Page "Palestinian views on the peace process" Paragraph 6

However, evidence throughout history and even during the 1990s and 2000s have shown that the PLO leadership considered any peace made with Israel to be temporary until the dream of Israel's destruction could be realized.

Arafat often spoke of the peace process in terms of " justice " for the Palestinians ; terms historian Efraim Karsh described as " euphemisms rooted in Islamic and Arabic history for the liberation of the whole of Palestine from ' foreign occupiers.

'" When describing his views of the peace process among Arab leaders and in the media of the Arab world, Arafat's rhetoric became noticeably more bellicose than it was when among Western leaders and media outside of the Arab world.

The period saw a disconnect between what the PLO's second in command Abu Iyad referred to as " the language of peace " and support of Palestinian terrorism.