On LI, Arafat leaves a mixed legacy
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As members of Long Island&#39;s tiny Palestinian community absorbed the news of the death of Yasser Arafat Thursday, many spoke reverently of a man who had given the disposessed Palestinian people a voice.
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Yasser Arafat, fighting for his life in a French hospital Thursday, triggered a war of words about his legacy: Palestinians hailed a freedom fighter who saved them from national extinction; Jewish leaders welcomed the imminent death of a terrorist.
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The Palestinians' likely next President hopes to take on the militants--and Arafat's legacy
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YASSER Arafatâs death is a development of monumental dimensions. The void it has left in one of the worldâs most disturbed and disturbing regions would be hard to fill, but filled it has to be.
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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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A Palestinian pollster says Yasser Arafat&#39;s death will not leave a political vacuum because others effectively replaced him years ago.
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Arafat disabled is in some ways a bigger problem than Arafat dead. If he dies, Palestinians must accept it quickly and try to engineer a succession.
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The death of Yasser Arafat brought mixed reactions from Seattle Palestinians last night, with one man comparing it to the loss of a father, and others saying they felt no sadness.
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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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A mysterious ailment has weakened Yasir Arafat and raised concerns that Palestinian politics could be plunged into turmoil.
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Yasser Arafat remained in a critical  condition as uncertainty mounted over who might succeed him and  where he might be buried should he die.
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WASHINGTON -- This is a requiem for Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat, the fallen leader of the benighted but unbowed Palestinian people.
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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.
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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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YASSER Arafat seems to have held off one more challenge to his rule. But his latest victory does not answer the question of what will happen when he finally does leave the political scene.
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Yasser Arafat was as unpredictable in death as he was in life. The longtime leader of the Palestinians lingered for days, with the world unsure of the severity of his medical condition.
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November 12, 2004, 8:27 a.m. The true legacy of Yasser Arafat. For the last week of his life, the scuttlebutt about the Palestinian movement's centrifugal force concerned whether his impending demise was driven ...