81.  What the Israelis needed was a loud and clear proclamation, made not only before the West, but before the Palestinian people.

82.  Will he give the Palestinian people a way to achieve what they need to achieve?

83.  Yasser Arafat, for decades, was seen as a man who had control of the Palestinian people, both politically and emotionally.

84.  Without the United States, Israel and the Palestinian people cannot make peace.

85.  Zakhar, for his part, stressed the importance of unity among the Palestinian people.

86.  Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Sunday said the Palestinian people will choose his successor.

87.  Palestinian Planning Minister Nabil Shaath denied there was a violation, saying that in the peace agreements, Israel recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.

88.  Our hand is and always will be extended for peace with the Palestinian people and the people of the whole region.

89.  Palestinian leaders must act now against those responsible, he said, and make clear to the Palestinian people that terror and violence must stop.

90.  Palestinian officials have called the closure a declaration of war on the Palestinian people.