Palestinians face a tough choice
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CANBERRA The Palestinian presidential poll to replace Yasser Arafat, scheduled for Jan. 9, has been thrown wide open by the entry of the jailed Palestinian activist Marwan Barghouti into the race and by Hamas&#39;s boycott.
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Mahmoud Abbasâs declaration was both a challenge to the Hamas movement and a risky effort to break a political stalemate that could backfire.
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The planned transfer of Jericho from Israeli to Palestinian control is held up by disagreements.
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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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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Senior Palestinian officials struggled yesterday to stabilize the financial operations of the Palestinian Authority, as Yasser Arafat lingered at what an envoy termed a &quot;critical juncture between life and death.&quot;
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JERUSALEM -- Since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, Israel has faced an increasingly complex set of military options to stop attacks from the territory, and a debate over its humanitarian responsibilities for the strip's 1.4 million people.
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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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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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Palestinians are moving toward a new generation of leadership, while US and Israeli leaders consider their legacies.
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He may yet drop out, but an imprisoned militant's challenge highlights the political shackles on the U.S.-favored Mahmoud Abbas
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JERICHO, West Bank -- Israeli and Palestinian officials yesterday were on the verge of resolving what could have been a nasty dispute over voting by East Jerusalem residents in elections to choose a replacement for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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Palestinians expressed sorrow and anxious at the thought of a future without Yasser Arafat, wondering if his departure would bring a bloody power struggle, a rise of militancy or peace talks with Israel.
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Senior Palestinian officials aspiring to succeed Yasser Arafat might have thought that their main obstacle would be Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon or his closest ally, the United States.
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The devil dancing in the Middle East is dead. After Arafat used his life to deny Palestinians a national state, Palestinians will now have the chance to use Arafat&#39;s death to usher in a new era of compromise.
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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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Existence of the Palestinian Naval Police represents the struggle over PA security forces.
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The hunger strike by thousands of security prisoners (called &quot;prisoners of war&quot; by the Palestinians) could become a difficult, complex affair.