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...Wednesday evening, the night of the Israeli elections, and the atmosphere in the Gaza City home of Nabil Shaath is quiet and tense. About a dozen people have gathered to watch the returns. Most are top aides to Yasser Arafat. Shaath, the Palestinian Authority's Minister of International Relations and Development, negotiated the complicated arrangements for the staged Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza. As a member of the authority's six-member senior committee overseeing the crucial "final status" talks, he has just returned from Washington, where he and the Clinton Administration's top Middle East hands...
...well." Arafat has also retained his habit of appointing at least two people for every task, so that no one rises too high and he retains power as the arbiter of conflicts. The results are incoherent policy and internal bickering. The chairman is notorious for playing his Planning Minister, Nabil Shaath, and his Economics Minister, Ahmed Qrei, off each another. "The enmity between them is startling," says an expert at the U.S. State Department...
...year of governing put an irreversible cast on the peace process and on progress toward true Palestinian independence, and that is surely a signal accomplishment. The Palestinians, however, are wondering what kind of society that independence will bring them. "I need to feel improvements in my daily life," says Nabil Abu Muaileq, a civil engineer in Gaza City, "not just see big leaders on TV talking about it." Hisham Saleh, a butcher in the West Bank city of el-Bireh, pauses from his work and says, "Judging from what's happened in Gaza and Jericho, I expect no improvement...
...Islamic militants operating out of the semi-autonomous Gaza Strip. To date, the P.L.O. chairman has treated the Islamists gingerly for fear of igniting a Palestinian civil war. Israeli officials expressed hope that now he would get tough. Palestinian security forces have rounded up 20 alleged Islamic Jihad activists. Nabil Shaath, Arafat's planning minister, swore, ``This time, it will not be a show [detention] for two or three days...
...Palestinians to cross daily. Still, 40,000 others who had worked in Israel before the violence were left jobless -- and furious. As Rabin and Arafat met last week, several hundred laborers protested at the main crossing point into Israel. Asked whether he was demonstrating against Arafat or Rabin, Nabil Fami, a truck driver, replied, "What's the difference? They belong to the same Establishment, which is treating us like pigs...