The Arafat legacy resonates in Palestinian campaign
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Seven candidates running for Palestinian president, led by front-runner Mahmoud Abbas, kicked off a 15-day electoral campaign yesterday, with most seeking to capitalize in some fashion on the memory of Yasser Arafat.
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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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Yasser Arafat may be dead -- but his image and his spirit hovered over the fight to succeed him, as seven candidates launched campaigns on Saturday playing up their links with the late Palestinian president.
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WEST BANK (BBC) - Yasser Arafat led Palestinian politics for more than 40 years. World leaders have been sending their condolences following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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The wailing that attended Yasser Arafat&#39;s burial in the West Bank on Friday was as much for the Palestinians&#39; future as the passing of the man.
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The Palestinian struggle for freedom and independence is larger than the late President Yasser Arafat. The decades-long symbolism that Arafat embodied should not be underestimated.
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There will be many tributes that focus on the accomplishments of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died Wednesday, but he is responsible for the deaths of thousands
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Our position is: Yasser Arafat was a pioneer of terrorism whose legacy is an unstable and dangerous Middle East. Yasser Arafat, who died Wednesday in a hospital near Paris at age 75, was for decades an instigator and innovator of terrorism.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Anyone who didn&#39;t know better might have thought that Yasser Arafat was alive and well and running for Palestinian Authority president.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s death opens a window of opportunity. The Palestinian leader who loomed so large for so many years - and who had recently been rejected as a partner by Israel
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians vote on Sunday  for a successor to Yasser Arafat widely expected to be Mahmoud  Abbas, a pragmatist they hope will revive a peace process with  Israel after years of bloodshed.
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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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The passing of Yasser Arafat marked the end of an era. The question is, what new era will now unfold? Elections for a new President of the Palestinian Authority will be held on Jan 9. Even then, it is still
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To Palestinians, Yasser Arafat was &quot;Mr Palestine&quot;, a historical figure who embodied the Palestinian nationalist movement.
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Mahmoud Abbas praised Yasir Arafat's legacy today in a speech marking the end of the 40-day mourning period for the former leader.
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JERICHO, West Bank A Palestinian leader who is campaigning to take the place of the late Yasser Arafat is pledging to follow in the footsteps of the longtime leader.
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The BBC's John Simpson assesses the legacy of Yasser Arafat, a man he knew well.