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...while the Harvard students in attendance said the rally urged the Bush administration to support Israel and refuse negotiations with the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, the overwhelming call of the rally was for peace in Israel...
Around the world, government officials and diplomats are worried over the health and safety of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Yasser Arafat. As a result of Israel’s occupation of his headquarters in Ramallah, Arafat has been isolated on a single floor, at times without electricity. The photograph of Arafat, sitting in the dark, with cell phone in hand and sidearm on the desk before him, makes one wonder if perhaps the stalwart leader of the Palestinian national movement hasn’t finally backed himself into a corner from which no escape is possible. On the heels...
Chaudry claims that Arafat can do little to stop terror because of his “eroding power.” Are we supposed to feel bad for Arafat, a man who pays off the families of suicide bombers and whose own political party is responsible for numerous terrorist attacks on Israelis...
...does the Palestinian Authority (PA). Instead of spending their money on infrastructure, education, or any needs of a future state, however, the PA has instead chosen to invest in weapons, as was confirmed on Jan. 3 when the Karine A ship was intercepted. PA Leader Yasser Arafat has extended his “elected” presidency indefinitely, and there is no democratic process, quieting all Palestinian voices. Suicide bombings, funded by the PA, occur regularly...
Lastly, the Americans have called on Arafat to do more, which the writer suggests is impossible One thing that he could easily do, something that doesn’t require a personal jet or a bodyguard or even a working cellphone, he has refused to do: condemn suicide bombings, in Arabic. Until he does so, how can Israel relate to him, and the people who maintain him as their leader, as anything less than an enemy? It is by his own choice, with the rejection of the Barak plan and every day since, that Palestinians do not have a state...