My uncle who is very much a leftist and supports oslo met Jibril Rajoub at a European soccer game, they got talking in a hotel bar and although my uncle had no idea who he was apart from the fact he was important in the Palestine sports scene there something about the man my leftist uncle did not like. The PA also claim they are broke but Rajoub's business cards are made of metal and made to look like they are gold and I doubt they were cheap.

oslo started the process whereby a group of arabs was given certain international recognitions for no obligations in return. the oslo process has allowed this group of arabs to pretend that they are a state, one that is recognised by large numbers of countries. today, this group of arabs has insinuated itself into international organisations as if they constituted a de jure state. the oslo precedent is hugely dangerous. it allows a group of self described people to force their way among sovereign states without any obligations and without any of the legal signs of a sovereign state. the us, the eu, and of course, the islamic states have been complicit in this charade.