Are we supposed to celebrate that the Palestinian people, like the Iraqi people, now have a puppet leader installed by Israeli occupation forces and the US? Are we to cheer Abu Mazin because he apologized for calling Israel the "Zionist enemy" when this enmity is proven daily by Israeli killing of Palestinians? This silly and petty man, Abu Mazin, is revealed in his dreadful account of the Oslo process (Through Secret Channels: The Road to Oslo: Senior PLO Leader Abu Mazen's Revealing Story of the Negotiations With Israel). I reviewed this book in the Journal of Palestine Studies (Summer 1996), and here are excerpts: "While Abbas prides himself on his knowledge of Zionism, he incorrectly attributes the notorious saying: "a land without a people for a people without a land" to Theodor Herzl (p. 207 and 217), whereas its author was Israel Zangwill. He claims that he understands the politics of the Israeli Knesset better than Shimon Perez (p. 53). And his knowledge of the United States is lacking: He insists that the US government changed its policy toward the Palestinians, and he attributes the change--deemed favorable--to American popular antipathy to the Zionist lobby (p. 27). This book includes some trivial and unnecessary information. Such details include the fact that President Clinton "had positioned my chair as I sat down to sign" (p. 3) and that he admired the "president of the most powerful state in the world" because he spoke "with such frankness" (p. 203) [this about Clinton mind you]. Indeed, Clinton was frank about his hostility to Palestinian national rights and his embrace of Israeli militancy. Abbas also tells us that Henry Kissinger said to him: "You did a good job". (p. 215)....Abbas seems impressed with theatrics and diplomatic pleasantries. This account is useful, but it only reinforces the impression that those who negotiated with Israel ultimately did their people a great injustice and provided their opponent a great service."