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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat certainly qualifies as a terrorist. In the past year and a half of fighting, Israel has sustained the proportional equivalent of seven World Trade Center attacks. The problem has not been that Arafat has not done enough to stop the terrorism but that he himself has been the source of the terror. He continually incites Palestinians and has called for jihad and a million martyrs—suicide bombers—to march on Jerusalem. Asking Arafat and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to control the numerous terrorist factions is equivalent to asking Osama bin Laden...
...decades after the founding of Israel and a year after Israel's overwhelming victory in the Six-Day War, YASSER ARAFAT was emerging as the new leader of the Palestinian fedayeen, or "men of sacrifice." TIME profiled him and his movement in a 1968 cover story...
...fedayeen are most secretive of all about their high command, though the largest organization, Arafat's El Fatah, is said to be ruled by a committee of wealthy civilians in Damascus. Nor does anyone really know very much about Yasser Arafat, though everyone in the Arab world knows who he is. As El Fatah grew and felt the need for a visible spokesman, he became its ambassador extraordinary to the Arab world, its chief fund raiser and its field commander in Jordan. Arafat (his code name is Abu Ammar) sits at a wooden desk in his headquarters in Amman, dealing...
...comparison between Sharon and Summers, however, does have some legitimacy. West has tried to coerce Summers into submitting to his political agenda, like Arafat tries to coerce Sharon. West is like Arafat, although I would not call the former a terrorist. Thankfully, neither Summers or Sharon have submitted...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers) to a bull in a china shop. This analogy, at one level, is grossly incorrect and unfair: the disputed territories in Israel do not remotely resemble a shop that sells china. China does not demand appeasement through coercive violence as Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat demands from Ariel Sharon...