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...A bee for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. And a missile-like arrow for Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov. The brooches worn by Madeleine Albright have become legendary for their political panache....
...Arafat shook hands on the South Lawn of the White House....
...As a young man three decades ago he was swept up in the giddy optimism as huge crowds packed into Gaza City to welcome the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat back from exile....
...Yasser Arafat dubbed him Abu Kharita, “father of the map”. Tirza suspected Arafat really meant Abu Kharta — “father of bullshit”....
...Arafat, to Lebanese composer and intellectual Ziad Rahbani and US diplomat and former senator John Kerry....
...Al-Azhar, which al-Ostaz attended, was opened in 1991 by Yasser Arafat, and is considered one of Gaza’s more liberal universities for its curriculum and co-ed classes....
...After the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993, marking the beginning of a process that could have led to a two-state solution, Bill Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat spoke of a “peace of the brave”,...
...The diplomats around me gasped as Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, chair of the PLO, shook hands. We all got to our feet and applauded....
...Abbas has been the key Palestinian interlocutor for the international community since succeeding the late Yasser Arafat in 2004....
...Sensing the way things were going, PLO leader Yasser Arafat agreed to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist....
...Arafat....
...People like Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat. The Russians. So I think there is a bit of a balancing act going on. But in terms of what matters, which is materialistic support, that has not materialised....
...(Yasser Arafat’s security team are avid fans of US sitcom The Golden Girls)....
...Arafat, unlikely kingmakers....
...Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister who had signed the accords with Yasser Arafat, was assassinated in 1995 for his brave move towards peace....
...The event, attended by Yasser Arafat, coincided with the end of an Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon following a UN-brokered truce....
...Muscat has previously hosted Israeli prime ministers in the wake of the Oslo Accords signed by Yitzak Rabin and Yasser Arafat....
...One former hotel employee describes the jeopardy of having Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat, then Israeli prime minister and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization respectively, staying under the...
...Yasser Arafat’s, perhaps. Or Ehud Barak. Both, it transpires. “I love the parties I have done.” She jumps up. “This is an example,” she says, fetching a silver-framed photo....
...In the aftermath of the Gulf war, Palestinians were pressed into an exodus from Kuwait because of their leader Yasser Arafat’s support for Iraq’s invasion....
...Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation....
...All are used to make enthralling a blend of archive footage — Indira Gandhi, Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat — family history, architectural excavation and lively interviews....
...“It’s become a joke between us.” 1994, Gaza, Palestine Joins Yasser Arafat on his return to Palestine....
...“Any second now we could see the beginning of a third intifada,” he says solemnly, sitting between two portraits — one of Yasser Arafat in military garb, the other of his more moderate successor, Mahmoud...
...Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres — peace Awarded jointly for “efforts to create peace in the Middle East” after signing the Oslo accords, aimed at reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians....
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