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
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.
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.
act orders themselves
They don't take orders from Arafat. They think for themselves and act for themselves.
accepting beat either entirely exposes intentions peace policy process pursue submission
This really exposes Barak's real intentions when it comes to peacemaking, that either (Israelis) beat (the Palestinians) into submission in accepting what (Israelis) want, or (Israel) will suspend the peace process and ... pursue a policy which is entirely anti-peace,
action cooked corrupt excuse freeze grasp instead onto sit taking throw
But instead of taking action, he cooked up a deal: freeze everything, don't throw out the corrupt officials, sit and do nothing, grasp onto the excuse of the elections.
centrist party represents unilateral
I don't see Sharon's new party as a centrist party. It's a party that represents a unilateral approach,
occupation source violence
The occupation is a source of violence that has to stop.
along avoid clear intentions peace undermine
It's very clear that Mr. Barak's intentions all along have been to undermine the peace process, to evade it, to avoid it,
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.
bipolar looks
It looks like we will have a bipolar reality.
numbers rights conscious
It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.
reality thinking relief
Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects.