Palestinians do not need another tyrant
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YASSER Arafat is dead. A so-called moderate is now chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Elections to choose a Palestinian Authority president are scheduled in the West Bank and Gaza for early January.
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Israel says prospects for peace could be boosted by a new Palestinian government without Hamas.
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Freed from Yasser Arafat's one-man rule, Palestinians say they are eager and able to build the first real democracy in the Arab world, despite the dangers lurking on the road to Jan. 9 elections.
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The Palestinian president swears in a new emergency government, excluding the Islamist movement, Hamas.
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The man widely believed to be leading the new Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip said Wednesday that his group wants to maintain calm in the area, but will not be the "protector" of the Israeli border.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Islamic militant groups behind many suicide bombings dismissed yesterday a call from Mahmoud Abbas, the interim Palestinian leader, to halt attacks in the run-up to a Jan. 9 election to replace Yasser Arafat.
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The Palestinian Authority Monday ordered its mass media to stop inciting violence against Israel. Official sources told UPI PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas recently visited PA media
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Palestinians say their own infighting is making it too easy for Israel to argue that nothing needs to be done now to promote a Palestinian state.
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The Palestinians' likely next President hopes to take on the militants--and Arafat's legacy
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Marwan Barghouti's withdrawal leaves Mahmoud Abbas without a serious challenger in the Jan. 9 vote to choose the head of the Palestinian Authority.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told Iranians on Friday that Palestinians would never bow to pressure to recognize Israel and would keep fighting thanks in part to support from Iran.
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HEBRON, West Bank  - Palestinian Akram al-Muhtasib  pays no rent for his domed stone home in Hebron, and his  landlord doesn't think he should have to when his neighbors are  several hundred rightist Jewish settlers.
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Palestinians are electing a successor to their late leader, Yasser Arafat.
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The Palestinian leadership convened yesterday without Yasser Arafat in the chair for the first time in years, making a show of stability while the ailing iconic
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Palestinians say their own infighting is making it too easy for Israel to argue that the time is not right to promote a Palestinian state.
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Israeli cable technician Elram Weitzman thinks the Palestinians deserve a state of their own. But he doesn't spend too much time thinking about it.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the favourite to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian leader, has called on his people to stop fighting Israel. Mr Abbas said Palestinians had a legitimate right &quot;to express their rejection of the occupation by popular and social means&quot;.