Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been said in recent days that the Mayor of New York City prostituted himself to the Jewish community in his ejection of Palestinian Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat from a social gathering of world leaders at Lincoln Center last Monday. The intimation is that he sold his office for a quick hit, a cheap thrill and great pay. Of course, who can blame him? The Jews control all the votes, and all the money, and the national media, so it obviously made a great deal of sense to pander to them...
...Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and chair of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), told a packed ARCO Forum he will continue to work toward peace in the Middle East despite opposition from Palestinian and Israeli extremists...
...precisely at the moment that I envision myself clapping, a lump develops in my throat. The Yasser Arafat of yesterday is still very much alive, maybe not in the news, but in my mind. He was the head of the P.L.O., an organization recognized across the world as one heavily involved in terrorist activities...
...accessory to terrorism," claiming that he "knows of, condones, and lends support to such acts." It was the U.S. and Israel against the rest of the world, yet we considered this man to be reprehensible, justifying our decision to deny him entrance to our country. This is the Yasser Arafat of yesterday. This is the man for whom I hesitate to applaud...
Aides to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani quietly asked Yasser Arafat to leave a special New York Philharmonic performance of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" Monday night because he was not invited, the Associated Press reports. Giuliani had said that the PLO leader and Fidel Castro were not to join other dignitaries in town for the U.N. celebration, but Arafat turned up in his highly-visible, checked headress anyway...