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Defining Moments: Yasser Arafat The life and death of the Palestinian leader, in photos...
...Arafat's Ambiguous Legacy Palestinians ready to compromise will claim to be completing Arafat's journey. So will those wanting to fight on [11/11/2004...
...Palestinian Now? As President Bush immerses himself in the Middle East, Abbas and Arafat are jostling for the title [6/9/2003...
...Boxed In An Israeli assault on his compound humiliates Arafat [4/8/2002] More Arafat Stories...
...father of the nation" appellation is not simply a product of Arafat's 35 years at the helm of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), or his half-century in charge of the secular-nationalist Fatah movement he founded in 1956, and which remains the single largest party in Palestinian politics. It derives from the fact that Arafat's ascent in the national movement epitomized a Palestinian declaration of independence. Before Arafat and his comrades took charge of the PLO in 1968, the very term "Palestinian" hardly existed in the international lexicon. The fate of the Arab residents of what...