The Oslo Process has Collapsed..

The Oslo Process has Collapsed.

Barry Shaw | Sept 10, 2025

If the barbaric 2023 Palestinian murderous invasion of Israel taught us anything it taught us how wrong we were in assessing and assigning good intentions on malevolent Palestinians.

The reason that Israel was caught sleeping and with its pants down on the dawn of that tragic day, the most tragic day in Jewish history since the Holocaust, was that Ronen Bar, the Shin Bet intelligence agency, held a concept now known in Israel as “The Conceptzia.”

What happened in Israel on the dawn of 7^th October was not just a mistake in analyzing intelligence data but an accumulative regional view that led Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet, to wrongly interpret a gathering storm exactly backward.

He assumed that Hamas was nervous about an impending Israeli attack based on nothing. He had been nervous for years about Israeli military initiatives in Gaza to tamp down n potential terror targets and cause a wider war. This was the concept that prevented Bar from raising the alert in high military intelligence circles. This is why the female soldiers who raised the alert based on what they were watching in real time were left unprotected to their slaughter and kidnapping by the invading Palestinian terror armies.

It seemed that Bar was so intent in signaling to Hamas that we had no ill intent toward them that led him to expose our jugular vein to their invading savages, as explained by Gadi Taub at the JNS Summit in Jerusalem.

According to Taub, long before the war Bar had convinced himself that Hamas wanted a prolonged Hudna (ceasefire) and this was why he was one of the main advocates stepping up economic concessions to Hamas because he was sure it would encourage a trend of moderation in Hamas circles.

The flip side of this view was that Bar was always hyper suspicious about the Israeli political right, which was why, under his leadership, the Jewish division of the Shin Bet was so aggressive toward the settlers and so indifferent to their human rights,

His shocking telephone conversations with Avishai Muallem, chief of the Judea and Samaria police was recently exposed. In these calls the Shin Bet requested months of political detention for settlers without a shred of evidence against them. When Moallem protested, he was told by Shin Bet that he should create the appearance of a real investigation. This, again, repeated by Gadi Taub at the JNS Summit.

Given Bar’s instinctive sense that Israel, not Hamas, was the source of trouble, it is not farfetched to speculate that this is why he did not wake up the Prime Minister until 6.29 am on the night of the disaster.

Taub speculates that Barr reckoned that waking up a hawkish PM would set the alarm bells ringing enforcing what he thought would drag us all into an “unintended escalation” if not a regional war.

We know this is the Shin Bet way of thinking because there is a term for it. Miscalculation. This was explained in the Prime Minister’s affidavit.

Miscalculations have been interpreted by them as previous Israeli reactions to Palestinian, including Hamas’s, violent initiation of attacks against Israel.

According to minds like Bar, Israel’s intentions are the problem, and Hamas is the solution or inevitable response. The Israeli right is the enemy of peace and Hamas is our future partner. Barr, according to Taub, was standing on the night between 6-7 October with his back toward Gaza and his face to Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria.

This is the Oslo frame of mind. How can you still believe in Oslo after such a pronged and abysmal failure? You have to doggedly continue to believe in a Palestinian partner and assume that the collapse of the process is always Israel’s fault. Ergo, the Right is the problem.

This is Barr’s basic worldview, and it informed his behavior. He refused to obey the elected right-wing Cabinet to dismiss him because he still saw his job as protecting Israel from the Israel Right, not from Hamas.

You can hear this refrain in all the anti-Israel Israeli TV channels in which this underlying conception are anchored in. We can call it a woke conception for sure, or the Post Colonial Studies conception, or the Edward Said view, or identity politics, or multi-culturalism.

All these leads directly to the conflict and the view that Israel, being Western, is the guilty party and the Palestinians are naturally projected as the colored folk, the victim. No matter how many Jews they kill, it’s always the Jews fault that caused this or that Arab to come after him or her with a knife, a gun, or an explosive belt.

If you zoom in you can frame the conflict and the war embedded in the larger controversy now convulsing all democracies. The battle over the future credo of the West,

This is why the battle of framing began when the war began. All its components were already in place. The woke did not have to wait for a Palestinian death count to know which party they would support. Who was guilty and who was the victim.

Trained in Post Colonial Studies this was pre-destined for them. The Palestinians can never do wrong. Hostiiity to Zionism is not just instinctive to the woke, It is the litmus test by which side of history you stand on.

Palestinians, according to this view are native people of color and the Jews are European whites who colonized Palestinian land. With the dispossession of native Americans or native Australians relegated to the past, slavery extinct in the West – but very much alive and killing in Islamic countries, but don’t tell this to the woke elite, – and European rule in North Africa and Asia long gone, only Zionism perpetuates this wonky woke Western view. So they project it as being a rearguard action of Western colonialism, the last vestige of a retrograde evil, demanding its destruction, making it a unique ritual of the rebellious Left-Islamic alliance.

The framing of the Gaza war is just a new chapter in the framing of the Left’s futile battle against Zionism. It is their last battle for relevance on the indoctrinated campuses of the West.

This is why Netanyahu’s framing of the war is diametrically opposed to the woke West’s explanation of what is going on.

Far from being a relic of the old bad colonial past, Israel is paving the way for a better future. It is a trail blazer. It is the frontline of Western civilization in the war against barbarism. Bibi said in front of the US Congress, “If you remember one thing from this speech it is this. Our enemies are your enemies. Our fight is your fight. And our victory will be your victory.”

In the UN, Netanyahu spoke of the savage murderers who are out to destroy our common civilization. This is the polar opposite of multi-cultural speech where you respect the other side, even if that other side is a savage entity tied to a medieval concept of bloodshed and conquest.

Bibi referred to the woke protesters on Capitol Hill including those carrying “Gays for Gaza” placards. “I have a message for these protesters. When the tyrants of Tehran hanged gay from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair are praising and promoting and funding you have officially become the trans useful idiots. “

Wokism is an auto immune disease. It attacks our ability to defend our values. Its moral relativism first inserts equality of all cultures then lets anti-Western values into the gates of boundless tolerance and finally use anti-racist morally by using Western guilt to forbid any criticism of racist misogynist anti-Semitic anti-Western ideologies so long as those come from those who are designated and sanctified as victims.

Taub put it this way. “The damage it causes through its inversions are everywhere the same. It is what led British authority to legitimize Pakistani grooming gangs in the name of community relations. It is what led students to support the genocide of Jews in the name of anti-racism. It is what led courts to send rapists into women’s jails, and what authorized the sterilization of children in the name of gender affirmation. It also led the ICJ to argue that Israel not Hamas must be tried for genocide. It has reached the height of absurdity when Judith Butler a feminist author described the barbarian raping mutilation of Jewish women as ‘armed resistance.’”

It is not our mission to define queer theory with Judith Butler, or to point out the inconsistencies of Edward Said, but calling out the relativism that goes straight to the heart of a global problem is vitally important.

This is not a clash of civilizations. It is a clash of barbarism with civilization. It is a clash between those who glorify death and those who sanctify life.

Not all values are equal. We will not be able to defend ourselves if we assume Obama-style sanitized language. Instead of radical extremism we must Hamas, the grooming gangs in Britain, the murderers at the Charlie Abdo in Paris, or the killer of director Van Gogh in Amsterdam, by the name that describes them, what they really are. Barbarian jihadis. Enemies of civilization.

Israel is now fighting not only against a heavily armed terror armies but also a cultural war against a constellation of lob-sided misguided think tanks, human rights organizations, NGOs, a biased woke media, social media platforms, corrupt universities, and faux peace protesters who are trying to tie our hands.

We need to win the military war despite their best efforts to stop us because it is crucial to demonstrate that liberal democracy indeed does not have to commit suicide.

The opposition to Israel have shifted their war against us from elected bodies to non-elected institutions such as biased political bodies posing as human rights NGOs, to employ biased legal means and use the international courts that take up the briefs of these politically biased NGOs many of whom operate under the umbrella of the UN which gifts them even more undeserving gravitas.

Israel placed all its chips on the Oslo Accord and increasingly finds itself at the mercy of a Palestinian movement that took the territory we capitulated to them and refused to show us any mercy or concession.

Forget Hamas (if only we could), when was the last time you heard Mahmoud Abbas publicly say his Fatah-PLO Authority recognizes Israel’s right to exist behind safe borders and that he would cease paying monthly stipends to Palestinians who murder Jews.

When that day comes rainbows will appear in the sky and peace will descend from the heavens.

Until then, we don’t believe a word that they say, and we are not ready to grant then a damn thing.