Nicholas Guyatt examines why the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords failed to secure peace between the Israeli government and the PLO. Guyatt proposes that the very conception of the Accords, along with incomplete implementation, led to its demise. As long as the Palestinian enclaves are dependent on Israel for access to the outside world, for jobs and other necessities of life, there can be no economically viable state, and no peaceful settlement of the dispute.