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When I first offered to let Yasir Arafat stay with me in Old Quincy, I thought I was just doing the right thing. I have extra room in my suite, and he needs a place to crash now that Sharon is giving him the boot. But from the moment he came through the door he did nothing but complain...
...long hiatus. Although Administration officials insist the peace process can survive the resignation last weekend of Mahmoud Abbas as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, the U.S. has lost the one Palestinian leader with whom it believed it could do business. In response, the Administration hopes to punish Yasser Arafat for undermining Abbas' efforts to assert authority over the Palestinian security apparatus and crack down on militant groups like Hamas. A senior State Department official says the U.S. plans to push European and Arab leaders to cut ties with Arafat and demand that the Palestinians elect a new leader...
...alternatives to Arafat. The Administration tacitly admitted as much last month, when Secretary of State Colin Powell implored Arafat to help Abbas disarm Hamas. Now Arafat's position may be even stronger. Although U.S. officials say they haven't given up hope that Abbas will return, Palestinian sources say there's little chance Abbas--who tearfully accused Arafat of inciting threats against him--would return under Arafat. Among the possible successors to Abbas are Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian parliament; Nabil Shaath, who served as Abbas' Foreign Minister; and Munib al-Masri, a Palestinian businessman...
...This is my homeland ... no one can kick me out." YASSER ARAFAT, Palestinian leader, after Israel's security cabinet announced a decision to "remove...
...President facing the twin perils of a troubled Iraq occupation and a tough reelection battle is forced to contemplate a mounting crisis in his Middle East policy. You can?t live with Arafat, say the Israelis. You can?t live without him, say the Palestinians. To George W. Bush, then, the task of reconciling the obviously irreconcilable...