Israel’s Fatal Illusions at Oslo https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2017/07/israels-fatal-illusions-at-oslo/

July 24, 2017 | Neil Rogachevsky
About the author: Neil Rogachevsky teaches at the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University and is the author of Israel’s Declaration of Independence: The History and Political Theory of the Nation’s Founding Moment, published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press.

In his review of the Tony-winning play Oslo, Neil Rogachevsky addressed the illusions about human nature, diplomacy, and Yasir Arafat that led to the much-celebrated 1993 agreement between Israel and the PLO. Now he discusses the deeply flawed process that led Prime Minister Yitzḥak Rabin to give territory and arms to the Jewish state’s bitterest enemy without first consulting Israel’s national-security establishment or experts in Arab and Palestinian affairs. (Interview by Jonathan Silver. Audio, 50 minutes.)

Read more on Tikvah: https://tikvahfund.org/library/podcast-neil-rogachevsky-on-the-story-behind-oslo/