| January 9, 2005 | -
Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority. He dedicated his victory to "the soul of the brother martyr Yasir Arafat and to our people."
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New York Times
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| December 16, 2004 | - and Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom called Yasir Arafat's death "an opportunity we should not miss,"
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Haaretz International
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| December 12, 2004 | - Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian leader who had vowed to campaign from prison to succeed Yasir Arafat in the January election, withdrew his candidacy and endorsed Mahmoud Abbas, now the clear frontrunner in the race who last week apologized to Kuwait for Palestinian support of the 1990 invasion by Saddam Hussein.
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BBC
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| November 13, 2004 | -
Arafat's funeral, attended by tens of thousands, was marked by two hours of honorary gunfire.
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Jerusalem Post
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| November 11, 2004 | - Nobel Prize winner Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat Al-Qudwa, better known as Yasir Arafat, died of unknown causes at a French military hospital. He was 75.
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AP
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| November 8, 2004 | - Samples of Arafat's blood were sent to the United States and Germany to test for poison.
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Jerusalem Post
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| November 6, 2004 | -
Yasir Arafat was dying, apparently of liver failure, and Israeli politicians said that he would never be buried in Jerusalem; they suggested an overgrown cemetery in Khan Yunis that smells of dead fish.
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New York Times
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| July 17, 2004 | -
Yasir Arafat rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, and the Palestinian National Security Council declared a state of emergency after militants seized several security officials and four French charity workers.
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Associated Press
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| April 6, 2004 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel let it be known that he will no longer be held to his promise not to kill Yasir Arafat.
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Associated Press
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| February 2, 2004 | -
Yasir Arafat expressed disbelief at Ariel Sharon's plan to remove 17 settlements from Gaza, right-wing politicians were outraged, and one political ally suggested that the prime minister was merely trying to distract attention from corruption scandals that could result in his indictment.
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Guardian, Ha'aretz
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| October 13, 2003 | - Ahmed Qurei, the new Palestinian prime minister, threatened to resign after Yasir Arafat refused to give him control over the Palestinian security forces.
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New York Times
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| September 22, 2003 | - The International Monetary Fund accused Arafat of moving about $900 million into a bank account under his personal control.
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New York Times
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| September 19, 2003 | -
President Bush admitted that his "road map" to peace in the Middle East wasn't working very well and blamed it all on Yasir Arafat.
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New York Times
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| September 17, 2003 | - The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding that Israel refrain from deporting Yasir Arafat.
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Los Angeles Times
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| September 15, 2003 | - Ehud Olmert, the Israeli vice prime minister, said that assassinating
Arafat was under consideration.
"In my eyes, from a moral point of view, this is no different than the eliminations of others who were involved in activating acts of terror."
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New York Times
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| September 12, 2003 | -
Israel's security cabinet officially decided to "remove" Yasir Arafat.
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New York Times
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| August 28, 2003 | -
Yasir Arafat asked Palestinian
terrorists to please stop killing Israelis.
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New York Times
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| August 3, 2003 | -
Yasir Arafat tried to jail twenty Palestinian militants, but they refused to go.
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New York Times
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| June 29, 2003 | -
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade agreed to a temporary cease-fire,
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New York Times
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| May 1, 2003 | - The United States, the
United Nations,
Russia, and the European Union, acting collectively as "the Quartet," presented Israel and Palestine with the famous "road map" to peace that President Bush promised to reveal once the Palestinians acquired a prime minister independent of Yasir Arafat.
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| February 18, 2003 | -
Israel sealed off the entire West Bank and Gaza, and Yasir Arafat agreed to appoint a prime minister.
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| February 4, 2003 | -
Israeli voters reelected Ariel Sharon by a large margin; Yasir Arafat offered to hold peace talks immediately but was ignored.
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| January 14, 2003 | -
Yasir Arafat was walking in circles around his desk in Ramallah.
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| December 31, 2002 | -
The Israeli army briefly withdrew from Bethlehem but ordered Yasir Arafat to stay away from Christmas services at the Church of the Nativity.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
Yasir Arafat denounced Osama bin Laden and told him to stop using Palestine to justify terrorism.
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| October 1, 2002 | -
The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution demanding that Israel lift its siege of Yasir Arafat's compound in the West Bank; the United States, irritated at Israel's bad timing, abstained from the vote and let it pass.
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| September 24, 2002 | -
Israeli soldiers destroyed all but one building in Yasir Arafat's compound in the West Bank and put up a barbed-wire fence around the ruins; Arafat refused to leave his building even after the Israelis cut off his water and removed his air conditioners.
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| September 17, 2002 | -
In fact, I have never known that I was right on anything.” Yasir Arafat was forced by the Palestinian Legislative Council to fire his entire cabinet.
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| July 2, 2002 | -
President George W. Bush said that he would not support the creation of a Palestinian state until the Palestinian people get rid of Yasir Arafat.
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| June 11, 2002 | -
A Palestinian suicide bomber attacked a bus in northern Israel and killed 17 people, including 13 soldiers; in retaliation, Israeli forces attacked Yasir Arafat's headquarters, and a tank fired a shell through his bathroom wall.
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| May 7, 2002 | -
Yasir Arafat was released from his confinement in Ramallah, and the Israeli government continued its campaign to discredit him.
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| April 16, 2002 | -
Colin Powell met with Yasir Arafat.
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| April 2, 2002 | -
The Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Ramallah and laid siege to Yasir Arafat's headquarters.
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| March 19, 2002 | -
In the meantime, a special envoy was sent to Israel to make peace between Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat after a week of suicide bombings and other violence in which scores were killed, including a Palestinian woman and her four children when a bomb exploded near their donkey cart.
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| February 5, 2002 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon said he wished he had “liquidated” Yasir Arafat in the 1980s when he had the chance. A state department official said “remarks like these can be unhelpful.”
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| December 25, 2001 | -
Israeli officials decided not to let Yasir Arafat attend Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem.
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| December 4, 2001 | -
Yasir Arafat declared a state of emergency and arrested 110 suspected Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants.
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| November 6, 2001 | -
Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres shook hands with Yasir Arafat, as did the Rev. Al Sharpton.
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| October 23, 2001 | - “Arafat has seven days to impose absolute quiet in the territories,” Sharon declared. “If not, we will go to war against him.”
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| September 25, 2001 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon vetoed talks with Yasir Arafat for the usual reasons.
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| September 18, 2001 | - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Colin Powell that Yasir Arafat was “our bin Laden.”
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| July 3, 2001 | - Secretary of State Colin Powell stood next to Yasir Arafat and endorsed the idea of international observers to help enforce a cease-fire with Israel; later, standing next to Ariel Sharon, Powell clarified his previous statement, which had seemed clear enough, and said he did not support “some outside group of forces coming in.” Powell's trip also included a visit to Jordan, where King Abdullah let him drive at the “king's speed limit” in his custom silver BMW convertible.
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| May 22, 2001 | - Some New York politicians, including the governor, demanded that a wax likeness of Yasir Arafat be removed from Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was angry about a fact-finding mission led by former senator George Mitchell; he said that allowing such an investigation into the causes of the recent Intifada was an “historic mistake” because “no one has the right, no one, to put Israel on trial before the world.” A Palestinian
sniper shot and killed a ten-month-old Israeli girl in Hebron as she lay in her stroller; Israeli troops then shelled a nearby Palestinian neighborhood and other targets, including Yasir Arafat's home.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Yasir Arafat ordered Palestinian
policemen to stop firing at Israel's occupying soldiers; no one paid much attention, and the shooting continued as before.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, asked the United Nations Security Council to send a multinational peacekeeping force to the Occupied Territories.
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| October 10, 2000 | -
Hillary Clinton, alarmed by the violence in Palestine, decided that she had made a mistake after all when she attended a ceremony on the West Bank with Yasir Arafat's wife, Suha, and embraced her; Mrs.
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| July 25, 2000 | -
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat failed to meet President Bill Clinton's deadline for making peace in the Middle East; Clinton declared the summit over and flew to Okinawa for a meeting of the G8, the world's seven richest industrialized countries plus Russia, where the leaders issued a strongly worded statement decrying the alarming lack of Internet access in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.
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| July 25, 2000 | - They pledged to form a “dot force” to combat this “digital divide.” Barak and Arafat remained at Camp David, chaperoned by Madeleine Albright, who received an encouraging note from the G8 leaders, each of whom scrawled his best wishes below a Japanese newspaper photograph of a grim Secretary of State and her two intransigent charges.
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