(Business Week)Stanley Reed - The administration may consider Arafat's departure as an opportunity to resume talks. Yet anyone who thinks Arafat's successors are ready to make major concessions is probably dreaming. They don't have the popular support to give up longstanding positions on territory or the right of Palestinians to return to what is now Israel. "They have more willingness to negotiate but less ability to [make concessions]," says Rashid Khalidi, professor of history at Columbia University in New York.
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