Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would not invite Yasser Arafat to anything, anywhere, anytime, any place. I don't forget," the Mayor said. Forget what? That some Palestinian henchperson, of which Yasser wasn't even one, killed the American Jew Leon Klinghoffer on the cruise ship Achille Lauro a decade ago? Or that other Palestinians, even if they were sent by the organization over which he had full control, murdered the entire Israeli Olympic team at Munich...
...realize Israel's necessity in dealing with Yasser--all those pestering Palestinians on its border. Of course they can't just get rid of them, so let them have their own little state. Guise your gestures in robes of national autonomy. Rabin gets to look so magnanimous shaking Arafat's hand. And what photos with the White House in the background and at the Nobel Prize ceremony. The world is applauding. How can Giuliani even contest Yasser's preeminence...
That's the end of Giuliani's career. He must be the only public person left not aware that Yasser is a great guy. When Arafat came to speak at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum, even President Rudenstine lauded his 20 year "loyalty to the Palestinian cause." Students, faculty and assorted bigwigs turned out in droves to hear him. Harvard was impressed with itself that evening that it could draw such a distinguished world leader. And rightly so--even the Boston Globe gave over half of its front page...
...have all been enlightened by Arafat's real politics. Terrorism works. It won't stain your permanent record. It will accord you respect for loyalty to a cause, any cause, in a world ruled by diplomatic men living in a more civilized moral vacuum. Now Yasser can be one of us. We should welcome his visit for he is a true diplomat. It seems that the Mayor mistook principle for policy. Let's not let that happen again...
...West Bank. But in an interview from the Israeli prison where he was jailed for life in 1989, Sheik Ahmed Yassin told an Israeli Arab lawmaker that the agreement could not be ignored and that he was willing to "give it a chance." The pronouncement came as P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat allowed the previously banned Hamas weekly newspaper Al Watan to resume publication...