For Arafat, His Life Personified His Dream
501538
For virtually his entire adult life, Yasser Arafat had one dream, and he pursued it with such energy and zeal -- some would say fanaticism -- that he came to personify the dream itself.
391376
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died in Paris last month, had investments worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including a stake in an Egyptian mobile phone company and a piece of a New York bowling alley, according to a news magazine report.
693712
Yasser Arafat&#39;s death opens a rare window of opportunity to build a democratic Palestinian state that could live side by side in peace with Israel.
122148
In death, as in life, Yasser Arafat lit the flames of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and dignity. If he did nothing else - he made certain that the Palestinian struggle for liberty and
398433
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Suha Daoud Tawil Arafat, 41, has been the focus of resentment and controversy among Palestinians for most of the time that she has been married to the founder and chief symbol of the Palestinian national movement.
637843
Ramallah, West Bank - Yasser Arafat, fighting for his life in a Paris hospital, has cheated death on several fronts during a 40-year career as the symbol of the struggle for Palestinian statehood.
234174
Yasir Arafat was both the symbol of the Palestinians&#39; hope for a viable, independent state and the prime obstacle to its realization.
359399
He shook the world by demanding justice for the Palestinians. But Arafat's defiance ruined his chances to win them independence
188659
The BBC's John Simpson assesses the legacy of Yasser Arafat, a man he knew well.
213990
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, reportedly in a coma and lingering between life and death in a French hospital, was on the hearts and minds of several Palestinians as they left the North
337607
The world watches the unfolding drama as the man who has become the symbol for Palestinian nationalism seems to hover between life and death.
151967
While Arafat was seen as the champion of Palestinian nationalism, he also came to represent corruption.
23487
Since the death of the Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, a mood has been spreading in the Middle East that had not been felt for a long time: optimism.
434746
HIS MISSION in life was embodied in a slogan: Death to Israel. Now death has claimed Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian National Authority, founder of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Nobel
769303
French President Jacques Chirac, confirming Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, has hailed the Palestinian leader as a man of courage and conviction who embodied the Palestinian struggle for a state.
625768
Jerusalem - Once famous for being the globetrotting champion of the Palestinian cause, Yasser Arafat spent the past three years cooped up in his shrivelled compound staring down the barrels of Israeli tanks.
368085
It is uncertain just how history ultimately will judge Yasser Arafat, the erratic but charismatic Palestinian leader who died this week in Paris at age 75.