These are genuine feelings, genuine frustrations that are being expressed day in, day out, particularly over the past five days. And one cannot honestly simplify things by saying, all we have to do is blame a call to arms or to Jihad by either Arafat or some kind of a pulpit minister here or there, or even by Sharon. There are some genuine frustrations on the part of the Palestinians. The peace process has not brought home the peace dividend that the Palestinians had been promised ten years ago. I don't think he has total control.
Nobody has total control.
Certainly Yasser Arafat is the Palestinian leader and he is in charge of the Palestinian authority and has a constituency of some 30 or 35 percent of the Palestinians who support him. But I doubt that these types of uprisings can be either started or stopped automatically by Yasser Arafat or anybody else. Just for a second, because Marwan Bargouti heads Mr. Arafat's own Fatah Party. There's just no excuse for violence. But I agree with Khalil that there's genuine passions, and that's why we have to go back to the table and work towards a peace deal, because I fear if we don't, if we push these issues under the rug, the violence will get worse.