Word: ghassan
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Many in the P.L.O. acknowledge their rivals' ascendancy. "The balance is shifting rapidly to Hamas and away from us," says Ghassan Khatib, a member of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks. Some Israelis agree. "The fundamentalists," says Eli Rekhess, a political scientist at Tel Aviv University, "look to be Israel's biggest challenge today, not the P.L.O...
...plenty of noise. The so-called rejectionists are better organized and more determined than ever to upset the talks. Their resurgence has put the Palestinian negotiators on edge and complicated their already tricky task of coming to acceptable terms with the Israelis. "We are a bit disturbed," allows delegate Ghassan Khatib, "to find the people falling into the hands of the opposition...
...Golan back. On the issue of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, there is a wide gap between the Israeli proposal for an "administrative" council and Palestinian demands for a "legislative" body, an embryo parliament for a Palestinian state. But gone are the days when, as Palestinian delegate Ghassan Khatib puts it, "proposals were prepared for confrontation, not agreement." Propaganda ideas are yielding to suggestions that might be negotiable. Someday. Maybe...
...troubling fact is that many of them lack faith in the outcome of the process. "If you ask the average Palestinian," says Ghassan al- Khatib, an economist and another potential delegate, "he will say this is nonsense; Israelis don't want peace, and the Americans are not serious about pressing them." Those who are not merely dismissive of the conference tend to be vehemently opposed to participation in it, and they include the followers of the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas as well as the so-called rejectionist factions of the P.L.O...