With Yasser Arafat\’s burial, he took with him one of the enduring secrets of the Palestinian regime — the whereabouts of a missing fortune in ill-gotten public funds.
Yasser, it\’s not like we hardly knew ye. We knew ye all too well.
I should have known better than to forward an e-mail recommending a boycott of French products for France\’s anti-Israel stance and willingness to tend to Yasser Arafat on his deathbed.
I have a mere two degrees of separation from Yasser Arafat. Down the street from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is a little hair salon where I get my hair cut.
Israeli officials are quietly confident that if Yasser Arafat\’s health forces him to leave office, new chances for Israeli-Palestinian accommodation will open up.
When Israeli authorities chose to put Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti on trial in a criminal court, rather than a military court, prosecutors may have set the stage for an even bigger prize: Yasser Arafat.
That possibility was given a boost last week with Barghouti\’s conviction on five counts of murder for Israelis killed in three separate shooting ambushes conducted by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in 2001 and 2002.
As part of the war on terror, it\’s time for the United States to move its embassy to Jerusalem and effectively end the dispute over Israel\’s capital. More than three years ago, Yasser Arafat branded the Palestinian Authority\’s terror campaign against Israel the "Al Aqsa Intifada."
A Syrian-led draft resolution condemning Israel is not getting support at the U.N. Security Council. Syria has been unable to convince Security Council members to vote on the resolution.
In September 1982, an Israeli sniper in Beirut had Yasser Arafat\’s head in his gunsights, and he waited for an order from Ariel Sharon, who in turn was awaiting word from Jerusalem: Kill him or set him free?
Sharon, then defense minister, soon got the order from Prime Minister Menachem Begin: Let Arafat board the boat evacuating the PLO leadership from Beirut.
More than 20 years later, Arafat is once again in Israeli sights, only this time Sharon is in Jerusalem calling the shots.
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