After 32 Years of Its Political Disasters, It Is Time to Free Ourselves from the ‘Oslo Accord’ and Return to the National Program: DFLP

On the 32nd anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accord on 13 September 1993, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement saying: this is an occasion through which our people recall the damage and political disasters it has inflicted, especially the Oslo Accord’s betrayal of the national program and the Declaration of Independence, in favor of a negotiating project that transformed our people’s cause from a struggle for liberation from occupation and settlement into a mere negotiating issue; whose keys and course were held by the occupying state and its biased American mediator. This included exploiting its terms to complete the zionist settler-colonial project, leading to the explicit proclamation of “israel’s” Talmudic state project, and tireless work by all means to undermine the foundations of the national project, the latest being the declaration by the head of the “israeli” fascist junta that there is no place for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Democratic Front stated that the Oslo Accord burdened the national situation with a wide range of restrictions, the most important of which are:

1. It recognized the right of the zionist project to the land of Palestine when it recognized “‘israel’s’ right to exist,” in exchange for denying our people’s right to their land.

2. It conferred on the state of occupation, settlement, and aggression the label of a “peace partner” in a vague agreement that “israel” immediately revealed to be its historic project to re-engineer the Middle East, through the call of its foreign minister Shimon Peres for a “New Middle East.”

3. It built an administrative self-rule authority under the domination of the occupation and according to its humiliating conditions, including its control over borders, crossings, the population registry, and the land, reducing the Authority’s role to little more than municipal services.

4. It established security agencies for the administrative authority, weighed down with humiliating conditions within the framework of security coordination, turning them into a wall protecting “israel’s” security and pursuing Palestinian national strugglers and resistance fighters.

5. It made resolving the Palestinian cause conditional on the approval of the occupying state and the American mediator, whom the Authority’s leadership itself admitted is biased, dishonest, and not neutral.

6. It bound the PLO with Oslo’s commitments, leading to the annulment of the Palestinian National Charter and ultimately conditioning membership in the Organization on adherence to Oslo’s restrictions and obligations.

7. It paralyzed legislative institutions, especially the Palestinian National Council and the Central Council. The political leadership’s commitments under Oslo obstructed the decisions of these two councils, especially the 23rd session of the PNC and the 31st of the Central Council, giving precedence to the Oslo Accord over Palestinian legitimacy.

8. It opened the Arab gates to recognizing “israel” in various forms, after the Palestinian political leadership recognized “‘israel’s’ right to exist.”

9. It harmed the refugees’ right of return, turning it into a negotiating issue subject to “israel’s” veto.

10. It obstructed the implementation of international legitimacy resolutions that contradict Oslo’s commitments, such as the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice requiring the dismantling of the “israeli” separation wall, which drew unilateral borders at the expense of Palestinian land.

11. Last but not least, it weakened national institutions and paralyzed their capacity to act; the PLO Executive Committee stands as a glaring example of this.

The Democratic Front concluded by renewing its call to abolish the Oslo Accord, its commitments, and its obligations, and to return to the national project, including the implementation of the decisions of the Palestinian National Council (23rd session) and the Central Council (31st session), and to act upon the outcomes of rounds of national dialogue, especially the 2024 Beijing Dialogue, to rebuild the Palestinian political system, agree on a national program for comprehensive confrontation, strengthen the unity of our people in the field, remove obstacles to political and institutional division, and restore the values and standards of national liberation movements, on the path to comprehensive confrontation, resisting the zionist settler-colonial project, and paving the way for freedom, independence, and the refugees’ right of return.

Central Media
13/9/2025