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about the waning en-
thusiasm for the peace
accord on the Israeli
side. Less attention has been
paid to the parallel phenome-
non among the Palestinians, for
whom the "September high"
was even higher — and the fall
off has been even steeper.
If Israelis hoped that recog-
nition of the PLO would lead to
an ebbing of the violence that
has clouded their lives since the
start of the intifada, Palestini-
ans had equally high expecta-
tions that recognition would
bring prompt action on three
cardinal issues: the release of
the more than 12,000 Palestin-
ian prisoners held in Israeli jails
(many of them breadwinners

whose absence has brought se-
vere hardship to Palestinian
families); the return of the hun-
dreds of activists deported from
the territories since 1967, and
a swift upswing in the de-
pressed Palestinian economy.
Virtually none of these cov-
eted changes has come to pass.
A group of prisoners was re-
leased at the start of the Taba
talks, but all were either ailing,
minors, or women — and thus
of little help to needy families.
Neither have the deportees
been allowed back into the
country, and economic relief re-
mains in the realm of fantasy.
To the man in street, the
much-touted donors conference
in Washington and the talks of
the Israeli-Palestinian Eco-

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Palestinian prisoners are marched through a prison camp In Gaza.

nomic Committee in Paris have
yielded nothing more than
headlines.
Thousands of projects are
waiting to be funded, but the
wheels in Tunis turn slowly,
and there has been a delay in
connecting with the World
13a,ik, which will be dispensing
most of the donor funds ear-
marked for the territories.
When a liaison committee fi-
nally was appointed, the ma-
jority of its members turned out
to be PLO apparatchiks, rather
than professional economists —
prompting some of the profes-
sionals to express their pique
by refusing to serve.
Appointments to other com-
mittees have been made at the
last minute, leaving no time to
prepare position papers. In
general, planning does not
appear to be the PLO's
forte.
Nor is authority delegat-
ed readily, with the result
being a growing frustration
among "middle manage-
ment" that has begun to
leak out in even casual en-
counters with outsiders.
The delays and disorga-
nization, far from going un-
noticed, have even shifted
some attention from griev-
ances against Israel to
gripes about the PLO.
Ghassan al-Khatib of the
Palestine People's Party
(one of the Fatah's allies in
the organization), went so
far as to air his criticisms
on Israeli television. Other
Palestinians, from Haidar
Abdel-Shafi down, have
publicly expressed concern
not only about the flawed
decision-making process
and bureaucratic disarray,
but about the undemocrat-
ic character of the Pales-
tinian regime.
Elections, which will ei-
ther sort out or aggravate
this situation, are not
scheduled until next sum-
mer. In the meanwhile,
though no one advocates
anarchy and everyone sup-
ports "Palestinian solidar-
ity," there's concern in the
air about whether Yassir
Arafat's Fatah faction will
"make room" for its critics
and rivals — or actively
suppress them.
The problem is corn-

