U.S. interests to coddle an Israeli government in this situation. They have to make tough choices. We should support them if they make choices that are in our interests. We don't have to support them if they make choices that aren't in our interests. The entrance of every Palestinian community is surrounded today.
Every city is surrounded by troops or tanks or heavy artillery.
The result is that you have immediate places where Palestinian young people can congregate and show their anger at what the Israeli occupation has meant. So I believe that yes, Arafat can take steps. I believe one of the root causes of the violence is that Palestinians were poorer than they were when peace was signed at Oslo. On the other side, Yasser Arafat has said that all peace talks should start where Clinton left off. The Palestinian position historically has been that there are negotiations between governments, not between political parties, and that agreements reached on one level at one point should carry over to the next administration.