Word: arafats
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November has not been kind to Yasser Arafat. He has suffered unprecedented public protests against his rule in the Gaza Strip, including the humiliation of being ousted from a funeral by jeering constituents. Palestinian authorities disclosed a rare outbreak of cholera, after initially denying the news. And, worst of all, Arafat's Islamic opponents pledged to continue their campaign of violence against Israel, and to include his security forces among their targets. Late last week a suicide bomber bicycled into a group of Israeli soldiers and police near the Israeli settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip and detonated...
Until the suicide attack, Arafat had managed to put his adversities to use in his most recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The Palestinian's standing in the Gaza Strip had dropped so low that the Israeli leader -- though no fan of Arafat's -- felt it necessary to prop him up with promises to ease an economic boycott and expand Palestinian autonomy, which is limited to enclaves in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, to the rest of the West Bank. "The situation is alarming," said a senior Israeli negotiator. "We are worried that our agreements will be overturned...
...unprecedented clash with their own people, PLO police fired on Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza City -- killing 13 people and setting off riots aimed at undermining PLO chairmanYasser Arafat's increasingly shaky rule. TIME reporter Jamil Hamad, who was on the scene, says about 200 people were wounded, at least 30 seriously, when the police strafed demonstrators protesting the arrests of 160 Islamic extremists. Outside a nearby hospital, angry Palestinians screamed, "Arafat, traitor," and "Arafat, killer" as two police cars and a movie theater were set on fire. "All the accusations are pointed at Arafat, not the major or colonel...
Islamic militants denounced P.L.O. chief Yasser Arafat as an Israeli collaborator and pushed him out the back door of a Gaza City mosque into a downpour as he tried to join a funeral service. Shouting "Get out of here, Arafat, get out!," the angry crowd forced him to leave the ceremony for Hani Abed, an Islamic Jihad activist who was killed in a car bombing that many Gazans blame on Israel...
...Arafat Gets the Boot