Word: nusseibeh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that gives weight to the rejectionists' argument that the peace Arafat made with Israel is a bad deal that should be overturned. If this becomes the majority opinion, suggests Sari Nusseibeh, a prominent P.L.O. figure in Jerusalem, "the members of the Authority might just get so depressed that they'll decide it's not worth it, that it makes more sense to say to the people, 'All right, go back to the Israeli occupation.' " An aide to Arafat relates that in a recent conversation, the P.L.O. leader himself talked of the possibility of dismantling his self-rule administration and quitting...
Ordinary Palestinians seem neither hostile nor jubilant yet, perhaps because they are not sure what has happened. "People are in a state of suspension," says P.L.O. activist Sari Nusseibeh. "They are waiting to hear the facts and how this will affect their lives." Nusseibeh is one of the few who "enthusiastically support" the deal. The road to a Palestinian state must begin somewhere, he argues. "We have the choice of continuing to dream of a palace in the sky or building a hut on the ground. From the hut, a palace can be built...
...Palestinians is that the hut is all there is. "We believe Gaza first means Gaza last," insists Malki. Says Osman Hallak, editor of the newspaper An-Nahar in Jerusalem: "I would accept a deal as long as I knew that in the end I would have an independent entity." Nusseibeh believes that this will happen, that the Israeli government is moving toward accepting some kind of Palestinian state. A key Israeli official said last week, "Actually, the road to statehood is open to the Palestinians. It is long, but it is open." A Labor Party official seemed to confirm that...
...that, as Palestinians see it, means a settlement that would bring about Israeli withdrawal from the territories. Yet the very search for a peaceful solution risks more bloodshed: hard-line Palestinians are convinced that negotiating with the Israelis is tantamount to selling out the cause. Thus, Palestinian intellectual Sari Nusseibeh suggests, as the peace process resumes and perhaps accelerates, that Palestinian militants may continue to try to sabotage it by force of arms. In that case, the sayarot will be here to stay...