Word: yasir
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After more than 18 months of vacation from the peace process, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat have come together in Wye, Md., in an effort to broker a further Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, but the negotiations have so far yielded only more tension. This atmosphere was compounded by a grenade attack early Monday morning at a bus station in Beersheba that wounded 67 people...
...Everybody watched the handshake on the White House lawn," said Ashrawi--referring to the 1993 meeting between Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and the late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin--"and they assumed there was peace...
Prompting some to seriously question the aging black leader's sanity, Mandela said at one point that he claimed Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat (who, we recall, was at the time still considered by most to be a dangerous terrorist), Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi, as his comrades-in-arms. It was a statement that raised more than a few eyebrows and prompted Mandela's handlers to suggest that, in the future, he refrain from moving too far from scripted statements...
...past year, Christopher has focused his efforts on the Middle East, specifically, facilitating the peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. In addition, he has spent time smoothing relations in China and has kept an eye on the mass demonstrations against President Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia...
Rudenstine says the fact that Harvard has such a high-profile and often attracts extremely influential politicians as speakers--such as PLO leader Yasir Arafat who visited here last fall, shortly after the assassination of Israeli President Yitzhak Rabin--the University has little to fear...