Goals Of "Peace"
Although Rabin was the tool to sell Oslo to the Israeli public, the ultimate
goals of this peace process were taken over by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
and his deputy, Yossi Beilin. Ron Pundak noted, "Beilin doesn't believe in
borders. He thinks they are the root cause of conflict and doesn't care if
Israel loses hers." Shimon Peres advanced such thinking with a program he
called The New Middle East. In his vision, Israel would give up its present
borders, including its most vital strategic positions, to join in an
economic union with its Arab neighbors. To secure the pullback of Israel's
present borders to those of 1948, some 200,000 Jews would have to be removed
from their homes. The Israeli government, through Beilin, obligated itself
to carrying out a plan of delegitimization, in fact demonization, of the
Jewish residents of the Administered Territories and later the Golan
Heights, as a prelude to their forced removal.
The secret clauses of Oslo were leaked by an alarmed employee of a
government ministry, first to Jerusalem Post reporter Steve Rodan. After a
three month fact checking period, the Post printed the less frightening
details on its front page and suffered expensive government retaliation
immediately after.
Through an intermediary, I was given the details of what the Post backed off
printing, which I published in my newsletter Inside Israel. Beilin's plan
called for a covert war against the "settlers" or Jewish residents of
disputed territories, which included incriminating the innocent in timely
outrages and murdering public figures to instill terror and uncertainty.
This plan ultimately led to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin.
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