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When the U.S. invaded Iraq four years ago, Yasser Obaid Hussein's life was full of peril - but his mind was filled with hope. Night after night, his modest Baghdad apartment was shaken by the U.S. "shock and awe" bombing campaign. His pregnant wife Sheherezad was worried that a cruise missile might crash through the window. To calm her and their three children, Yasser tried to stay positive. "If we survive the bombs," he recalls saying, "we will have a wonderful new life...
...seeds were planted by Yasser Arafat. When he ran the Palestinian Authority, Arafat's ruling philosophy involved playing numerous security forces against each other, so no single one could ever become too powerful. The result: several organizations, no clear hierarchy, a lot of guns and a lot of people with interests they want to protect. Hamas has its own forces, too, including its powerful Executive Force and the Izzadine al Qassam Brigades. Then there are other insurgent groups and numerous clans, gangs, and families with their own militias and interests, ranging from offering protection to taking revenge, from committing crimes...
...simplified the argument and blamed the Palestinian people for the irresponsibility of their political leaders.” Dershowitz opened the talk with a brief history of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, remarking that Carter was “responsible in part” for convincing the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to walk away from a deal that would have created two separate states in the region. “He’s the reason Palestine isn’t today a state,” Dershowitz said. Some of his harshest words came in response to a passage...
Whatever happened to Yasser Arafat? In the summer of 1982 the redoubtable chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization was driven out of Lebanon by Israeli invaders, and his forces scattered throughout the Arab world. The elusive Arafat skipped to Tunisia, where he pursued the P.L.O.'s diplomatic and military strategies, including a failed joint peace effort with an old adversary, Jordan's King Hussein. Now Arafat's P.L.O. has returned to Lebanon with vengeance. In the bloodiest fighting since rival Christian factions clashed a year ago, Arafat is struggling to regain his former stronghold in the strife-torn country...
...Then we went through a period of almost two years of kind of very tough violence with the - you remember the Dolfinarium and then the Passover massacre, when it was very clear that Yasser Arafat's leadership was going to do nothing, and then a kind of crucial decision by the Administration to say Arafat's done and the Palestinians need new leadership. That took some time to work through...