Old soldier Arafat is just fading away
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The first thing one notices about Yasser Arafat is not his chequered headscarf, folded in the shape of the map of Palestine; not his surprisingly short stature; not even his trembling lips or pale hands.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Confined to his crumbling  headquarters, battered by internal unrest and frozen out of  Middle East diplomacy, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat now  appears to be facing a new problem -- declining health.
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The condition of Yasser Arafat, in a French hospital for treatment of an unidentified ailment, has deteriorated significantly over the past day, Palestinian officials said early Thursday.
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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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Yasser Arafat, revered as the champion of Palestinian statehood and reviled as a terrorist, died Thursday at the age of 75, spreading spasms of grief among Palestinians and rekindling calls for new peace talks with Israel.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leader Yasser  Arafat is "very, very sick" and the ex-guerrilla who for  decades symbolized a struggle for statehood is slipping in and  out of consciousness, officials and medics said on Thursday.
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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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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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For those who remember Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat primarily as a merciless terrorist leader who encouraged violent attacks against Israel, his death at age 75 will prompt no tears -- and may inspire a few cheers.
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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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Palestinians looked to their leadership  to lift confusion over Yasser Arafat's fate in a French  hospital on Wednesday as preparations gathered pace to bury the  icon of their fight for statehood. Arafat, 75, suffered a brain  hemorrhage on Tuesday at the hospital where he was flown from  the West Bank on Oct. 29 and had lain in a coma. Officials  insisted in public that he was alive, though aides said  privately that he was dead.
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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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A day after Yasser Arafat was buried, Palestinians began taking stock of a future without the man who led their fight for independence, while Europe and the US look at ways to revive the stalled peace process.
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PARIS -- Yasser Arafat&#39;s coma deepened and his condition deteriorated dramatically yesterday according to the Palestinian leadership, who visited him at a Paris hospital and then returned to the West Bank to declare that his life was now &#39;&#39;in the hand of
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records would be given to Nasser al-Kidwa, Arafat&#39;s nephew and the Palestinian representative at the United Nations. The 75-year-old Palestinian leader died of an undisclosed illness at a French hospital on November 11.
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FOR ALMOST a half century, the name Yasser Arafat was synonymous with Palestinian nationalism. Even as his global influence wanes, and his physical health deteriorates, Arafat provides a reed of continuity
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Once again, hope flickers in the Middle East. There are encouraging signs that the death of Yasser Arafat is breathing life into hopes of reviving the peace process that Arafat had abandoned.