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...courtyard of Yasser Arafat's battered Ramallah compound, a few hundred Palestinians newly released from Israel's jails gathered last Thursday lunchtime with their families. The Palestinian leader emerged smiling from a meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to greet the crowds. Arafat puckered his lips and blew kisses, no doubt expecting the kind of drawn-out session of mass adulation he relishes. But the prisoners knew whom to thank for their freedom. "Long live Hizballah!" they chanted. "Long live Hassan Nasrallah!" The name of the Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist militia leader wiped the smile off Arafat's lips...
...This document is virtual, but all of us are real, and our heartbeats are real." YOSSI BEILIN, former Israeli Justice Minister, on the proposed Geneva Accord, a detailed plan for peace in the Middle East, spearheaded by him and his Palestinian counterpart, a former Information and Culture Minister, Yasser Abed Rabbo...
...allegations of corruption, dissolved its parliament and called elections for December, a year early. The third attempt in just over a year to elect a new President was set to be held on Sunday. Previous polls failed due to low voter turnout. Meet the New Boss MIDDLE EAST Yasser Arafat swore in a new Palestinian cabinet, headed by PM Ahmed Qurie. The new lineup seemed weaker than that of Qurie's predecessor, Mahmoud Abbas, who resigned in September after Arafat undermined his attempts to curb Islamic terrorists. Qurie lost his struggle with Arafat to name a strong security chief...
Halevi said that he was told in private conversation by ousted Palestinian General Nasser Yousef that Yousef legitimately wanted to crack down on Islamist terrorist groups and knew where they were located, but was prevented from taking action by Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat...
...back as September 14, 1993, only days after the signing of the Oslo agreement, Halevi said, the Jerusalem Post ran a story saying Yasser Arafat had told a Jordanian television station that he only wanted to negotiate with Israel so that the Palestinians would gain land and thereby cause the weakening of Israel...