Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sews better than I do ... We fight." -- SUHA ARAFAT, 29, DESCRIBING HER YEAR-OLD MARRIAGE TO THE 64-YEAR-OLD P.L.O. CHIEF
Syria, on the other hand, remains rather glum about the P.L.O.-Israeli deal. Although President Hafez Assad gave it distant approval, he is miffed at being made to look as if he is following Arafat in concluding an accord with Israel instead of playing the lead Arab role he prefers. He might also fear that the Israeli-P.L.O. agreement sets an uncomfortable precedent for his own negotiations to get the Golan Heights back from Israel. The Declaration of Principles foresees a gradual, step-by-step Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Assad seeks a total Israeli...
...Morocco may still be targets for subversion and terrorism by Islamic fundamentalists, crying louder than ever that their governments are selling out to the Zionist enemy and its prime backer, the U.S. But those governments will be able to reply convincingly that the fundamentalists are being more Palestinian than Arafat; any deal good enough for the P.L.O. should be good enough for the rest. Fundamentalist Iran and outlaw Iraq doubtless will do everything they can to destroy the budding peace, but that could just drive them further into isolation...
...aggressive international mischief, it might have sustained its oppressive empire for many more years. The unrelenting pressure from the U.S. and NATO that forced Moscow into bankruptcy opened the way for dissent that swelled to overwhelming dimensions. A whole realignment of the geopolitical stars brought Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat to their fateful accord: the end of the cold war eliminated superpower rivalry for the affections of Arab states, and made Israel realize that it could not count on a strategic alliance with the U.S.; victory in the Gulf War made the U.S. the sole regional power, opened the door...
Brushing aside the protests of hard-liners on both sides, Israel recognized the P.L.O. as the representative of the Palestinian people and the P.L.O. recognized Israel's right to exist unmolested. Yasser Arafat also suggested that Palestinian residents of the occupied territories end their nearly six- year-long anti-Israeli rebellion. Other long-standing Middle East stalemates began to budge as well: Jordan was poised to conclude an "agenda for peace" with Israel as soon as a P.L.O. deal for self-rule was signed. Following Israel's lead, the U.S. will also begin direct talks with the P.L.O...