These books were published too late for their authors to weigh the consequences of the new intifada.
Without such movement, and the continuing American pressure to bring it about, the intifada is likely to be rekindled.
The world is telling him he must douse the flames, admitting that the intifada has been a tragic failure.
Mr Abbas has to treat with the young men of post-intifada Fatah as well as with the old men of Hamas.
According to Mr Telhami, for example, al-Jazeera was the most popular source of news in Jordan for coverage of the intifada until 2003.
This has had a powerful impact on the diplomatic behaviour of Arab leaders since the start of the latest Palestinian intifada last September.
The Fatah organization said the kidnappers were not members of its group but activists in the Palestinian intifada who were acting on their own.
Meanwhile, the high-tech boom that began in the 1990s has not only survived the intifada but gone from strength to strength, fuelling impressive economic growth.
But soon after his own election, as the Palestinian intifada deepened, Mr Sharon declared Mr Arafat an incorrigible terrorist with whom Israel would no longer deal.
The Palestinians say that this is impossible and that the freeze is imperative if Mr Abbas and his government are to honour their promise to end the intifada.
The Charter that ended the intifada promised important political reforms.
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Mr Arafat, as surprised by this intifada as he was by the last one, appears to have given up trying to steer the uprising in favour of holding on for dear life.
If Mr Arafat is now signalling an exit from the intifada and so a departure from the Palestinian consensus still behind it, he will need more than a ceasefire from Mr Peres.
He is the latest of a succession of retiring generals and top security men to have urged concessions, warning that a stalemate could provoke another Palestinian intifada (uprising) or even a regional war.
Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto Saudi ruler, who was appalled at the administration's apparent indifference to Palestinian suffering in the second intifada, told Bandar to deliver a tough message threatening to freeze relations.
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Like Mr Abbas, Mr Korei was an architect of the Oslo peace accords in the early 1990s, is opposed to the armed Palestinian intifada (uprising) and has good relations with Europe, the Arab states and many Israelis.
The fact that Mr Arafat was obliged to accommodate his ceasefire to the factions' conditions is one sign of the changes the intifada has wrought in the Palestinian national movement, with power now divided between the militias and the leader.
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