by Europe and managed conceptually by the World Bank. There the US and its Western allies reinserted the logic of the ‘Quality of Life’ and ‘happy Palestinian’ plans., that became the blueprint for donor aid from October 1993 onwards. As the World Bank stated in: ‘Political settlement and peace is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for economic development in the OT [OPT]’.
The dimensions of Palestinian self-rule radically realigned in this period, too. Before Oslo, international consensus favoured a complete Israeli withdrawal from all the OPT and supported Palestinian aspirations to create their independent state. Now international sponsors of the peace process largely exclude East Jerusalem from the calculus of peace-building, and Palestinian refugees were mostly isolated and began to be left out of peacebuilding by the donors. Further, Israeli settlement building and annexations of Palestinian land in the OPT were never seriously challenged.
All the while, Oslo was lauded as an example for what peace-making could achieve, and Israel was able to re-establish itsWhat is old is new again . Much has been written about what happened next.