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...fact, the tunnel opening was a godsend for Arafat. "The Israelis threw him a golden opportunity, and he pounced on it," says Khalil Shikaki, director of the Center of Palestine Research and Studies, based in Nablus. For one thing, embracing the uprising offered Arafat the prospect of improving his standing with his own people, which had fallen unprecedentedly low. Says Shikaki, whose center regularly monitors public opinion: "Optimism about the future had flown out the window." Palestinians blamed mostly the Israelis for their hopelessness, but also Arafat and his P.A. They felt their leadership had been duped into a dead...
Charges of falsified counts, intimidation at the polls and missing ballot boxes have delayed final results of the Palestinian elections, which were intended to set a standard for democracy in the Arab world. P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat, in the race for President of the Palestinian Council, crushed challenger Samiha Khalil with 88% of the valid vote. Preliminary results showed his Fatah organization won about 50 of the 88 parliamentary seats...
...collective weltschmerz in reaction to the massacre at Al-Khalil (Hebron) risks conflating the murderous Dr. Baruch Goldstein with the issue of Palestinian distrust of Israel and the current peace talks...
...real tragedy of Al-Khalil, and one senses the larger reason behind the subsequent riots, lies less in the acts of madman sub specie aeternitatis and more in the existence of a principle that allowed such slaughter in the first place. In maintaining a policy whereby Jewish setters may be heavily armed while Palestinians in the proximate area are expressly prohibited from defending themselves, Israel belies its avowed evenhandedness in the peace process...
...Palestinians will look to Washington with something less that hope. If confidence is to be restored, the Jewish settlers on the West Bank must be held to an equally stringent standard and measures must be taken to assure Palestinian safety. If not, we risk furthering the tragedy of Al-Khalil with the irony of a land that fought for its right to exist--and the ignored the lesson at home. Hassen A. Sayeed...