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Arafat was a barrier to peace.
Chuck Schumer /
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Barrier
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Arafat is the greatest instigator of terror.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Terror
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I am the Israeli leader who met most with Arafat.
Ehud Barak / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Israeli
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
Yitzhak Rabin / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Atrocities
Carried
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Yasser Arafat never wanted to make peace with Israel.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
Joe Biden / Vice President Of The United States
Opportunity
Arafat
Departure
Awesome
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Arafat conducts terror; his strategy is the strategy of terror.
Ariel Sharon / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Arafat
Strategy
Terror
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In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
Amos Oz / Writer
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Bird
Regard
Sharon
Way
Feather
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Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.
James Taranto / Journalist
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Dying
Paris
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Arafat is the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.
Ariel Sharon / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Arafat
Middle East
Stability
Greatest Obstacle
Obstacle
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Arafat is hosting, training, supporting, sponsoring terrorist organizations.
Ariel Sharon / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Terrorist
Hosting
Sponsor
Supporting
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Chairman Arafat has invited me several times to visit him in Ramallah and to see El Bireh again.
Said Musa /
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Invited
Visit
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We have to remember that Arafat was the one that started with hijacking airplanes already in 1968.
Ariel Sharon / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Airplane
Arafat
Hijacking
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I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!
Muammar Al-Gaddafi / Former Prime Minister Of Libya
Arafat
East
Fool
Incompetent
Middle East
Stupid
Support
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In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times.
Elliott Abrams / Lawyer
Arafat
Clinton
White House
White House Who
Bill
Bill Clinton
Visited
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In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.
Silvan Shalom / National Infrastructure Minister Of Israel
Arafat
Independent
Palestinian
Views
Willing
World
Palestinian State
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Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
Oriana Fallaci / Journalist
Arafat
Double Standard
Lying
Minutes
Play
Lies
Plays
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Ask Bill Clinton about Yasir Arafat. Clinton and Barak did everything they could in 2000 at Camp David. Arafat walked away from it.
Peter T. King /
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Clinton
Ask
David
Bill
Bill Clinton
Camp
Walked
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Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.
Elliott Abrams / Lawyer
Arafat
Broke
Terrorism
David
Camp
Exploded
Palestinians
Talks
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There's a lot of egos in these countries, like the French, the Germans, et cetera, and so they keep funding and rehabilitating Yasser Arafat.
Leon Charney /
Arafat
Funding
Egos
Germans
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Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.
Dennis Ross /
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Available
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
Oriana Fallaci / Journalist
Kings
Arafat
Islamic
Leader
Pope
Real
Puppet
Dictators
Islamic World
Met
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
Natan Sharansky / Israeli Politician
Arafat
Flames
Hatred
Israel
Oslo
Resources
Surprising
Began
Decade
Disposal
Placed
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Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas have recognized Israel's right to exist. The Israeli government has never recognized our right to a sovereign state and self-determination.
Khaled Mashal / Political Leader
Arafat
Israeli
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Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.
Dennis Ross /
Arafat
Leader
Struggle
Life Done Always
Life Always Done
Door
Governed
Options
Palestinians
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The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
Natan Sharansky / Israeli Politician
Peace
Arafat
Fighting
Israel
Legitimacy
Oslo
Territory
Weapons
Central
Premise
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
Natan Sharansky / Israeli Politician
Peace
Arafat
Attention
Harsh
Paid
Prospects
Racist
Unfortunately
In Fact
Little Attention
Regime
Repressive
Ruled
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Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
Natan Sharansky / Israeli Politician
Peace
Arafat
Dictator
Hatred
Israel
Rejected
Strengthening
Afford
Directed
Energies
Palestinians
Toward
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First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
Benjamin Netanyahu / Prime Minister Of Israel
Arafat
Divided
Israel
Jerusalem
People
People Will Never
Jewish
Capital
First Of All
Jewish People
Remain
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
Oriana Fallaci / Journalist
War
Arafat
Believe
Clinton
Incompetent
Mediation
Pompous
Soul
Caused
David
Camp
Negotiations
Sends
Souls
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Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?
Warren Christopher / Former United States Deputy Secretary Of State
Arafat
Boycott
Election
Hamas
Opponents
Percent
Be Strong
Turnout
Urged
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This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.
Tom Paulin / Poet
Sympathy
Apartheid
Arafat
British
British Government
Engaging
Profile
Anti
Mandela
Translated
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At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap.
Elliott Abrams / Lawyer
Arafat
Israeli
Palestinian
Prime Minister
David
Bank
Camp
Minister
Offered
Swap
Ten Years
West Bank
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Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?
Ian Lustick /
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Clinton
Johnson
Sharon
Bill Clinton
Bush
George W
George W. Bush
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
Netanyahu
Nixon
Richard Nixon
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In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Arafat
Awe
Chairman
Climax
Handshake
Israeli
Liberation
Organization
Palestine
President
Prime Minister
September
White House
Lawn
Minister
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Right after the Six Day War, Arafat launched a series of guerrilla operations from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Acting on a tip, Israeli soldiers stormed the house where he was based, minutes too late. They found his food still warm on the table.
Ronen Bergman /
Arafat
Israeli
Jerusalem
Operations
Too Late
Warm
Bank
Guerrilla
Soldiers
Tip
West Bank
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Well, the right-wing policy with regard to Israel - the people who don't want to deal with Arafat, who don't want a Palestinian state - the whole sort of right-wing view is consistent with the view toward Iraq. It's the same policy and the same people.
Chris Matthews / Commentator
Arafat
Consistent
Palestinian
Policy
Regard
Right Wing
Palestinian State
Toward
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I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
Yitzhak Rabin / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Arafat
Chairman
Coexistence
Israel
Leader
Next
Palestinian
People
Purpose
Two
Jewish
Enter
Entities
Jewish State
Negotiations
Palestinian People
Representative
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I cannot penetrate the soul of Arafat. I cannot know in advance whether, behind all the masks, he's the kind of leader who can reach an agreement or whether he wants to be the Moses of the Palestinians, staying in front of the river and not crossing into the promised land.
Ehud Barak / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Agreement
Arafat
Moses
Penetrate
Promised Land
Staying
Advance
Crossing
Masks
Palestinians
Promised
River
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Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process that would end up in an - unhappy - Israeli-Egyptian peace. We have seen peace with Egypt. We have seen peace with Jordan. We have seen the handshake between Rabin and Arafat - things are possible.
Amos Oz / Writer
Arafat
Egypt
Handshake
Jerusalem
Jordan
President
Process
Unhappy
Week
Arrival
Nobody
Beginning
Seen
Peace Process
Predicted
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