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Home / Society / Issues / Warfare and Conflict / Specific Conflicts / Middle East / Israel-Palestine / Organizations / Palestinian Authority / Arafat, Yasser
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- Arafat - A Local Cop on the Beat - Describing Israel's expectation following the Oslo accords as being that Arafat would sell out his own people, and why Arafat cannot reasonably accept the Camp David offers.
groups.yahoo.com/group/Palestinian_Diary/message/830
- Arafat's False Symmetry - Criticizing Arafat's vision, and his attempt to equate the deaths of Palestinian civilians at the hands of Israel's military with those of Israelis killed in terrorist attacks.
www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-cherry020502.shtml
- Arafat: Flawed symbol of Palestine - Tracing Arafat's history, and the deterioration of his popular support, with the thesis that although a brilliant leader, he is a hopeless as an organizer or negotiator.
news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_87000/87713.stm
- Israel's black propaganda bid falters as documents reveal an impotent leader not a terrorist mastermind - Analyzing Israel's dossier on Arafat, and finding it replete with errors, omissions, and deliberate misinformation, and that in reality the documents reveal Arafat as militarily impotent with a crumbling power base.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=293162
- Let not the land of milk and honey be the land of blood and tears - Examining the goals of the Palestinian people in a peace process with Israel, the desire for a peaceful, democratic state, and detailing Arafat's shortcomings both as a leader and as a peace negotiator.
www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=17561
- Palestine's Pétain? - Describing how cheers at Arafat's release from Israel's siege of his compound turned to jeers for a man who jailed dissenters, ran a corrupt administration, and protected the settlements, and questioning if he can ever be more than a collaborator.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,715732,00.html
- Powell visit leaves Arafat in dilemma - Suggesting that Arafat's deteriorated power base and inability to offer any progress will prevent his being able to negotiate a ceasefire involving militant groups like Hamas, and the position of some that he should defer the policing of the occupied territories to Israel's military.
news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1936000/1936426.stm
- President Yasser Arafat - Biographical overview of the Palestinian leader, with a historical timeline.
www.toptown.com/hp/jaber/Arafat.htm
- The collaborator who failed - A skeptical analysis of Yasser Arafat as having worked in concert with Israel, which ignored his corruption in return for his cooperation and his turning a blind eye toward the settlements, with condemnation coming only after he lost that ability.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=161923
- The Palestinian Vision of Peace - Describing Arafat's vision for two equal states, Israel and Palestine, living peacefully as neighbors. [Free registration required.]
www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/opinion/03ARAF.html
- The Playboy Interview - September 1988: Yasir Arafat - Describing the positions on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians over the occupied territories, as expressed by Arafat in 1988, and how they have been borne out by subsequent history.
www.playboy.com/magazine/historic/arafat
- The usual suspect - Observing, in the context of an attack on Arafat's compound for a terrorist bombing Israel attributes to Syria, that Israel's policy appears to be one of scapegoating, and questioning what might follow Arafat's exile.
news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=174303
- The war that Arafat called forth - Blaming the entire conflict between Israel and the Palestinians on Arafat.
www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020408/usnews/8fouad.htm
- Time for Arafat to Abdicate - Palestine needs new leadership.
www.MediaMonitors.net/khodr4.html
- Yasir Arafat - Palestinian Activist - Brief biographical information.
www.multied.com/bio/people/arafat.html
- Yasser Arafat - Brief Biography from the Jewish Virtual Library.
www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/arafat.html
- Yasser Arafat - Biographical information from the Nobel e-Museum.
www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1994/arafat-bio.html
- Yasser Arafat Bio - Biographical information from ABCNEWS.com.
abcnews.go.com/reference/bios/arafat.html
- Yasser Araftat: Behind the myth - Exploring the Palestinian leader's background, personality, and deep flaws as a leader, and questioning whether chaos would follow if he were deposed.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=309045
- Yassir Arafat - A brief biography and timelinfrom the Encyclopaedia of the Orient.
lexicorient.com/cgi-bin/eo-direct-frame.pl?lexicorient.com/e.o/arafat.htm
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