Media glare and melodrama mark Arafat&#39;s stay
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At Yasser Arafat&#39;s Paris hospital, confusion reigned as his wife, aides, and others wrangled over his state of health. By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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RAMALLAH, West BankâA dying Yasser Arafat is in the midst of a last historic battle with Israel, one he is not even well enough to know he&#39;s waging.
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Without Yasser Arafat, the individual who has dominated Palestinian politics for the past 36 years, the Middle East may be entering the political equivalent of the &quot;perfect storm.
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Since Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, international attention has turned away from Iraq to the other, older, most imperishable of Middle East crises.
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Palestinian papers mark the 40th day since the death of Yasser Arafat with praise for his vision of the Palestinians&#39; future, and sadness at the &quot;vacuum&quot; his death has left.
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For the moment all parties are very much concerned about the changes of Arafat&#39;s illness and are now getting prepared for the affairs of the post-Arafat times.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s health appears to have suddenly deteriorated, and a team of doctors has rushed to the Palestinian president&#39;s bedside.
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TONY EASTLEY: Since the death last month of Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat there&#39;s been a relative lull in violence against Israeli forces in the occupied territories.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct. 28 -- No crowds of well-wishers massed Thursday outside the Mukata, the mostly ruined compound where Yasser Arafat has been confined for the past two years. Only a throng of reporters assembled, peering through the smoked windows of sedans carrying officials to a frail old man who still embodies the national aspirations of many Palestinians.
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It&#39;s been almost a week since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died. With constant conflict in the Middle East , some wonder if Arafat&#39;s death will bring about peace in his former home.
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There are reports from the Palestinian territories that the health of leader Yasser Arafat is deteriorating. There has been concern in recent weeks about the Palestinian Authority head&#39;s health was worsening
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At the moment Yasser Arafat&#39;s body was lowered into his tomb in Ramallah on the West Bank, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip vented their sorrow with shouts of grief and bursts of gunfire.
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A diplomatic row is brewing over where the Palestinian leader will be laid to rest, should he lose his battle for life. Mr Arafat has expressed his wish to be laid to rest in Jerusalem, in the shadow of the
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The mass outpouring of grief at Yasser Arafatâs burial Friday was a powerful assertion of continued Palestinian defiance in the face of Israelâs brutal military occupation.
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Ramallah, West Bank -- Apprehension settled over the Middle East Thursday night as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat lay near death in a Paris hospital, and Israelis and Palestinians braced themselves for a new era in the region&#39;s long and turbulent history
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For all the questions raised by last weekâs death of Yasser Arafat, one thing is certain: The debate over his legacy is likely to be as polarizing as the conflict that consumed his life.
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PALESTINIANS at home and abroad wept, waved flags, and burned tyres in an eruption of grief over the death of Yasser Arafat, the man they consider the father of their nation.