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The Palestinians Are Totally Responsible for the Failure of the Oslo Accords
(Israel Hayom) Former Israel Security Agency Director Avi Dichter interviewed by Eyal Levi - MK Avi Dichter, 69, was head of the Southern District at the Israel Security Agency when the Oslo Accords were signed in August 1993. "We had great expectations for cooperation from the other side because we knew everyone....They were people that I had sat down with," he said. "When the terrorist attacks began, we supplied them [the PA] with intelligence so they could take care of things. But instead of taking care of things, they were looking for where we got our intelligence from." "The Palestinian Authority was doing absolutely nothing to stop the violence....The Oslo Accords failed and that was 100% the Palestinian Authority's responsibility....It is 28 years since the PA was established and not one single terrorist who carried out a terrorist attack, murdered Israelis, or planned to murder Israelis has been arrested by the PA." Dichter added that the Palestinian suicide bomber who blew himself up at the Park Hotel in Netanya on Passover night in 2002 had originally "planned to hit a mall in Tel Aviv that was closed on the night of the holiday. They wanted to call it off, but the bomber said he had once worked at the Park Hotel in Netanya and suggested checking out whether there were people there. When they saw the queue at the entrance, the terrorist went inside and blew himself up."