Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest Arab summit, however, produced no progress in the Middle East's other continuing crisis, the Arab-Israeli conflict. The delegates largely ignored the presence of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, and King Hussein tried huddling with him to soothe any hurt feelings. Nonetheless, relations between the two leaders were strained. Arafat petulantly boycotted a summit banquet hosted by Hussein because he was not accorded the honors of a head of state...
...deserves to be received by Pope John Paul II. Jesus loved sinners while detesting their sins. It is the Pope's job to represent this remarkable Jew in today's complex world. The Pope has extended his embrace to Mehmet Ali Agca, who tried to assassinate him, to Yasser Arafat and to the Communist rulers in his native Poland. So should he embrace Waldheim...
Last fall, for instance, Moscow arranged several meetings of the P.L.O.'s main factions, leading directly to a reconciliation in April between P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization and two Damascus-based hard-line groups. The result was a more unified and radicalized P.L.O. in which the influence of two pro-Western countries, Egypt and Jordan, was diminished...
...routinely granted. The Holy See noted its long- standing good relations with Austria and pointed to the Pope's record of condemning Nazi crimes. Many Jewish groups in the U.S. and Europe, however, felt differently. Some compared the meeting to one between the Pope and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat in 1982 and warned that the latest visit would set back Jewish-Roman Catholic relations...
...there a solution to the impasse? Both Arabs and Israelis are hopelessly divided at present. Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization still commands the loyalty of the vast majority of West Bank Palestinians, but Arafat has broken his strategic ties with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, the two Arab moderates with whom he might have formed a credible alliance. The two major political parties in Israel cannot agree even on whether to enter into negotiations with the Palestinians under United Nations auspices...