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Hunt said that his 46-year long Harvard career has made for some memorable moments. His position has brought him in contact with the likes of Vaclav Havel, Jiang Zemin, Yasser Arafat, as well as Mandela and Kohl...
...Banna (Abu Nidal was his nom de guerre) was 11 when his affluent family was forced to flee the Arab city of Jaffa, now part of Israel, ahead of Jewish forces in the 1948 war. As a laborer in Saudi Arabia in the 1960s, he latched onto politics, joining Yasser Arafat's Fatah group, which would become the backbone of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Bouncing between Jordan, Sudan and Iraq, he rose through the ranks of the P.L.O...
Exquisitely rare is the news item that can induce a satisfied smile in both Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat. But both men have reason to cheer the passing of Abu Nidal, the Palestinian terrorist mastermind who, depending on who you believe, either killed himself or was shot dead this week in Baghdad. That's because in a 20-year career that began in 1974, Nidal's organization killed or wounded some 900 people in 20 different countries, making enemies both Arab and Israeli. Most of his victims were Israeli and European civilians, killed in an encyclopedia of terroristic manners: massacred...
...least the faith that if they stayed true to their cause, if they refused to bend to Israel's dictate, they would one day have the elemental right to rule themselves. If they did not know precisely how they would be delivered, they at least knew by whom: Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. Although they were trampled as a people, the Palestinians continued to function as families, clans and towns, held together by old traditions...
...Middle East and American unilateralism. The gulf between the American and European views of the Middle East could not be wider, which explains why several European allies responded to President Bush's recent call for new Palestinian leadership by emphasizing that they would deal with whomever the Palestinians elect, Yasser Arafat included. Influenced by fundamentalist Judeo-Christian beliefs, many Americans tend to see the rise of modern Israel as the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies, and they have developed an identification with Israel as a trusted ally that has only been strengthened by the events of Sept. 11 and the Aqsa...