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...Palestinian Authority was created by the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1994 as an interim administrative body that would serve as the foundation for a Palestinian state. Oslo envisaged a final-status agreement between the two sides by 1999, at which point the PA would be replaced by a government created on the basis of the constitution of the new Palestinian state. That's why the mandate of the current PA legislature and Chairman Arafat himself, democratically elected in early 1996, expired in 1999. But the absence of a final status agreement has, until...
...Arafat's reasons for supporting the Tanzim are political. The aging PLO leader and his inner circle are mostly products of decades of Palestinian exile, men brought Arafat back with him from Tunisia to staff the top tier of the PA. But in the course of their 1987-1991 intifada, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza had evolved a strong local leadership, and many of these younger men were resentful at being overlooked in favor of the Tunisians. The grassroots Fatah leaders are generally more militant than those around Arafat, fiercely critical of the corruption and authoritarianism that...
...domain. The increasingly open split between West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub and his Gaza counterpart Mohammed Dahlan is threatening to spark a wave of internecine violence, while the grassroots Fatah leadership is being emboldened by Arafat's talk of reform to press ahead in its challenge to the PLO old guard that dominates the PA leadership...
Arafat is a political and rhetorical genius, which has enabled him to manipulate Israel and the greater international community for far too long. Since Arafat’s glorious return from exile in Tunis and Israel’s agreement to recognize the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) as the sole representative of the Palestinian people, Israel’s security has not increased but decreased. While seeking peace, Israel has allowed Arafat and the Palestinian terrorist organizations to set up a base of operations in the West Bank and Gaza, allowing them freedom to plan and execute terrorist missions with...
...Hamas emerged as a direct rival to the secular in PLO in the West Bank and Gaza in 1987. Whereas the Israeli military authorities had banned PLO organizations from operating openly there, it consciously allowed Hamas - whose activities did not at that time include armed actions - to flourish as an alternative to Arafat, who remained Israel's primary enemy at the time. But Hamas's active role in the first intifada led to Israel banning the organization in 1989 and imprisoning its founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin...