When it comes to the Middle East most observers don't 
    process data, they process denial. When almost 
    immediately after Oslo, Arafat stopped in a Stockholm 
    mosque to repudiate the Accords and was subsequently 
    caught, he denied what he had said. Those who could not 
    see beyond Oslo were eager to accept his denial. When the 
    PLO did not formally change its position on Israel's 
    existence, those who wanted to believe it had done so, 
    simply saying that the formalities didn't make a 
    difference. 

    The Palestinian Authority has yet to comply with even one 
    agreement they have signed since the Oslo Accord. They 
    have violated the Oslo agreement, Oslo II, and the Road 
    Map. Each agreement required the PA to disarm its 
    terrorists and to empower its "security forces" to 
    protect the safety of Israelis as well as Palestinian 
    Arabs.