A decade after the historic handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, the vision behind the Oslo Accords seems obstructed to some, blurred to others and self-destructive to the rest. What went wrong?

YEHOSHUA PORATH: Why Oslo failed
Today it is already clear that the Oslo agreements have failed. I will demonstrate that the agreements were doomed to failure from the outset, although the Palestinians' behavior over the past 10 years contributed significantly to the magnitude of that failure.

JOEL FISHMAN: A 'people's war'
The purpose of the Declaration of Principles which Israel and the PLO signed on the White House lawn a decade ago, was to initiate a peace process. Since this hopeful event, Israel has suffered more than 1,080 casualties: 256 from September 1993 to September 2000, and 824 from September 2000 to June 2003 (and more since then).

LIMOR LIVNAT: Hope vs. reason
Time moves quickly in the Middle East. A decade is more than enough time to properly assess Israel's diplomatic strategy. And when it comes to Oslo, many, if not most Israelis, were never in need of historical perspective to detect the egregious errors built into the process.

YULI TAMIR: Implementation failure
Looking back at Oslo, what we learn is that it was a mixed blessing. Its biggest achievement was the readiness of both sides to acknowledge the fact that any future solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would involve the division of the Land of Israel between two peoples and the establishment of a Palestinian state.

ZEV CHAFETS: I was wrong
In 1991, I wrote an article in the Jerusalem Report calling for a Palestinian state. This was before the Oslo Accords were struck, but I was influenced by the same optimistic spirit that animated its negotiators. I thought the Palestinians were ready for a genuine peace in return for an independent state in most of the West Bank and Gaza.

YOSSI BEILIN : No alternative
One of the most interesting features of the criticism of the Oslo process is the absence of an alternative that has any chance of being accepted by the two sides. Except for the ideas of "transfer," "Jordan is Palestine" or suggesting to the Palestinians to make do with a small autonomy forever, no one has suggested any real alternative to an Israeli-Palestinian settlement that would ensure Israel a stable Jewish majority and put an end to the violence between the sides.

EYAL MEGGED: Right vs. righteous
If I had to give an answer to the question of what the light at the end of the Oslo tunnel is, it would be the awakening from an illusion: the realization that the axiom we in Israel have held since childhood - that Israel wants peace and the Arabs don't - is as true now as it was then.

URI AVNERY: Seeds of peace
David Lloyd-George said that one cannot cross an abyss in two jumps. He spoke about his efforts to make peace with the Irish, but the same could be said about the basic fault of the Oslo agreement. Yitzhak Rabin tried to cross the abyss in many small jumps. That was his mistake.

PAUL JOHNSON: Settlements for suicides
I never believed in the Oslo Accords and it is now clear they have been a failure, merely exacerbating the conflict between Israelis and Arabs. Negotiations are pointless unless both sides want a solution. The Israelis do. The Arabs do not.

MACKUBIN THOMAS OWENS: Stop digging
The Oslo Accords put me in mind of what my good friend, Colin Gray, the British strategic theorist, has called "the dilemma of arms control": Arms control agreements are most likely to succeed when they are least necessary - when disagreements between the two parties have been minimized.

RUTH WISSE: The road to hell
I would much rather praise Israel's noble achievements than talk about its mistakes, but, alas, no one can shield the Israelis from the consequences of the Oslo Accords.

KHALED ABU TOAMEH: Yes, Prime Minister
On Wednesday afternoon, after three days of keeping the PA in suspense, Ahmed Qurei (Abu Ala), the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, announced that he has accepted the offer to become the second prime minister in the Palestinian Authority.