For Palestinians, the power of mass non-violence would be undeniable
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Comment is free: Jonathan Freedland: An unarmed resistance modelled on Martin Luther King's civil rights movement could be the way to wake the world
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The power of liberty has been demonstrated again, in the arid valleys of Afghanistan, where millions have defied terrorist threats and turned out in droves for the nation&#39;s first free and fair election.
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IN Israel/Palestine, pessimism is close kin to commonsense: hope, to naivety. No commentator has ever sounded foolish by emphasising the obstacles to peace.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is not the only one who wants his unilateral disengagement plan to succeed. Many on the Palestinian side would like to see it work, certainly
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&quot;I think it&#39;s very important for our friends, the Israelis, to have a peaceful Palestinian state living on their border. And it&#39;s very important for the Palestinian people to have a peaceful
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F inally, the best thing that Yasser Arafat could do for the Palestinians was to die. In the month since the founder of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and head of the Palestinian Authority died in
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Without Yasser Arafat, the individual who has dominated Palestinian politics for the past 36 years, the Middle East may be entering the political equivalent of the &quot;perfect storm.
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A rare optimism is taking hold among Palestinians amid signs of a possible breakthrough in the long-deadlocked Mideast peace process.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Victory by Mahmoud Abbas,  an advocate of non-violence, in Palestinian presidential  elections stirred hopes Monday he could pursue peacemaking  Israel said must start with a crackdown on militants.
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Comment is free: Karen Koning AbuZayd: Palestinian suffering has reached new depths. Peace cannot be built by reducing 1.5m people to a state of abject destitution
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Freed from Yasser Arafat&#39;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 Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not be the only issue on his visit to Israel.
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President Bush has a historic chance for coming up with a new peace plan based on the principles enshrined in the Oslo Accords. It is time also for Palestinians to unite behind a new leadership and stop the
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In a power structure in which influence was measured largely by proximity to the leader, nothing was more threatening to members of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's inner circle than a wife.
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Salam Fayyad, the newly appointed Palestinian prime minister, is widely considered the best hope for persuading the West to lift crippling international sanctions against the Palestinian government.
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While the sentiment from this particular source was not new, it is nonetheless gratifying to hear the candidate favored to win the Palestinian presidency disavow the use of violence against Israel.
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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.