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News of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat??s rapidly deteriorating medical condition elicited a broad spectrum of emotional reactions on a campus still bitterly divided by the Arab-Israeli conflict, with some members of the Harvard community preparing to grieve and others jubilant...
...stretch it. Still, almost no Palestinian believes that Arafat was offered a viable and sovereign state. Palestinians’ problem with the PA, however, stems from corruption that has entrenched its institutions. Decentralization, transparency and reform were all popular Palestinian demands before they became U.S. and Israeli negotiating conditions. Arafat??s mediocre performance in these areas has severely damaged his image amongst Palestinians...
...suggests, but can advance the cause—as long as the U.S. wrests the accord’s future from Sharon and Arafat. As soon as he knew of the accord’s success, Sharon dismissed it as subversive and treasonous, because it skirted his government, courted Arafat??s approval and boosted the political stature of opponents like Beilin, intent on Israeli regime change. Arafat, meanwhile, has qualified his private support with public vacillation, at once praising the plan to U.S. and Israeli ears while insisting to hard-liners in the West Bank and Gaza that...
There won’t be peace on Plympton until we send him somewhere far, far away, like Jordan. Not the Kingdom of Jordan, mind you, for Arafat??s already tried that before, but the dormitory of Jordan. Once we banish him to the Quad, we’ll be rid of him for good...
...donuts out the door, “strapped like a bomb,” as he puts it, to his chest. Jobbins has a pile of boxes in his room that his roommates affectionately call “the compound,” a reference to Palestinian leader Arafat??s compound, recently destroyed by the Israeli government. “[The Israeli-Palestinian conflict] is serious shit,” Jobbins says, “but we’re lighthearted about it. We’re never seriously angry with each other...