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Topic: Yasser Arafat

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January 15, 2013
6:38 pm

Yasser Arafat is cheered on by supporters as he visits the West Bank city of Hebron, January 19, 1997 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Who killed Arafat? Possibly his closest colleagues

‘The Murder of Yasser Arafat’ offers a new perspective on the last days of a ruthless leader and his broken society

By Elhanan Miller

January 13, 2013
4:14 pm

This picture released by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) shows French fighter pilots walking toward their Mirage 2000 D, at Kossei camp in N'Djamena, Chad, Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo/ R.Nicolas-Nelson, Ecpad)

‘Syrians want blankets, not missiles’

French fatalities in Africa lead the news in Arab media Sunday

By Elhanan Miller

January 9, 2013
6:45 pm

President Shimon Peres in 2009. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Shimon Peres on Obama, Iran and the path to peace

From the web The president speaks frankly about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a New York Times interview

December 31, 2012
8:39 pm

Eitan Haber next to a photograph of his former boss, prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (photo credit: CC-BY-SA, Shalom Bartal, Wikimedia Commons)

Rabin formally opposed a Palestinian state more than a year after White House handshake, letter from 1994 shows

Asked what prime minister really intended, top aide Haber gives mixed response, says bitterly, ‘Perhaps you should ask the assassin’

By Raphael Ahren

December 13, 2012
10:42 pm

Former senator Chuck Hagel (left) shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta in May 2012. (photo credit: CC BY Glenn Fawcett, DoD, Flickr)

In move likely to raise pro-Israel hackles, Obama reportedly set to nominate Hagel as defense chief

President reportedly met to discuss position with ex-Republican congressman, who has been critical of Jerusalem

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 3, 2012
2:15 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet in Jerusalem in 2010 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Clinton raps Palestinians, Israelis for letting peace slip away

Palestinians have missed multiple opportunities, but Israelis should show more empathy, says outgoing secretary of state

By Ron Kampeas

December 2, 2012
4:35 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas waves to thousands of Palestinian supporters in Ramallah upon his return from the UN on Sunday, Dec. 2 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

‘We now have a state, Abbas declares, returning triumphant to Ramallah

President tells crowd of thousands ‘We won’ and dedicates victory to Arafat and martyrs

By Asher Zeiger and AP

December 2, 2012
8:41 am

Mahmoud Abbas speaking in Ramallah Sunday. (photo credit: Screenshot/Palestine TV)

Victorious Mahmoud Abbas feted by thousands in Ramallah

PA chief says no plans to turn to The Hague in a case against Israel, unless ‘the Palestinian people are attacked’

By Gabe Fisher

November 30, 2012
3:31 pm

Crowds in Ramallah watch the speech of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN, November 29, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

In Ramallah, UN vote brings little jubilation

‘We don’t want ’67,’ says a young university graduate. ‘We want all of Palestine’

By Elhanan Miller

November 28, 2012
8:31 pm

The Palestinians deserve better

The UN statehood bid signals an escalation in the strategy of ‘lawfare’ against Israel

By Tomas Sandell

November 28, 2012
1:28 am

The Ramallah mausoleum where former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is buried (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Future Palestinian state to try Israel at ICC for Arafat killing, official says

Head of panel probing leader’s death says ‘those whose policy is assassinations’ will be brought to justice

By Ilan Ben Zion

November 27, 2012
4:26 pm

Blue tarp covers the entrance to Yasser Arafat's mausoleum in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The remains of the late Palestinian leader were exhumed from his grave on Tuesday so international forensic experts could search for additional clues to his death (photo credit: AP/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Results on possible Arafat poisoning expected in three months, Palestinian doctor says

Former PA president’s body exhumed, re-buried in Ramallah military ceremony

By Mohammed Daraghmeh and Times of Israel staff

November 27, 2012
7:57 am

Journalists stand outside late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's tarp-covered Mausoleum in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Saturday, Nov 24 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Arafat’s body exhumed, bone samples to be tested for radiation poisoning

Team of experts from Russia, France and Switzerland taking part in procedure; body to be re-buried in a military ceremony

By Times of Israel staff and AP

November 24, 2012
2:59 pm

Minister of Environmental Protection Gilad Erdan (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90/File)

Environmental protection minister calls Abbas a Hamas operative in disguise

‘At least Arafat wore a uniform, not a suit,’ says Gilad Erdan

By Yoel Goldman

November 24, 2012
1:19 pm

Yasser Arafat, seen here in September, 2003. At the time Arafat was the head of the Palestinian Authority. (photo credit: Flash90)

Experts to exhume Arafat’s body on Tuesday for testing

Investigators searching for traces of poison; former Palestinian leader to be reburied within hours

By AP and Times of Israel staff

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Yasser Arafat

Who killed Arafat? Possibly his closest colleagues

‘The Murder of Yasser Arafat’ offers a new perspective on the last days of a ruthless leader and his broken society

‘Syrians want blankets, not missiles’

French fatalities in Africa lead the news in Arab media Sunday

Shimon Peres on Obama, Iran and the path to peace

From the web The president speaks frankly about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a New York Times interview

Rabin formally opposed a Palestinian state more than a year after White House handshake, letter from 1994 shows

Asked what prime minister really intended, top aide Haber gives mixed response, says bitterly, ‘Perhaps you should ask the assassin’

In move likely to raise pro-Israel hackles, Obama reportedly set to nominate Hagel as defense chief

President reportedly met to discuss position with ex-Republican congressman, who has been critical of Jerusalem

Clinton raps Palestinians, Israelis for letting peace slip away

Palestinians have missed multiple opportunities, but Israelis should show more empathy, says outgoing secretary of state

‘We now have a state, Abbas declares, returning triumphant to Ramallah

President tells crowd of thousands ‘We won’ and dedicates victory to Arafat and martyrs

Victorious Mahmoud Abbas feted by thousands in Ramallah

PA chief says no plans to turn to The Hague in a case against Israel, unless ‘the Palestinian people are attacked’

In Ramallah, UN vote brings little jubilation

‘We don’t want ’67,’ says a young university graduate. ‘We want all of Palestine’

The Palestinians deserve better

The UN statehood bid signals an escalation in the strategy of ‘lawfare’ against Israel

Future Palestinian state to try Israel at ICC for Arafat killing, official says

Head of panel probing leader’s death says ‘those whose policy is assassinations’ will be brought to justice

Results on possible Arafat poisoning expected in three months, Palestinian doctor says

Former PA president’s body exhumed, re-buried in Ramallah military ceremony

Arafat’s body exhumed, bone samples to be tested for radiation poisoning

Team of experts from Russia, France and Switzerland taking part in procedure; body to be re-buried in a military ceremony

Environmental protection minister calls Abbas a Hamas operative in disguise

‘At least Arafat wore a uniform, not a suit,’ says Gilad Erdan

Experts to exhume Arafat’s body on Tuesday for testing

Investigators searching for traces of poison; former Palestinian leader to be reburied within hours

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