A crisis of legitimacy

Twenty years after Oslo, Palestine is still seeking a ‘real’ Government.

Over the course of a few weeks in late August and September 2012, Palestinians staged some of the largest demonstrations seen in the West Bank for many years. Unlike previous years, however, the focus of their anger was not Israel’s occupation, but rather the Palestinian Authority (PA), which was created as a consequence of the Oslo Accords.

Protesting against the rising cost of living and unpaid PA salaries, the list of demands made by demonstrators quickly cascaded from the resignation of (former) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, to calling for President Mahmoud Abbas to resign, to demanding that the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) rescind the Paris Protocol signed with Israel in 1994, and finally for it to walk away from the Oslo Accords altogether.

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