text: Nasser al-Kidwa, Yasser Arafat's nephew, member of Fatah's governing central committee, and for many years the quite able Palestine Liberation Organization representative to the United Nations, was equally vehement: "We lost elections because we failed to deliver on promises to our people. We failed to deliver a Palestinian state. We failed to deliver independence. The overwhelming majority of people would definitely support a reasonable settlement that offers peace, that offers a better life."