon Israelis and Palestinians so much suffering and
despair?  My commanding officer in Israeli Military Intelligence
at the time gave me my first look at what was going on. Until
then, analysts like myself were kept out of the loop regarding
the secret Isra