 From 1977 until 1991 , Said was an independent member of the Palestinian National Council ( PNC ) . In 1988 , he was a proponent of the two @-@ state solution to the Israeli – Palestinian conflict ( 1948 ) , and voted for the establishment of the State of Palestine at a meeting of the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers . In 1993 , Said quit his membership to the Palestinian National Council , to protest the internal politics that lead to the signing of the Oslo Accords ( Declaration of Principles on Interim Self @-@ Government Arrangements , 1993 ) , because he thought the accord terms unacceptable , and because they had been rejected by the Madrid Conference of 1991 . 
