This is several months old but still valuable in giving perspective on current events. The author it seems is careful to be neutral. Yet his account seems damning to Arafat as I see it. Were the Palestinians simply too stupid to make peace? As to Barak's not revealing the endgame, anyone who has played poker could tell you about how to play this game.
most Palestinians were more resigned to the two-state solution than they were willing to embrace it; they were prepared to accept Israel's existence, but not its moral legitimacy.Of course. From the Palestinian perspective, per the PLO charter, the destruction of Israel is the goal. Their plan for the destruction of Israel reaffirmed in 1974 viewed a state in the west bank as a stepping stone, legitimizing their cause, to the final goal.
There is nothing for the Palestinians to "embrace", and they won't accept Israel's existance nor legitimacy, it simply would have been another small victory for the tactics of terror on the road to the destruction of the Zionist entity.