 Said was displeased that the Oslo Accords would not produce an independent Palestine , and that they were politically inferior to a plan that Yasser Arafat had rejected — a plan which Said had presented to Arafat on behalf of the U.S. government in the late 1970s . Especially troublesome to Said was his belief that Yasir Arafat had betrayed the right of return of the Palestinian refugees to their houses and properties in the Green Line territories of pre – 1967 Israel , and that Arafat ignored the growing political threat of the Israeli settlements in the occupied territories that had been established since the conquest of Palestine in 1967 . By 1995 , in response to Said 's political criticisms , the Palestinian Authority ( PA ) banned the sale of Said 's books ; however , the PA lifted the book @-@ ban when Said publicly praised Yasir Arafat for rejecting Prime Minister Ehud Barak 's offers at the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David ( 2000 ) in the U.S. 
