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Yet, Mr. Rabin doubted that Israel would achieve an overall peace with its Arab neighbors in his lifetime. While he ruled out full Pa- lestinian statehood at pre- sent, he left the door open for such an eventuality. "I do not want to deal with it now," he said, "but I am not saying the Palestinians have no rights to aspire to." Almost as a counter- balance to Mr. Rabin's op- timism, two Israeli commen- tators published more downbeat prognoses for Mideast peace as delegates were heading back to Wash- ington for the next round of the regional peace talks. In Ha'aretz, Danny Rubinstein chided Palestin- ians for not advancing the peace process. Instead, he said, they had been beset by personal and political an- tagonisms since they had started preparing for the first phase of peace talks in Madrid last fall. Palestinian delegates and advisors, he wrote, appeared "inept and incapacitated" when addressing such prac- tical issues as transitional procedures and elections in Gaza and the West Bank. Many east Jerusalem residents, he said, "fear get- ting down to long, difficult negotiations with a country that has an organized ex- ecutive authority. In com- parison, Palestinian institu- tions appear pitiful." According to Mr. Rubens- tein, Palestinian leaders in the territories no longer deal with two key areas — Pales- tinians killing suspected collaborators and Arabs building Jewish settlements — since they have not been able to stop them. He also pointed out that efforts by Israeli academics to work with Palestinians at building models for coex- istence had evoked only "cries of despair about the occupation, the settlements, suppression and depriva- tion." This, he said, appeared to be Palestinians' "only way to mobilize public opinion, to get the governments of the world to save them and do the job for them . . . (since) they are incapable of negoti- ating with Israel on their own." In Al-Hamishmar, Avner Regev stated that two State Department officials who had just visited Israel were Rabin doubts Israel will achieve an overall peace with its Arab neighbors in his lifetime. "furious" that Palestinians "do not seriously accept responsibility for the autonomy issue and .. . (that) they continually seek excuses to avoid discussions on substance." Mr. Regev reported that the two U.S. officials were astonished that Palestinian leaders with whom they had met in the territories were not prepared to discuss a single feature of Israel's autonomy offer or to submit their own counter-proposal. The paralysis which has gripped Palestinians stems from the struggle between Palestinians in the ter- ritories and the PLO leaders in Tunis over controlling their movement. This struggle is likely to inten- sify. This shift in power toward the territories started with the intifada in December 1987, when PLO leaders in Tunis were surprised at the spontaneous protests which erupted in the Gaza Strip and quickly spread to the West Bank. The shift was accelerated by the Gulf War in March CI c-\