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March 14, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/14/africa/ME-FEA-GEN-Palestinian-Old-Guard.php

Among the Palestinian Old Guard, Aging and Sidelined, Defiance Mixes with Regrets

[AP/International Herald Tribune] Looking back to the UN partition plan of 1947, which envisaged Jewish and Palestinian states living side by side in peace, Nayef Hawatmeh comes to the painful acknowledgment of an opportunity missed. "After 60 years, we are struggling for what we could have had in 1947," laments the leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. "We have missed many historic opportunities." In a year when Israel is celebrating its 60th birthday, Hawatmeh and his generation of leaders are still in exile and fading from the scene.

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