Has Oslo made West Bank boycott of Israel impossible?

By Alex Shams

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Since the beginning of the Israeli assault on Gaza, a flurry of popular campaigns have emerged across the West Bank calling for the boycott of Israeli products.

Many markets have de-shelved Israeli goods and replaced them with local equivalents, while others have continued to stock them but highlighted Palestinian goods with cheery national flags and more prominent places on the shelf.

Nearly a decade after the launch of the global campaign to boycott Israel, the last two months have finally witnessed a massive outpouring of enthusiasm to stop "supporting your occupier" across the West Bank.

snip* In the West Bank, it is almost impossible to find a single grocery store not stocked primarily with Israeli goods because of the 1993 Oslo Agreements that gave Israel almost total control and unfettered access to the Palestinian economy while severely limiting Palestinian imports and exports otherwise.

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