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Biography with links to related material and news stories.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/mideast/stories/arafat.profile/index.html
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Office of the President
Speeches, statements and letters by Yasser Arafat, articles and a brief biography.
http://www.p-p-o.com/
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PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's First Appearance at the United Nations
Donald Neff covers Arafat's first appearance at the United Nations. Includes recommended reading
list. From the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1194/9411070.htm
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Ex-aide condemns Arafat's handling of intifada
Summaryzing former security advisor, Muhammad Dahlan's, criticisms of Arafat for failing to grasp
the chance to establish even an inadequate independent Palestinian state, and for the attacks on
Israeli civilians.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,815101,00.html
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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.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Palestinian_Diary/message/830
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The war that Arafat called forth
Blaming the entire conflict between Israel and the Palestinians on Arafat.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020408/usnews/8fouad.htm
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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.
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=17561
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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.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=309045
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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.
http://news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=174303
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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.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,715732,00.html
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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.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=161923
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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.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=293162
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The Palestinian Vision of Peace
Describing Arafat's vision for two equal states, Israel and Palestine, living peacefully as
neighbors. [Free registration required.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/opinion/03ARAF.html
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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.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-cherry020502.shtml
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Yassir Arafat
A brief biography and timelinfrom the Encyclopaedia of the Orient.
http://lexicorient.com/cgi-bin/eo-direct-frame.pl?http://lexicorient.com/e.o/arafat.htm
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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.
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1936000/1936426.stm
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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.
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_87000/87713.stm
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Yasser Arafat
Biographical information from the Nobel e-Museum.
http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1994/arafat-bio.html
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Yasser Arafat Bio
Biographical information from ABCNEWS.com.
http://abcnews.go.com/reference/bios/arafat.html
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Yasser Arafat
Brief Biography from the Jewish Virtual Library.
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/arafat.html
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Yasir Arafat - Palestinian Activist
Brief biographical information.
http://www.multied.com/bio/people/arafat.html
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Time for Arafat to Abdicate
Palestine needs new leadership.
http://www.MediaMonitors.net/khodr4.html
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