Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israeli police who until recently slept there had already moved into other, more comfortable quarters downtown. The Israel Defense Forces fidgeted, guns at the ready, glancing at their watches as they eyed the restive crowd. Citing snags in the Cairo negotiations between Israel and the P.L.O., Yasser Arafat's representative sent word at the last minute that he could not accept the building. When the crowd learned this, the waiting suddenly ended. "Down with Israel! . . . Long live the P.L.O.! . . . Allahu Akbar!" they shouted, as boys scaled the barrier to plant a Palestinian flag on top of the fence...
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, however, called these actions "empty, hollow, gestures," and claimed that "a gang of settlers did the shooting...and Israeli soldiers later opened fire on the worshippers" (an unfounded claim since disproven by the commission of inquiry). Arafat then led a Palestinian withdrawal from the peace process...
...after the attacks, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said that Israel "will do whatever [it] can to continue the peace momentum." Meanwhile, Yasser Arafat passed on a chance to publicly condemn the attacks, and under extreme pressure, more than two days after the Afula incident, the PLO simply stated that it "expresses its regrets for the incident which took place in Afula and which cost the life of a number of citizens." After the massacre, Yitzhak Rabin had a very different reaction: "As a Jew, as an Israeli, I am shamed by the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate...
This balancing act is not helped by statements such as the ones made last Saturday by PLO Executive Committee member Yasser Abed-Rabbo, who said that "the deal is dying and the diplomatic process is reaching total impasse" in arguing for immediate negotiations on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Notwithstanding the terrible timing of this statement, coming so soon after Afula, Abed-Rabbo, and the PLO should realize that, at this time, the chances for success in negotiations over the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are nil. What should be pressed...
...Mike, "Dan replied, "you're Jewish too." I realized that he was correct, and that, in fact, we had gone to the same Jewish summer camp in New Jersey. Memories of my past crises of faith came flooding back to me, such as the time Yasser Arafat crashed my Bar Mitzvah, and the time I tried to sue my parents to return my foreskin. So much for my epiphany. I had met the Other, and he was me. At least Ahab got to fight a whale...