...At the Madrid Peace Conference of 1992, the world discovered a new Palestinian leadership... voices of wisdom and moderation. ...[T]he Israeli delegation, notably... Shamir and... Netanyahu, felt in the face of a Palestinian leadership that could not be branded "terrorist" or "extremist." The Palestinians who had come... lived in Palestine and, because of their work as teachers, lawyers and doctors, were in daily contact with their people. They were not professional "liberators".... They did not want the Palestinian people to kill and die so that Arab despots could silence their own people in the name of the Palestinian "cause."... Talking...