Word: yasser
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...agreed to stop calling for the destruction of Israel, Bill Clinton had the chutzpah to want more -- from the Israeli side. Benjamin Netanyahu didn't help him -- from Israel's perspective, Clinton's trip represented a terrific loss. And so, in a fruitless two-hour meeting with Clinton and Yasser Arafat Tuesday morning, Netanyahu reiterated that there would be no more troop withdrawals unless the Palestinians made further concessions. Arafat left the meeting early and without comment -- though he was doubtless smiling inside...
...Yasser Arafat has begun to share an unhappy place with Benjamin Netanyahu -- in the spotlight of Palestinian anger. At least 40 people were wounded Monday in clashes over the prisoner release issue, but Israel's freeing of petty thieves rather than political prisoners is in keeping with the letter of the Wye Accord. "Arafat may complain that it violates the 'spirit' of Wye, but there was no spirit in this agreement," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The accord was negotiated in bad faith and neither side will do anything they're not compelled...
Palestinian leader YASSER ARAFAT'S outburst last week--threatening to renew the intifadeh and warning Israel "our rifles are ready"--seemed strange, given that the Knesset was debating a controversial land transfer to the Palestinian Authority. According to a senior aide, however, the Chairman's remarks, to a gathering of his Fatah organization, were meant for local consumption only. Arafat, says the official, is furious with the group's secretary-general, MARWAN BARGHOUTI, who has led an anticorruption campaign within Fatah that culminated in an anti-P.A. riot in Ramallah last month. The ferocious rhetoric, says the source...
...Yasser Arafat, who used to show up with an olive branch and a gun, now comes to Washington with his bank book. In a meet-and-greet with President Clinton, Arafat secured a pledge for about $400 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority in addition to the hundred mil the U.S. already kicks in yearly. The announcement comes as part of a kind of Palestinian telethon in which Arafat will meet with representatives from some 45 countries to try to better the $2.3 billion they contributed in a similar fund-raiser five years...
...attention to the Israeli behind the curtain. Yasser Arafat opened the new Gaza International Airport Tuesday in a fanfare of publicity, declaring it an important milestone on the road to Palestinian statehood. "But once the emotion has died down and Palestinians realize the airport is another Israeli checkpoint, the response will be different," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad...