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Arafat's last practical experience as the ruler of anything was in the refugee camps of Lebanon before the 1982 Israeli invasion. Some of his opponents argue that Arafat's prolonged exile in Tunis has left him detached from the day to day problems faced by Palestinians still living in...
But if the first major challenge to Arafat's authority will come from the Hamas strongholds around Nablus and Hebron, the second will come from East Jerusalem. The one thing Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin may have in common is their age. And when observers consider the next generation of...
-- Letter signed in Tunis by Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat
In the next few meetings, positions converged. "We knew the official position of our government," Pundak says. "We assessed what our government could change in its views; we knew the Palestinian side very well through our meetings in the territories with the local leadership; we learned about the ideas of...
By May both sides had produced a draft that Pundak describes as "very interesting stuff." Interesting enough to entice two Israeli Foreign Ministry officials, Uri Savir and Yoel Singer, to travel to Norway soon thereafter for a firsthand look and to join the negotiations. At this point, Arafat in Tunis...