Word: yasser
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With world attention riveted on rising Arab-Israeli tensions, TIME has steadily increased its reporting of the people and events in the center of the conflict. Our coverage has included interviews with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad and two talks with Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, along with a cover story on the P.L.O. In these and other articles we told the Arab side of the tragic story. This week our cover focuses on embattled Israel. We present an interview with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, an account of the arms lineup stocked by both sides since...
Accumulated Rage. In the town's savage mood, some journalists also found themselves the objects of anger. Dan Drooz, reporting for TIME, was harassed for 20 minutes by one man, who shook him and shouted over and over, "Tell [Yasser] Arafat we got his message! Now look at that dead shit over there and ask him if he got ours!" Later, Drooz found the man weeping on a lawn opposite the house where the four citizens of Bet She'an-like 59 other Israelis in 25 earlier raids this year-had been killed...
...Arab-Israeli conflict sometimes seems to have a cruel perversity all its own, a self-fulfilling prophecy that leaves the participants forever locked in a death struggle. The rise of Yasser Arafat's P.L.O. as the acknowledged voice of the Palestinians has not helped the cause of negotiation, but it is a fact that Israel must face. Nor does the game of brinkmanship, such as the one that is being played in the waning days of the U.N. mandate, bring peace any closer...
...speech to the U.N. General Assembly last week, P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat was trying to make a propaganda point, seeking to remind many Third World delegates that they too were once considered outlaws by much of the world. His statement was not merely rhetorical. Like Arafat, many of his listeners had in fact once been hunted men-and had hunted other men themselves. Terrorism is universally repugnant to standards of human decency, but in the past 25 years, sadly enough, it has been essential to the birth of many of the world's now sovereign nations...
Inevitable Fate. Several Western U.N. delegates, including U.S. Ambassador Scali, disputed the legality of the ruling and were clearly worried about the precedent being set-a worry reinforced by the remarks of P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat to the General Assembly. Arafat prophesied South Africa-style ostracism for Israel. "Such is the inevitable fate of every racist country that adopts the law of the jungle, usurps the homeland of others...