Arafat's navy without a sea
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Existence of the Palestinian Naval Police represents the struggle over PA security forces.
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A French airforce plane carrying Yasser Arafat landed at a military airport outside Paris, and officials said the ailing Palestinian leader would likely be transferred by helicopter to a nearby military hospital for medical treatment.
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Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was en route by plane to a French military hospital outside Paris for urgent medical treatment of what is said to be a potentially fatal blood disorder.
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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&#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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President Arafat is History. And I do not mean that he belongs to the past because he has died. Quite the contrary: his tireless efforts over so many years, since 1949, when he founded
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A French military jet carrying an ailing Yasser Arafat landed Friday at an airfield outside Paris, bringing the Palestinian leader for treatment of a mysterious illness.
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Kings, presidents and dignitaries from  more than 50 countries said a last farewell to Palestinian  leader Yasser Arafat in Cairo on Friday but the public was  excluded from the military funeral.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The air above the Gaza Strip was humid and motionless Saturday, free of the throat-burning black smoke from flaming tires that mourners had lit in sadness and anger at the death this week of Yasser Arafat.
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After the emotional fury of Yasser Arafat&#39;s funeral quiet has descended on the occupied territories as Palestinians step cautiously into an uncharted future.
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As Yasser Arafat clung to life in a French hospital Friday, local Palestinian-American and Jewish leaders considered what the prospects for peace in the Middle East will be like without him as leader of the Palestinian Authority.
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Chicago Tribune - On an August day in 1982, Yasser Arafat faced one of his bleakest moments. His guerrilla fighters defeated, his commanders in despair, Arafat gathered his nationalist forces at a port in the war-torn city of Beirut.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat does not have leukaemia, a Palestinian official announced in an official medical report here on Tuesday.
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On his deathbed in a French military hospital, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains at the center of controversy -- this time, over the future of the volatile Middle East without this larger-than-life leader.
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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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PARIS, Nov 2  - The first official medical report on the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has confirmed that he does not have leukaemia, the Palestinian representative in France Leila Shahid said Tuesday.
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Palestinian officials are denying Israeli reports Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat needed to be airlifted to Cairo to undergo surgery.