(Boston Globe) Jeff Jacoby - The White House ceremony on Sept. 13, 1993, did not inaugurate an era of peace. It inaugurated instead the worst decade of terrorism in Israel's history. 1,126 men, women, children, and babies would lose their lives to Palestinian terror in the 10 years following Arafat's renunciation of violence. Arafat and the PLO leadership had not abandoned terrorism. Empowering them with land and money and authority had inflamed, not quenched, their thirst to "liberate" Israel from the Jews. The fundamental premise of Oslo - that the Palestinians were ready to live in peace with Israel - was always a lie, merely a tactic in the "liberation" of Palestine. Israelis crave peace, and they thought they craved it at any price. But peace at any price leads to war.
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