21.  Even amid the rioting last week, Ariel Sharon, the leader of the rightist Likud, reiterated his conditional acceptance of a Palestinian state.

22.  Even before 1967, yearnings for a Palestinian state had begun to roil the Arab world.

23.  Even the right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon long ago acknowledged the inevitability of a Palestinian state.

24.  Every speech by Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, includes an invocation of a future Palestinian state "with Holy Jerusalem as its capital."

25.  Evidently, he has no use for Yasser Arafat and the prospect of a Palestinian state that he embodies.

26.  Even if an agreement is reached and a Palestinian state declared, it is possible that the issue in its entirety will be deferred.

27.  Far ahead, Israel may yet accept some sort of Palestinian state.

28.  Even the establishment of a Palestinian state would raise difficult questions for Jordan, which until 1967 governed the West Bank.

29.  Finally, the terms will have to be set out for what kind of limits might be imposed on a new Palestinian state.

30.  Finally, they will have to guarantee Arafat's credibility and the transparency of the Palestinian Authority and the new Palestinian state.