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These refugees have the greatest anger for Arafat's Palestinian Authority. None of those jostling for handouts were among the elite who returned with Arafat from exile in Tunis in 1994. These refugees lived here and struggled against Israel's occupation through the first intifadeh. They expected Arafat to share...
The problem is ultimately a lack of communication. Arafat never made clear to his own people the massive compromises involved in the Oslo Peace process - the fact that the Palestinians were signing away their claim to most of historic Palestine, and that the best the millions of Palestinians descended from...
Husseini's political credentials weren't based only on his family background. He was jailed by the Israelis several times, and that earned him tremendous respect among Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank. He was not a leader who fought the battle from Tunis (headquarters of Yasser Arafat and...
Faisal Husseini's name had been mentioned more than once as a possible successor to Arafat. As a Jerusalemite, a product of a family with a history of struggle, and as a clean person. He had also been a bridge between Palestinians on the West Bank and the exiled PLO...
The generation of Palestinians who waged the first intifada from 1987 into the early 1990s had watched with considerable skepticism as Arafat brought the PLO exile apparatus back from Tunis, installed them as the pashas of the West Bank and Gaza towns handed over to him under Oslo, and promised...