Sentence examples for arafat from inspiring English sources

"Arafat," wrote Mr Barak, "has tried for 20 months now to dictate to Israel and the world, using suicide bombing as a diplomatic tool.

And it has taken more than two decades for that initial, grudging acceptance by Israel of the Palestinians' "legitimate rights and just requirements" to evolve into this second Camp David conference, spun by President Bill Clinton this week as potentially the historic end of a 100-year-old conflict.Yasser Arafat was the ghost at President Carter's feast.

Mr Sharon's office has issued a statement repeating that he wants to see seven days without violence before a formal ceasefire can begin.Many Palestinians and foreign observers see that demand as impossible for Mr Arafat to meet, and not only because he presides over an outraged people, where one in three breadwinners is unemployed and one in two Palestinian families is officially impoverished.

The Israelis insist that Mr Zinni has in fact "had it with Arafat"—and so have his superiors.

The wiser ones admit that America's preoccupation with Iraq helped Mr Arafat.

FOR days Yemen has been abuzz with talk of Huda and Arafat.

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.

On a Middle East peace mission last week he reportedly told the Israeli leader Ariel Sharon he was "proud to have been Israel's most decided, sincere and close friend", but defied recent European policy by refusing to meet Yasser Arafat.

Forces have been pulled out of the West Bank towns of Jenin, Hebron and from parts of Ramallah, though they remain in position near the offices there of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader.

Yasser Arafat, the authority's president, denounced the attack as "an awful crime", while his prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, promised to investigate who was behind it.

The raid came just hours after Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA), had announced a new and slimmed-down cabinet, and just hours before that cabinet was due to hold its first meeting in Ramallah.