We now have a Palestinian leadership legitimized by elections, one that appears to be opposed to using terrorism as a tool to achieve political aims. Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has a good record of questioning the wisdom of the intifada that has taken too many lives and caused only misery and destruction on all sides of this enduring conflict.
但是，并非阿拉法特辞世带来了这种乐观主义。我们现在拥有一个通过选举合法产生的、反对把恐怖主义作为达到其政治目的的工具的巴勒斯坦领导政权。默罕默德·阿巴斯（阿布·马赞）向来质疑intifada（巴勒斯坦发起的对以色列的报复行动）的行为。intifada已经肆虐了太多生命，它给这场旷日持久的斗争各方带来的只是悲惨和破坏而已。