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uation is extremely bleak. ... Anger
and frustration are taking over."
If the Palestinians were not so dis-
Tel Aviv
enchanted, Ashrawi suggested, last
or the Jews, the creation of week's commemoration of the 1948
the State of Israel 50 years
at Nagba (Arabic for "catastrophe")
ago was a prophecy ful-
would not have turned so violent.
filled. For the Arabs, who
They would still have paraded to c±\
denounced partition and opted for
demonstrate a commitment to their
war, it was a catastrophe that drove
own history, aspirations and rights.
hundreds of thousands of them from
But effigies of Netanyahu might not
their lands and into poverty, exile
have been burned and stabbed. Jew-
and terrorism.
ish settlement fences
Five years ago, the
and army check-
Oslo agreement held
points might not
out a prospect, if not
have been stormed.
of righting wrongs on
"If the peace
both sides, at least of
process had
making it possible for
worked," Ashrawi
the two peoples to
said, "it would have
live together and put
created alternative
the shared past
realities. If there
behind them. The
were a will for
blood that stained
peace, it would have
the 50th anniversary
created enhanced
in Gaza and the West
confidence in each
Bank last week, the
other."
stones, the petrol
Whether it incit-
bombs, the live and
ed the violence, as
rubber bullets, the
Israel charges, the
dead and wounded,
Palestinian Authori-
demonstrated how
ty inspired the street
far the Oslo dream
theater of al Naqba
has degenerated into
to challenge Israel's
a nightmare.
Jubilee rejoicing.
Yassir Arafat:
The Palestinian
There is another
A tightrope?
leaders who gambled
side, the Palestiniancy
on peace are reduced
were saying, there is'
to despair. Israeli Prime Minister
unfinished business — and it's dead-
Binyamin Netanyahu was in the
ly.
United States negotiating percentage
Only one year ago, under the same
points of a phased withdrawal from
Netanyahu government, Israelis
the West Bank, but for Yassir Arafat's
seemed ready to come to terms with
loyalists the ground was burning
the Palestinian page of the ledger. An
under their feet. They are losing con-
anniversary Israel Television series
trol of the Palestinian street. And
confronted viewers with the under-
with no viable alternative to offer,
side of their own history and Israel
they are stuck with a peace process
had turned about 80 percent of the
that is not delivering.
hotly contested Hebron over to the
Predictably, their bitterness was
Palestinian Authority.
sharp. "[Netanyahu] is resuscitating
Ashrawi, one of the Palestinians'
the language of hostility, extremism
most effective spokespersons to
and ideology," declared Hanan
Western media, was left only saying
Ashrawi, a minister in the Palestinian
this: "I remain committed to peace
Authority. "In the short term, the sit-
as an objective." E

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