Sounds to me like having been written by Sery Nusseyba

Well, if his line is domineering now rather than the extremists, something good may have come out of all this

It seems to a product of the English Department in the Arafat Authority Regime. Hanan Ashrawi or Sery Nusseyba, for instance. I suppose those people are in tragic situation, because they can realize the hopeless position which Mr. Arafat is part of it.

A. Mann

Then again, they may be, and probably are, completely unrepresentative of the situation in the West Bank and Gaza, which is decentralized in the extreme.