Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same day that Hamas terrorists murdered Nachshon Waxman, a joint American and Israeli citizen, a committee in Sweden announced its decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chair Yasaer Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. In so doing the committee reinforced and validated a dangerous misconception about the meaning of the word "peace...
...current peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, Arafat promised peace. In return, the Palestinians received the right to self-rule and, with time, the inevitable right to their own state. So far, Arafat and the Palestinians have been given their rights but have been delinquent in fulfilling their corresponding responsibilities...
...these members of Hamas were truly interested in the release of the prisoners from jail, they could have chosen any one of several options, the most obvious of which is entering the political process. Arafat, who did so proved that this was the most effective method to have members of the PLO released from Israeli jails, and in greater numbers than those demanded by Hamas...
...give too many people a second chance? Kurt Waldheim survived his past as a Nazi to head the United Nations. Yasser Arafat has weathered a reputation as a terrorist long enough to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Alfonse D'Amato is serving out one more term, not in a penitentiary for corruption, but as New York's U.S. Senator. A couple of years ago, a former Ku Klux Klan leader as close to the governorship of Louisiana as North is to the Senate seat...
...Middle East flare-up doesn't exactly set the perfect tone for the announcement expected tomorrow: that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat have won the Nobel Peace Prize...