Arafat&#39;s death seen breaking Mideast diplomatic logjam
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Foreign policy chiefs from around the globe have been lining up to visit Israeli and Palestinian officials, proclaiming a new era of opportunity has arrived.
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Arafat&#39;s death raises hopes for a new push for peace. But much depends on who takes charge and how the US responds. Just a few months after Israeli and Palestinian leaders signed the Oslo peace accord in 1993
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Colin Powell, the departing US Secretary of State, flies into Israel tonight to open a week of diplomacy aimed at helping to revive the Middle East peace process after Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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Description: Despite recent violence, there have been increasingly positive signs in the Middle East over the last few weeks. The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the withdrawal of Israeli settlers may be thawing the hardened conflict.
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A mysterious ailment has weakened Yasir Arafat and raised concerns that Palestinian politics could be plunged into turmoil.
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The death or long-term incapacitation of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be a turning point in Middle East history. It could suddenly remove an obstacle to peace or unleash a bloody power struggle among Palestinians factions.
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Late Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and United Nations Mideast envoy Terje Roed-Larsen are seen during their meeting at Arafat&#39;s office in the West Bank city of Ramallah in this Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001 file photo.
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ANALYSIS:The death of Yasser Arafat will pose a challenge, but could result in a more legitimate government. BY STEVEN ERLANGER. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Yasser Arafat was both the symbol of the Palestinians&#39; hope
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For all the questions raised by last weekâs death of Yasser Arafat, one thing is certain: The debate over his legacy is likely to be as polarizing as the conflict that consumed his life.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s death opens a rare window of opportunity to build a democratic Palestinian state that could live side by side in peace with Israel.
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RAMALLAH, West BankâA dying Yasser Arafat is in the midst of a last historic battle with Israel, one he is not even well enough to know he&#39;s waging.
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Sponsors of an internationally backed Mideast peace plan will send their foreign ministers to the region next week in hopes of restarting Israeli-Palestinian talks in the wake of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s increasingly imminent passing from the scene points to the end of a long and complex era that is best left for historians to assess.
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The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is deeply dividing an already torn Middle Eastern country. As Palestinians mourn the loss of their leader
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Is there hope in the Middle East in the aftermath of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, or will the optimistic noises now being made fizzle out into the usual confrontation?
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Yasser Arafat's latest health crisis &#151; a severe flu, gallstones, a battery of cancer tests &#151; has exposed how unprepared the Palestinians are for their leader's death, making a chaotic transition period all but inevitable.
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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.