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The Nobel Peace Prize was probably damaged beyond redemption in 1994, when it was awarded to Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat — that is, if had any credibility left after being awarded in 1992 to Rigoberta Menchú, an activist for aboriginal... Full Article at National Post
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By Ofer Bavly, special to the Times In Print: Friday, December 4, 2009 Last week, the Israeli government made a historic decision to suspend construction in the West Bank for 10 months. Full Article at TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times
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Concern is growing in Israel that the Netanyahu government may be poised to release a convicted murderer and exceptionally charismatic terrorist leader in exchange for the return of IDF prisoner of war Gilad Schalit. Full Article at Jerusalem Newswire
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WASHINGTON — In the first chapter of his recent book “The Much Too Promised Land,” University alum Aaron David Miller sets the scene for the announcement in Jerusalem of one of the most historic Middle East peace conferences. Full Article at Michigan Daily
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Irwin Cotler is a man of the highest integrity, so the only explanation for his contention that Canada participated in the Durban conference on racism at the request of the Israeli government is that his memory is playing tricks on him. Full Article at National Post
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If Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of the mainstream Fatah party makes good on his threat to resign, the man constitutionally assured his post is from the rival Hamas faction. Full Article at Taiwan News
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Jim Holstun and Irene Morrison, The Electronic Intifada, 25 November 2009 Colonel Efraim (Fein) Eitam was only following orders when he told his troops to beat Ayyad Aqel in 1988. They beat him to death. Full Article at The Electronic Intifada
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This is from an article by Richard Schnee attacking Richard Goldstone for his participation in the Commission that bears his name. Full Article at Israel Matsav
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Once upon a time, I wrote a heck of a lot about Jimmy Carter, and how outrageous he was as an ex-president: ghostwriting speeches for Yasser Arafat and so on. (Yes, he did.) I was something of a Carterologist. But then I got somehow. . Full Article at The Corner
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Yasser Arafat got a Nobel Peace Prize. That should show you it's good for nothing but a doorstop. So let Barack Obama keep his. He could use it for a presidential paperweight. Full Article at Kansas.com
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It is hard to take seriously the threat by the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to declare a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza and demand recognition by the UN Security Council. Full Article at The National Newspaper
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The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen considers how the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has taught US President Barack Obama hard and humiliating lessons. The land between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea has great sunsets. Full Article at BBC News
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The PA has been disseminating the libel that Israel poisoned Yasser Arafat since Arafat's death five years ago. This accusation was reiterated this month at events commemorating the anniversary of his death. Full Article at News Blaze
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Uri Avnery remembers Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat and the historic Oslo agreement that has since turned to mush. “The public memory,” Avnery warns, “is trying nowadays to obliterate” Rabin’s “inner revolution” toward peace with the Palestinians. Full Article at Truth Dig
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I am about to depart for a lecture tour to the United States. Full Article at Jerusalem Post
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A tired but relieved Mahmoud Abbas has finally announced he had no desire to stand again in the next presidential elections. Full Article at France 24
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(IsraelNN.com) Arab children are being programmed by the Palestinian Authority to hate Jews and Israel, as demonstrated at a recent memorial for deceased Palestine Liberation Organization terror chief Yasser Arafat. Full Article at Arutz Sheva
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As so often in the Middle East, we have been here before. The latest suggestion – that a frustrated Palestinian leadership would unilaterally declare a state and invite international recognition for it – is not new. Full Article at The Independent
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Talk about the kettle calling the pot black. The Palestinian idea of negotiations goes something like this: Agree to our position in its entirety and then we can talk about the modalities of implementation. Full Article at The Astute Blogger
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It might be tempting to dismiss as diplomatic bluster the statement by Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator for the Palestinians, that the Palestinian Liberation Organisation would declare statehood unilaterally in the near future. Full Article at The National Newspaper
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Palestinian carry pictures of late leader Yasser Arafat, right, late George Habash, center, founder of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, as they march to the Sabra and Shatila mass graves in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday,...
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A Palestinian woman holds a poster of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, as others holds a poster of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, during a demonstration in support of the Fatah movement in Balata refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009.
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Fatah members sit under posters of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, center left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center right, as they attend a session of the Fatah party convention in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Friday, Aug. 7, 2009.
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Palestinian men carry posters of late leader Yasser Arafat, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, as they demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians held in Israeli jails, calling for their release during a march organized by the PLO, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 3,...
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A Palestinian Hamas policeman gestures in front of portraits of late Fatah leader Yasser Arafat (L) and jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghuti, in Gaza City on June 15, 2009.
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In this Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, with a painting of Jesus Christ, top left, and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top right, late Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, bottom left, and former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, bottom right, Palestinian painter Waleed Ayyoub adds the last...
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Palestinian children carry a giant Palestinian flag as they hold pictures of late leader Yasser Arafat, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, during a march in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 15, 2009.
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Palestinian children carry a giant Palestinian flag as they hold pictures of late leader Yasser Arafat, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, during a march in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 15, 2009.
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Palestinians carry their national flag and pictures of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) during a march to mark the 61st anniversary of Nakba in Beirut May 15, 2009.
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A picture taken on January 24, 1998 shows Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (L) greeted by Moroccan Prime Minister Abdellatif Filali at Rabat airport.
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With portraits of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, center and left, Palestinian pedestrians are seen reflected in mirrors displayed for sale at a shop in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009.
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A Palestinian masked man holds a poster bearing pictures of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (R) and late leader Yasser Arafat (L), during a rally supporting the ruling Fatah party in the West Bank city of Ramallah on February 7, 2009.
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A Palestinian militant from the Fatah group cleans his rifle as he sits under a picture of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009.
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Standing under portraits of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell briefs the media following his meeting with Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009.
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Standing under portraits of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell briefs the media following his meeting with Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009.
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Middle East Quartet envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair gestures during a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, not seen, in the West Bank city of Ramallah Sunday Jan. 25, 2009.
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Mugs featuring pictures of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and US president Barack Obama, right, are seen at a souvenir shop in Gaza City, Tuesday Jan. 20, 2009.
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Backdropped by a banner showing the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and FIFA president Sepp Blatter, a youth waves the Palestinian flag during a demonstration against Israel's military operations in Gaza, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009.
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With a portrait of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top left, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, listens to French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a press conference at Abbas' headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, as part of his two-...
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Demonstrators hold pictures of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the Piazza San Giovanni in Rome on January 2, 2009 during a protest against Israeli attacks on the Gaza strip.
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RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - JANUARY 2: In this handout image provided by the Palestinian Press Office (PPO), Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Egyptian Ambassador Ashraf Aql Faatihah visit the tomb of Yasser Arafat on January 2, 2009 in Ramallah, West Bank.
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Yemeni women hold pictures of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (L) during a protest in Sanaa against the Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip on December 30, 2008.
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A Palestinian woman holds a poster of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, as others holds a poster of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, during a demonstration in support of the Fatah movement in Balata refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009.
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My father Mohd Idreez admired Yasser Arafat and named me after him and he christened my elder brother so because he admired Imran Khan as well
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We all know what the solution is. We all know that 95 percent of the issues have been resolved or are near resolution ... But what we don't have are Israeli and Palestinian leaders with the resolve and the courage displayed by former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and former President Yasser Arafat to ach...
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The American position is flexible and changes a lot. During most of his life, Yasser Arafat was considered a terrorist, but then he received the Nobel Peace Prize
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Blessings to Yasser Arafat, and here are messages from the children of Palestine.
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I think that we're at the end of a process of abuse of the [Fatah] movement. Israel started it with the ruining of the Fatah movement and the ruining of the Palestinian Authority and its institutions, and the killing of Chairman Yasser Arafat.
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From the death of its historic leader, Yasser Arafat, to the electoral debacle in 2006 and Hamas’ takeover of Gaza in 2007, Fatah has gone from crisis to crisis ... Yet Fatah’s difficulties do not make it expendable; they make it an organization in urgent need of redress.
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Israel bears the responsibility for the elimination of Yasser Arafat because it had besieged and isolated him ... Israel also took a decision to eliminate him and then carried it out. Arafat died of poison on the way to freedom and independence.
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Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said . . . that a Palestinian state must never be established and that Yasser Arafat must be overthrown
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One of the extraordinary blind spots of contemporary Middle East history is the obsession of calling Mahmoud Abbas, whose nom de guerreor war name is Abu Mazen, a peace-loving moderate. ... Abbas was not only Yasser Arafat's deputy for 40 years, he also co-founded with him the terrorist group Fatah, mas...
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There have been numerous peace negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis. I know very well what happened in the 1990s with my husband and Yasser Arafat, how close everyone got
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I strongly believe we are helping to break down stereotypes and build dialogue. I was blown away several years ago to find out that one of the Palestinian guys I was working with belonged to Yasser Arafat's Presidential Guard, some of whose members have carried out serious attacks against Israelis.
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Mind you, the folks in Oslo have also awarded their peace prize to terrorist leader Yasser Arafat and also to President Carter, so I would respectfully question their judgment.
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The wickets are low and slow here and we knew what to expect, Sussex had a good bowling side. They have bowlers in Piyush Chawla and Yasser Arafat from the sub-continent, so we wanted to post a strong total. We knew anything above 125 will be a good total
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The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, differs from his predecessor Yasser Arafat in the way he handles political crises. Sometimes he retreats and vows to resign, as he is less able to bear external as well internal pressures
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The Guardian outdoes itself. It's now airbrushing history. In 1978, Menachem Begin won the prize with Anwar Sadat. In 1994, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin won it with Yasser Arafat. Begin, Peres and Rabin have not been included in the list above. Oh, of course, they're Israelis; presumably from the edit...
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In 1994, Yasser Arafat, from left, Yithzak Rabin and Shimon Peres were jointly awarded the prize for efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. Yet, all three were accused of putting obstacles in the way of a lasting agreement.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to people who proved controversial in hindsight, and its reputation has survived intact ... Whether one is pleased with Henry Kissinger having received it, or Yasser Arafat, or Shimon Peres, nonetheless these people were judged as working to promote peace at the mo...
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Before they break out the champagne at the White House, they may want to pause over the fact that Obama now shares this honor with Mohammed el-Baradei, Yasser Arafat, and flagrant liar Rigoberta Menchu Tum.
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Barack Obama linked to terrorist Yasser Arafat
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My father Mohd Idreez admired Yasser Arafat and named me after him and he christened my elder brother so because he admired Imran Khan as well
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Personally I well remember one sunny afternoon on the south lawn of the White House when Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook hands and then the terrible disappointment at Camp David when attempts to finally forge that peace agreement were not successful.
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