PA minister: Oslo Accords armed Palestinians with weapons for terror and the "mighty Intifada"
"The mighty Palestinian Intifada" was made possible thanks to the Oslo Accords – PA Deputy Minister
Al-Alam TV (Iran)
PA Deputy Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Ziad Abu Ein: "The Oslo [Accords] are not the Palestinian people's dream... Nevertheless, there would have been no resistance (i.e., terrorism) on the Palestinian land without Oslo. Oslo was the strong and efficient incubator that cultivated the Palestinian resistance...
Without Oslo, there would have been no resistance. In all the occupied territories, it would have been impossible to move even a handgun from one place to another. Without Oslo, and without being armed through Oslo, and Area A in the PA, and the training, and the camps, and the protection that Oslo provided, and the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners through Oslo – this Palestinian resistance would not have been possible, and we would not have been able to create the mighty Palestinian Intifada."
[Al-Alam TV (Iran), July 4, 2006]
Area A – refers to areas under full PA control according to the Oslo Accords.