Oslo In Retrospect Still Right Move

Haaretz reports that in spite of the disappointments, a majority of Israeli's still believe that Rabin was right to pursue the Oslo Accords.

A full decade after Rabin's murder, and with the ongoing violence in Israeli-Palestinian relations, we checked whether, in retrospect, the decision to enter the Oslo process appears sound or mistaken to the Israeli Jewish public. Half the respondents assessed the decision as right, 39 percent as errant, and the rest did not know. A segmentation according to degree of religiosity (self-rating) shows clearly that the greater the religiosity, the greater the negative assessment of Rabin's decision on this issue. Whereas 62 percent of the secular approve of the decision and 26 percent view it as mistaken, over 70 percent of the religious and ultra-Orthodox criticize it and only a small minority approves.