Middle East Prepares for Life without Arafat
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JERUSALEM â-here has been increased security here in Jerusalem and throughout Israel, but so far, it has been quiet. The entire Middle East is getting ready for a new era, a Middle East without Yasser Arafat.
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LONG before he left for medical treatment in France, Yasser Arafat had all but vanished from the streets of downtown Ramallah in the West Bank.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s disappearance from the scene has raised hopes that perhaps a window of opportunity to a new era has now opened.
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Bulldozers and earthmovers pushed aside rubble and hauled away piles of wrecked cars Wednesday to prepare Yasser Arafat&#39;s battered West Bank compound for his burial.
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The somber official end to mourning for  Yasser Arafat on Tuesday contrasted with a new sense of  optimism in the Middle East after his death.
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The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is deeply dividing an already torn Middle Eastern country. As Palestinians mourn the loss of their leader
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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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President Bush is expected to give an outline of his vision for a Middle East without Yasser Arafat on Friday, with his most loyal ally Tony Blair by his side.
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Palestinian officials pushed forward on Sunday with plans for life without Yasser Arafat, meeting to set a date for elections to replace their longtime leader after his death.
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Yasir Arafat is not brain dead, his spokeswoman said as Palestinian officials met to consider a future without him.
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The epic script of the Middle East conflict could have had Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, kaffiyeh-clad and armed, emerge from his junkyard compound as a born-again peacemaker or guns blazing in martyrdom.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafatâs rule has been a disaster for Palestinians, for Israel, and for US policy in the Middle East. The wily terrorist leader, now believed to be on his deathbed in a French hospital
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An ailing Yasser Arafat - too weak to stand, unable to hold down food and spending most of Thursday sleeping - agreed to leave his battered West Bank compound for the first time in more than two years and fly ...
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Yasser Arafat dominated the politics of the Middle East for four decades, and his death comes at a moment when the way ahead for this most intractable of conflicts has rarely looked so uncertain.
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Palestinian leaders decided in the absence of President Yasser Arafat on Sunday to carry out a plan to restore law and order in the West Bank and Gaza, a government minister said.
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Yasser Arafat will get a military funeral  in Egypt on Friday before burial in the smashed West Bank  compound where he spent his final years besieged by Israeli  troops without realizing his dream of a Palestinian state.
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Egypt was preparing to give Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a full military funeral at a ceremony near his childhood home in Cairo to be attended by scores of foreign leaders but closed to the public.