Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawiis a Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar. She was a protégée and later colleague and close friend of Edward Said. Ashrawi was an important leader during the First Intifada, served as the official spokesperson for the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East peace process, and has been elected numerous times to the Palestinian Legislative Council. Ashrawi is a member of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's Third Way party. She is the first woman elected to the Palestinian...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 October 1946
sharon
Sharon may be brutal, but so is Barak,
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I feel that Sharon is certainly a negative addition. He will sour the atmosphere. He will shift the whole terrain of the discourse to the extreme right.
attempting closer looking people policy seems sharon usual utmost wrong
It seems to me as usual they are looking at the wrong address. They should look closer at home. I don't think the Sharon policy of attempting to besiege a whole people ... is a policy of utmost responsibility.
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Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map,
middle
We are still in the middle of the competition.
behave borrowed cannot conflict everybody expected paradigm peace simplistic solutions
We cannot superimpose on any conflict very simple, borrowed and ready-made solutions ... The Americans constructed a simplistic paradigm for our peace process. And they expected everybody to think like Americans, to behave like Americans.
bottom far line
This is the bottom line as far as all Palestinians are concerned.
cynical extremely volatile
a very cynical and willful manipulation of an extremely volatile situation.
giving settlers
Barak is going to the other extreme, he is giving the settlers too much influence, too much power.
dealing measures security steps taken
These weren't pre-emptive moves. If we wanted to do that, we would have taken steps on other measures dealing with security or dissolving the parliament.
greater hesitant historical peace quite risks seems terms willing
Rabin had a greater sense of the historical dimension. He was quite willing to take risks which Barak is not willing to take. Barak seems reluctant, begrudging, hesitant in terms of the peace process.
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Nobody wants him to resign and I don't think he will. He understands this is a question of the national interest.
act orders themselves
They don't take orders from Arafat. They think for themselves and act for themselves.
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It's very clear that Mr. Barak's intentions all along have been to undermine the peace process, to evade it, to avoid it,