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...final settlement, which are supposed to begin in little more than a year. That idea is under consideration by Rabin's government. Israel would seek to inflate its borders to include many of the settlements and would probably offer the Palestinians full statehood in the remnants. Sa'eb Erakat, Arafat's minister of local government, says the Palestinians are ready to move straight to a final resolution. The P.L.O. will insist on nothing less than the Gaza Strip and the entire West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it hopes to make the Palestinian capital...
...story illustrates two phenomena: how Palestinians automatically blame Israel for trouble of any kind, and how they are beginning to unlearn the reflex that has become so deeply ingrained. Says Sa'eb Erakat, a leading P.L.O. figure in Jericho: "It is a huge transition that we must make in our mentality...
...large part of that stubbornness arises from Rabin's confidence that ultimately the U.S. will -- as it always has -- veto any U.N. punishment of Israel. The Palestinians also expect that. Says Sa'eb Erakat, a Palestinian delegate to the Middle East peace talks: "Anybody who thinks that Clinton will start his presidency off by imposing sanctions on Israel is crazy...
...conditioned to "eliminate entirely any possibility of these funds being subsidies to occupation and settlements," the Palestinians would continue to negotiate. They are unlikely to be satisfied by the proposal that Baker reportedly made. "It is permission to put 10,000 obstacles on the road to peace," says Saeb Erakat, a member of the Palestinian negotiating team...
Sharon's announcement heightened Palestinian fears that the immigrants will be settled at their expense. "This will destroy all prospects for negotiations," says Saeb Erakat, professor of political science at An-Najah University in Nablus. To most Palestinians, each incoming planeload lessens the chances of preserving their hold on the West Bank and Gaza. It is a matter of almost equal import to the arriving Jews. As they settle with difficulty into their new lives, they must also face up to an ideological choice that could determine whether they and their neighbors can ever live in peace...