Yes. Oslo was flawed. There was no endgame from the standpoint of the Israelis. The Palestinians knew what they wanted, and they put their expectations right out there on the table. But Israel has never given any indication of what its endgame is. They have never acknoweleged the Palestinian's right to exist. Not only that, but the standard line that Israel has been using about the Palestinians is that not only do they not have a right to exist, but that they never even existed in the first place.

It may be that they refrained from murder for two whole years. (What prize do you suggest we give them?)

Israel could have stopped building settlements. And they should have. That would have been a sign to the Palestinians that Israel had negotiated in good faith.

What they did not do was refrain from calling for the elimination of Israel, while at the same time claiming hypocritically that they "recognized Israel's right to exist."

Why should ammend their covenant in that way if Israel refuses to recognise the Palestinian's right to exist? Israel won't even say that the Palestinians have a right to keep the land that they currently have.

Talk about hypocrisy.