This article is both a personal story and an insightful analysis of the Oslo years and Arafat’s and the PA’s breif period of rule in parts of Palestine.
“The Palestinian people, typically lumped together in an act of media racism as equal partners in the excesses and failings of the PA leadership, had actually figured out the extent of the situation long before the international media, who wrote — and continue to write — in terms of a “peace process” long after it became apparent that, for Israel, it was business as usual in the task of consolidating its hold on Palestinian land.”
“Neither did the rampant corruption — currently the main talking point of the Arafat funeral coverage on US networks — register in the international media for years.”