never in the entire process of negotiation did the Palestinians review the documents with legal consultants (except on August 20, 1993,
The PLO is legal consultant Taher Shash). Hence, when the agreement was made public, the Palestinian negotiators were criticized for not having consulted experts on various issues. Opposition was voiced particularly by the official Palestinian delegation and the Executive Committee in Tunis, who had been excluded and kept in the dark (Abbas 1995 206-209; Ashrawi 1995; 260,278). The israelis also avoided any involvement of experts, including military ones, and Rabin "ended up vetting every of the DOP (Makovsky 1996 51).