Victim of peace

The expression victim of peace is a euphemism ascribed by the Israeli right-wing politicians to the Israeli left-wing politicians to refer to victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks in the period between the signing of September 1993 Oslo Peace Accords between Palestinians and Israel and the Al-Aqsa Intifada sparked in September 2000.
At Oslo, the Palestine Liberation Organization committed to curbing violence against Israelis in exchange for phased withdrawal of Israeli forces from parts of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and Palestinian self-government within those areas through the creation of the Palestinian Authority.
However, in the period between September 1993 and September 2000, 256 Israeli civilians and soldiers were killed by Palestinian violence.
The phrase is ascribed by the right-wing politicians
to Shimon Peres, though the direct Peres'es citation was never mentioned. The expression is intended to imply that such deaths are the direct result of the peace process.
Benjamin Netanyahu, elected to the post of Prime minister in 1996 after Peres on the promise to restore safety for Israelis by conditioning every step in the peace process on Israel's assessment of the Palestinian Authority's fulfillment of its obligations in curbing violence, officially rejected this terminology.

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