Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administer self-rule until free elections are held for a Palestinian council within nine months. According to a P.L.O. official, the negotiators in Oslo discussed allowing the entire executive committee of the P.L.O. to relocate to the territories. Although Israeli officials won't say so explicitly, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat will surely be among them. "It is not that he can come tomorrow," says Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin. "That still should be discussed...
...brake on Arafat's homecoming is the problem of securing his safety. Palestinian radicals have threatened to kill him, and a former chief rabbi of Israel has blessed his murder. P.L.O. sources in the territories say Arafat plans to move between two headquarters, one in Jericho and one in the Gaza Strip, a 70-mile trip by road through central Israel. The agreement guarantees safe passage, but for Arafat, "safe" would probably necessitate a military convoy. A Palestinian force that size would irritate the Israelis, while an Israeli contingent would humiliate the P.L.O. Arafat might commute by helicopter...
...force will be made up of Palestinians from the territories plus exiled Palestinians from two units of Arafat's Palestine Liberation Army: the Badr Brigade in Jordan and the Ain Jalud Brigade in Egypt. The P.L.O. began training these fighters as policemen three months ago, and 1,200 of them have already completed the course. In his office in Amman, Jordan, General Hamed Qudsiyah, head of the Badr Brigade, sits with maps of Jericho on his desk, planning for the deployment of his men there within 10 weeks -- before Arafat's first visit, he says...
...large armies lying smashed and smoking in the far deserts. No victors, no vanquished. This was a search for peace in quieted minds and hearts, though no less perilous for that. Yet it was a profound statement of hope, this singular coming together of Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat on the broad green South Lawn of the White House, with chrysanthemums in bloom and robins calling...
Nobody was sure the touch of hands would happen. No formal request had been sent through diplomatic channels. Arafat wanted desperately to come; Rabin didn't. Arafat wanted to show up on the lawn with his holster holding his faithful Smith & Wesson and, with a great flourish, to unstrap the gun and hand it to Clinton. That was vetoed: too much theater even on that day. One hour before the ceremony, the Israelis and the Palestinians both threatened to boycott over trifles: then Rabin swallowed his objections to Arafat's uniform and agreed the P.L.O. could be named...