Arafatâs poor health raises question of leadership succession
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As the Palestinian president remains critically ill at his West Bank home, the Palestinians are afraid that his poor health could result in a political vacuum, should he be incapacitated.
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Yasser Arafat was in a critical but  stable condition on Friday as a row brewed over where he would  be buried and questions loomed about who might succeed him.
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By the News-Register. Clearly, the Palestinian people need to select a new leader, replacing Yasser Arafat. In doing so they have an opportunity to achieve something that Arafat himself has blocked for many years - peace with Israel.
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TEL AVIV, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Authority leader, is badly ill in a French hospital. Debates where to bury him are already raging in the Israeli political community, meanwhile.
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The rapid decline of the 75-year-old Palestinian leader's health, the refusal of his wife and authorities at the French military hospital where he died last Thursday to release his medical records and Israel's threat a year ago to "remove" him have spawned a cottage industry of speculation among Palestinians.
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Yasser Arafat was as unpredictable in death as he was in life. The longtime leader of the Palestinians lingered for days, with the world unsure of the severity of his medical condition.
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Leaders around the world express concern for the health of ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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The deteriorating health of Yasser Arafat, long the personification of the Palestinian struggle for statehood, could reorder the political landscape of the Middle East in two
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The parliament speaker would replace Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority president for 60 days, until elections. But he is unlikely to hold onto that position during a turbulent transition; timely elections also seem unlikely.
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The sudden deterioration in the health of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat reminded the world that he has his place in history in spite of the many attempts by Israel - and especially by
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died on November 11, has left the Middle East a more brutal, nasty, and toxic place. Arafat&#39;s disastrous leadership exploded the once promising Arab-Israeli
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Yasser Arafat is hovering âbetween life and deathâ in a coma, Palestinian and French officials say. There was still no official public diagnosis yesterday to explain the Palestinian leaderâs critical condition.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President  Yasser Arafat's health worsened sharply on Wednesday and an  ambulance rushed to his beleaguered West Bank headquarters,  officials, medics and witnesses said.
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In a recent interview with foreign reporters, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat was asked who would succeed him in the case of his demise.
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TEL AVIV -- As Yasser Arafat's condition deteriorated in a hospital outside Paris yesterday, an explosive political crisis was brewing in Israel and the occupied territories over where the man who personifies the Palestinian national movement eventually would be buried.
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The serious deterioration in the health of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority, has brought to the attention of the world something consciously concealed by the western
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Yasser Arafat remained in a critical  condition as uncertainty mounted over who might succeed him and  where he might be buried should he die.