| Before, the administration seemed to want it to do kind of a good cop, bad cop with Arafat. |
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| During the last two decades of his life, Arafat found himself backed into a corner. |
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| At the head of the tomb is a photograph of Arafat with a kaffiyeh draped over it. |
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| Arafat and aides will have to find new resources of endurance and acceptance unless they are prepared to withdraw prematurely. |
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| We offered to share our most precious possession, Jerusalem, with our bitter enemy, Yasir Arafat. |
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| In 1980, Arafat returned to Jordan for the funeral of Jordanian Prime Minister Abdelhamid Sharaf. |
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| Mr Arafat comes over as an impossible ditherer, exasperating even to his comrades. |
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| That said, it is completely untrue that this new government is an attempt to replace, or edge out, President Arafat. |
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| However, we must also continue to ask Mr Arafat to tackle the terrorists on his own home turf. |
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| All subsequent sessions of the PNA have been chaired by President Arafat or someone deputed by him. |
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| This does not mean that I believe President Arafat is absolved of all responsibility. |
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| And yet, when your correspondent and a scribble of British journalists dined with Mr Arafat last week, the president had a twinkle in his eye. |
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| Massud Rajavi, the head of the MEK, greeted Arafat in Tehran with a kalashnikov as a welcoming gift. |
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| Huda al-Niran, a 22-year-old Saudi woman, fell in love with Arafat Muhammad, a Yemeni, while he was working in Saudi Arabia. |
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| The 22-year-old Huda al-Niran, a Saudi, fell in love with Yemeni Arafat Muhammad while he was working in Saudi Arabia. |
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| All are from Fatah, and could not get away with countenancing an agreement that Mr Arafat had rejected. |
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| Chairman Arafat himself has been confined to his compound in Ramallah and his supplies of electricity and water have been intermittently cut off. |
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| As I watched Mr. Blair in his press conference this morning with Mr. Arafat, I saw a statesman in the world attempting to do just that. |
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| I think I can say that Yasser Arafat is not a corrupt man, but he has surrounded himself with a corrupt regime. |
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| Furthermore, we are convinced that Yasser Arafat has played a very destructive role in the efforts to resolve this conflict. |
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| Chairman Arafat and those in positions of authority who fail to prevent such practices bear the gravest personal and political responsibility. |
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| Masri first met Arafat in 1963, and says he initially was skeptical of the then-leader of the Fatah Movement. |
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| The first of these failures was the refusal of Yasser Arafat to take the peace process begun in Oslo all the way. |
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| The bag pictures Arafat in his trademark kaffiyeh and uniform. |
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| But, in a major way, harping on the sins of Arafat and Abbas is like flogging a dead horse. |
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| But it is doubtful anyone will ever prove who poisoned Arafat, if poisoned he was. |
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| The many cold-blooded murders for which Arafat was responsible in the course of his life were politely passed over in silence as they remained entirely unavenged. |
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| And so, despite his great reservations about Yasser Arafat, Rabin felt compelled to try to make an agreement with him. |
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| Time of ihram for Hajj: After accomplishing enjoyable omrah till the time of reaching Arafat at the midday of the ninth day of Thee Al-Hijja for remaining there to the sunset of the same day. |
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| We must support the roadmap, Mr Sharon cannot cold-shoulder the Union's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Mr Solana, because he has met President Arafat. |
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| This will give new life to Yasir Arafat and his corrupt people. |
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| We therefore call on Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat to make a start on peace by talking to each other so that people in the region, in the Middle East, can have a future worthy of human beings. |
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| It explained that the samples of polonium-210 were from belongings procured from Suha Arafat –including the Fatah founder's underwear and his trademark keffiyeh – and stained with his blood, sweat, saliva and urine. |
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| The 1993 handshake between Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, was a rare moment of hope in the bitter Middle East conflict. |
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| Before speaking about the meeting for which you are assembled here today, I would like to say a few words about the passing of President Yasser Arafat and UNESCO's action concerning this sad event. |
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| The accuser also mentioned that Arafat had been poisoned with polonium. |
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| No doubt when the ailing tyrant finally passes away many in this House will sing his praises as the historic father of the nation, as they have recently done sycophantically on the death of President Arafat. |
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| The remote possibility of some success at what may be the last chance for peace would be an opportunity that even Arafat could not afford to miss. |
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| After American intervention on his behalf, Mr Arafat and his troupe were allowed to trail out of Lebanon to seek refuge in Tunisia, where they sat disconsolately. |
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| Unofficially, Ariel Sharon is believed to be determined to remove Mr Arafat, and thinks that the Bush administration is now ready to acquiesce. Certainly the Americans are doing little to contradict that assumption. |
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| None has any interest in providing Mr Sharon or America with the quiescence demanded. Scorned as a partner and bereft of a successor, Mr Arafat is desperately seeking ways out. |
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| But Israel's demonisation of Arafat and Sharon's attempts to isolate him both physically and politically, have been utterly short-sighted. |
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| Arafat Hassan Abdel Dayem was severely injured in the second attack, when several flechettes from a tank shell pierced his body. |
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| I believe that President Arafat and the most important people surrounding him are aware that the security forces cannot be dispersed amongst an almost infinite number of people. |
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| I was from the camp that never believed that Arafat was poisoned. |
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| The President of the World Bank and President Arafat opened this meeting. |
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| To Arafat these concerns were intensified when he found that many European and even Arab leaders did not sympathize with his scepticism about the Camp David approach. |
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| Yasser Arafat, for his part, must face up to his responsibilities. He must understand that the policy he has advocated in recent years has brought pain and suffering to his people. |
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| A former bodyguard of Arafat has revealed that the Raïs was afraid of being assassinated by extremists in his own camp if he made too many concessions? |
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| The PLO and Yasser Arafat are said to have suffered a substantial loss of status and credibility with their supporters around the world for backing Iraq. |
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| We can only hope this falls into the hands of Sharon and Arafat and in particular the deadpan but deadly Dubya. |
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| They have lost leggie Piyush Chawla, whose two-match stint was outstanding, but welcome back Yasir Arafat to enhance an already decent bowling attack. |
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