Arafatâs Demise â a Never-Ending Story
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Wednesday saw another twist in the drawn-out cliffhanger on Yasser Arafatâs demise which started 13 days ago. The senior Palestinian Muslim cleric Sheikh Taissir Tamimi who was dispatched to the Percy hospital
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PALESTINIAN leaders stepping into the power vacuum left by the death of Yasser Arafat face one of the most daunting challenges in their people&#39;s troubled history.
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Although peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians stalled several years ago, todayâs death of longtime Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat marked the end of an era in the Middle East peace process.
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No one knows what ails Yasser Arafat. Rumours are circulating that Israel has poisoned him. The evidence is entirely circumstantial and probably no more than fantasy though, when dealing with Israel, nothing can ever be ruled out.
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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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A reporter once asked Yasser Arafat: ``Sir, you have survived many close brushes with death. What&#39;s your secret?&#39;&#39; The Palestinian leader answered there was no secret, except for his uncanny instinct for sensing imminent danger.
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Yasser Arafat was buried on Friday in chaotic scenes of grief and gunfire at the compound where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army and powerless to realize his dream of a Palestinian state.
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LONDON -- Nearly a week after his death, speculation still swirls around what killed Yasser Arafat. Cirrhosis of the liver, AIDS, a blood disorder, or poisoning are frequently mentioned in unconfirmed reports -- as little is publicly known about the medical condition that landed the Palestinian leader in a French hospital.
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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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No evidence exists that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of poisoning, his nephew says. But at a press conference in Paris, Nasser al-Quidwa did not definitely dismiss
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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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Palestinian politicians Thursday tried to fill the void left by the death of Yasser Arafat, a lone-style leader who put a nationalist movement on the world map but willed to his successors a fragile, stateless people.
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Yasser Arafat has died at the age of 75 after failing to be revived from the coma he slipped into on Wednesday at the French military hospital where he was being treated for an undiagnosed blood and digestive disorder.
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Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and president of the Palestinian Authority, is dead. The Arab world mourned his passing.
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If Yasser Arafat&#39;s death does improve the prospects of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, here&#39;s what the United States should do about it: Nothing.
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For most Israelis, Yasser Arafat's death opens up new hope for an end to the violence.
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Yasser Arafat's dying days have  contained all the ingredients of a Hollywood drama -- tragedy,  suspense, plot twists and even a touch of farce.