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Missed Deadline Adds
To Gaza's Malaise
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aza after the missed
April 13 deadline for the
completion of the
planned Israeli with-
drawal looks no better today
than it did just after the missed
Dec. 13 deadline for the begin-
ning of the pullout.
Some things have changed.
The winter mud of the city's un-
paved roads has turned to dust.
And the seemingly endless ne-
gotiations have brought the two
sides closer to signing the Gaza-
Jericho Agreement.
In addition, even without
concluding the agreement, the
Israeli army and Civil Admin-
istration have actually begun
their withdrawal from Gaza
("redeployment," Palestinian
spokesmen are quick to correct).
Yet so deep are Palestinian
G
As one of the organizers of
the first Unified National Com-
mand, which turned the spon-
taneous violence of the intifada
into an organized national up-
rising, the soft-spoken Mr. Za-
kout is, for Palestinians, one of
their unsung heroes. But today,
sitting in the bustling PLO of-
fices in Gaza, he seems with-
drawn, perhaps still dazed by
the city he found after a six-year
absence.
"The destruction is not just
physical but above all psycho-
logical," he reflected, as the lat-
est closure of the territories in
the wake of the Afula car bomb-
ing has left tens of thousands of
Gazans out-of-work and again
facing the specter of hunger.
"There's nothing left of the spir-
it of self-help and solidarity, of
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Residents shop in the occupied Gaza ship.
suspicions of Israel's intentions
that rather than inspire scenes
of joy at the sight of whole bases
being dismantled, the rede-
ployment has been met by ap-
athy in the Palestinian street.
For as the start of self-rule
draws near, the Gazans have
far more to worry about than
how to celebrate the "end of the
occupation."
"I found Gaza completely de-
stroyed," reported Jamal Zak-
out of the Palestinian
Democratic Union (the faction
of the Democratic Front that
has remained within the PLO),
who returned last week follow-
ing his deportation in August
1988.
`public sharing,' that marked
the start of the intifada. Instead,
there's a great division in our
society and a rush for power,"
he lamented.
"Arms are flooding into Gaza,
and all people talk about is the
price of guns. There's no trust
between the competing factions
and no trust between the peo-
ple and their leadership. The
peace process has lost its cred-
ibility, and everyone is
preoccupied with the here and
now. No one talks about the fu-
ture."
The future indeed remains
clouded, and frightening,
throughout Gaza — not least
within the PLO offices them-