The Oslo process has failed; an attempt to revive it – say, by way of the Beirut Arab peace initiative – will merely bring into the open all of the existing disagreements between the two sides, and will not overcome the Palestinian failure at nation-building. After all the breakdowns in efforts to create a Palestinian state from the top down, only the old-fashioned way – from the bottom up – remains viable.
奥斯陆和平进程已经失败，重新启动这一进程的努力——比如以贝鲁特阿拉伯和平协议的方式——只能导致双方现有矛盾的公开化，也无法跨越巴勒斯坦建国的失败努力而取得成功。在经历了自上而下建国的种种挫折之后，只有老式的方法——自下而上——才是一种可行的选择。