Word: yasser
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...First Lady has been reluctant to take stances on important, albeit divisive, issues pertinent to her candidacy. Take, for example, Clinton's recent trip to the Middle East, where she attracted negative attention for failing to respond directly to the allegations of Suha Arafat, the wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, that Israel had used poison gas against the Palestinians. Although Clinton later dismissed Suha Arafat's claims as "baseless," she justified her earlier inaction by appealing to her diplomatic role as the First Lady...
Yitzhak Rabin risked - and lost - his life for the Oslo Accord, and President Clinton hopes his memory will inspire Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak to take the giant steps required to complete the peace process. But it may take more than even Rabin's inspirational example, commemorated by Arafat, Barak and Clinton in a ceremony in the Norwegian capital Tuesday, to spur progress in the troubled march to peace. After all, even at the height of the optimism and trust forged between Rabin and Arafat, the "final status" issues currently on the table were considered too contentious to tackle...
...road to a Palestinian state may now be open, but Palestinians aren?t exactly queuing up at the on-ramps. Yasser Arafat Tuesday approved a draft agreement to open a direct road link between the Palestinian-controlled territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which he plans to combine into a Palestinian state. But Palestinians will be allowed to travel the road only at Israel?s discretion, and that?s left many of Arafat?s constituents angry and frustrated. "To travel this road to Gaza in my car, I?ll need a permit from the Israelis," says TIME West...
Jordan may want to help Israel and Yasser Arafat as they try to reach a peace settlement, but it?s not about to put its own stability on the line for its neighbors. So although Jordanian authorities on Wednesday showed themselves willing by arresting three senior leaders of the anti-peace-process Hamas organization, King Abdullah?s government will stop short of a full-scale confrontation with Hamas. "Jordan itself has no problem with Hamas, and this clampdown is being undertaken on behalf of Israel and the Palestinians," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "But Jordan will always...
Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak prefers to do things himself ? and usually late at night. So does Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. And so, although Barak sent his foreign mininster, David Levy, to start the historic "final status" peace talks with Palestinian negotiator Abu Mazen on Monday, he raised eyebrows in Israel Friday by holding a secret overnight meeting directly with Arafat to discuss some of those same final status issues. It's not unusual for leaders to intercede when talks between negotiators deadlock, but these talks had only just gotten started ? and Levy first heard of the meeting...