And recent events have taught us that we must rely more on the enemies' threats than on the friends' promises. I owe you my sincerity. I had faith, not in Yasser Arafat, but in Yitzhak Rabin, whom I knew well and he was a friend. I thought a former warrior of his caliber knows what he was doing. Arafat - I was suspicious of him then, and I belong to the very few people that you may know who refuse to meet Arafat.
Nobody understands why it is so.
All kinds of theories. One theory is simply because he misinterpreted Barak's concessions he took them as a gesture of weakness. And you know what weakness means in those places. Therefore, he wanted more. The other theory is that some intellectual Palestinians persuaded him that, for the sake of the history of Palestine, it is not good to obtain sovereignty around the peace table.