No, Bill. It wasn't Arafat who fouled the peace plan. Israel was supposed to stop building settlements and to begin removing them. Not only did they not do any of that, they increased the rate at which they increased settlement expansion. There was a two year period during which the Palestinians had some hope that the Oslo process would bring them independence when, according to Yitzhak Rabin, no Israelis were killed by PLO terrorism.

But it eventually became very clear to the Palestinians that Israel had no intention of ending the occupation or even to stop building settlements. Then Isreali soldiers fired with live amunition against Palestinians demonstrators armed only with rocks, killing several of them and wounding many others. And that was the start of the second Intifada.

Here's what Shimon Peres had to say about it on September 24, 2001:

"We have a skeleton, we didn't complete the house. The Oslo agreement has had a rather short occasion to implement itself, and that was between 1993 and 1996. The Oslo agreement was stopped in 1996 when the government in Israel was changed and Mr. Netanyahu became the Prime Minister."

But as the material I posted above shows, from the perspective of the Israelis, even Oslo wasn't ever really intended to result in an independent state for the Palestinians.

As far as the myth of Arafat "walking away from Barak's generous offer" is concerned, the offer was in no way generous, and it was Barak who ended the talks at Taba.

And contrary to what you, and it would appear, many other people seem to think, I have no need to dwell on who is responsible for what. What I am saying is that Israel should stop using a fictional historic narrative in order to justify the further subjugation, and/or expulsion of the Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.