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fa contest were held today for and disappointments — person-
the most famous Palestinian al and national. Absent from her
woman in the world, the un- tone is any hint of bitterness.
Perhaps her greatest disap-
contested winner would be
Hanan Ashrawi, spokeswoman pointment was that after almost
of the Palestinian peace delega- two years of tough negotiations
tion from the 1991 Madrid Con- in Washington, the delegation
ference until the signing of the composed of Palestinians from
Oslo Accords in September 1993. the territories was pre-empted by
At a time when the world was the PLO negotiators in Oslo, who
becoming acquainted with a paid for recognition of the or-
ganization by
whole array of
sacrificing key
new Palestinian
demands. "We
leaders, she
had very clear
stood out — not
tenets of the
least because as
Palestinian po-
a Christian and
litical position,"
a woman, she
she says, ticking
was so unex-
them off as "an
pected an expos-
understanding
itor of the
on the settle-
Palestinian
ments, Jerusa-
cause. A force to
lem, territorial
be reckoned
jurisdiction, hu-
with on public
man rights, the
platforms, she
interconnection
also smashed
of phases, and a
the stereotype of
definition of the
the Palestinian
object of the
woman as sub-
process" as the
missive and eas-
creation of a
ily dismissed —
Hanan Ashrawi:
Palestinian
a feat that often Tiptoes
between raindrops.
state. But the
made her the ob-
ject of sour envy. A leading (male) Oslo agreement, which bypassed
Israeli journalist, for one, used to all these "substantive issues," was
enjoy mocking the articulate and "signed in haste," she says, "and
assertive professor of English lit- was signed for many reasons, not
erature as a Yarbissiner klavteh" just substantive ones." The re-
sult, Ms. Ashrawi believes, was
(a "bitter bitch").
Yet he, and anyone else who's "many gaps and many flaws."
In the subsequent negotiations
interested in a penetrating, in-
sider's view of the Palestinian- in Cairo, the gaps were filled, she
Israeli-American dynamic, would says, "according to Israeli priori-
do well to delve into This Side of ties." The flaws she sees are nu-
Peace (Simon & Schuster), Ms. merous: postponing key issues
Ashrawi's new memoir of her (Jerusalem, the settlements) and
years in the limelight. Not that failing to guarantee the release
she has since retreated into the of prisoners, the return of de-
shadows. On the contrary, upon portees, an end to all forms of col-
the establishment of the Pales- lective punishment, and the
tinian Authority, she renewed disbanding of the undercover
her reputation for elegant pluck units "that are busy Willing Pales-
as 'The Woman Who Said `No' to tinians in cold blood." She says
Arafat," when she turned down these flaws have undercut sup-
his invitation to join the PA in port for the entire peace process.
favor of founding the Palestinian "How can you have a constitu-
Independent Commission for Cit- ency for peace," she asks, "when
peace continues to violate human
izens' Rights.
Now, in her new role as om- rights?"
Still, neither the political ne-
budsman-cum-state comptroller,
she is seated in the commission's gotiations nor Israeli violations
well-appointed east Jerusalem of Palestinian human rights are
office. On the eve of her book tour her chief professional concern
in the United States, Ms. these days. Instead, Ms. Ashrawi
Ashrawi sounds mellowed as she has made a courageous course
discusses issues explored in her change. Guarding the civil and
book and the new ones she faces human rights of Palestinians un-
today. In her rapid, chattily di- der their own autonomous regime
dactic style, she talks of mistakes is the far more sensitive challenge