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clashes between Palestinians and Israeli armed forces.
The problem described by the PNA as "Israeli aggression" against "Palestinian sovereignty" was
impossible to solve without interference from the international community and the Arab world.
The sole reason that a Palestinian state has never come into existence is a personal choice made
by Yasser Arafat at the turn of the millennium: he opted to remain a revolutionary leader who
was the center of the entire world's attention rather than becoming president of a small and
rather poor country.
In conclusion, it seems worth emphasizing once again that there have been numerous reasons
for the failure of the plan to create an Arab Palestinian state, including splits in Palestinian elites
and hostility between Palestinian leaders on whom the political process has hinged, the generally
traditional character of Palestinian "inner" society, the domination of informal institutions and
practices, the religious aspect of the conflict, extremely unfavorable external factors and the role
of the United States in the Middle East.