Where have all the Palestinian moderates gone?
06 August 2009 11:40 am by Betsy
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It looks like they have gone into the arms of extremists.
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In October 1999, while researching a book on Palestinian politics, I had coffee with then Palestinian Minister of Labor Rafik Natsheh on the patio of the InterContinental Hotel in Amman, Jordan. A member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s Fatah Central Committee, Natsheh was a consummate political insider, but he was also a courageous and outspoken critic of Palestinian President Yasir Arafat’s authoritarian tendencies at a time when deference to Arafat and support for violent resistance constituted the rough center of Palestinian politics. During our meeting, Natsheh struck me as soft-spoken, thoughtful, and politically “moderate.” I subsequently wrote in my book that “it was clear that he [Natsheh] had become, surprisingly, a supporter of Oslo” — the 1993 accord that laid the foundation for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to end the conflict.
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Let’s hope that Abbas can hold back his detractors.
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Easy.
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney killed them, and the ones who still believe were driven under ground.