Israel Hoping Arafat Death Will Remove Peace Obstacle
by Joshua Mitnick and Stewart Ain Staff Writers Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader who brought his people to the brink of statehood only to throw it away on a senseless, four-year reign of terror...
View ArticleThe Three Amigos
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher The handsome, charismatic head of state has somehow maintained public support despite a series of incredible, seemingly fatal setbacks — from political scandals to...
View ArticleIs Arafat Losing Hold?
by Stewart Ain Staff Writer Clashes erupted this week for the first time between radical Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority, a sign political analysts see as a weakening of Palestinian...
View ArticleBall’s In Arafat’s Court
by Stewart Ain Staff Writer As Israeli leaders waited for Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat to signal an easing of his uncompromising position on Jerusalem, they were pessimistic that it would come in...
View ArticleArafat Mulling Wye Delay
by Stewart Ain Staff Writer Although Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat has promised to spend the next two weeks considering a modification of the Wye accords, he strongly hinted that the...
View ArticleArafat Trying To Reunite Factions
by Stewart Ain Staff Writer As the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks inched fitfully forward this week, Yasir Arafat moved to shore up his leadership position in the Palestinian community by seeking to...
View ArticleArafat Sounds Extremist Warning
by Stewart Ain Staff Writer Ramallah, West Bank — Saying he feared attacks by Islamic extremists who have created a bloodbath in Algeria, Palestinian Authority President Yasir Arafat pleaded with...
View ArticleArafat Stalls On New PM
by Stewart Ain Staff Writer Using as an excuse Israel’s aborted 10-day siege of his Ramallah compound, Yasir Arafat this week delayed reforms of the Palestinian Authority demanded by the United...
View ArticleN.Y. Rep. Defends Arafat Visit
by Adam Dickter Staff Writer The New York congressman who visited Yasir Arafat last week said the meeting accomplished nothing, and he denounced the waning Palestinian leader as an obstacle to peace...
View ArticleArafat Must Go, Says His Brooklyn Advocate
by Adam Dickter Staff Writer The young Jewish man from Brooklyn who famously shared breakfast with Yasir Arafat last April, holed up in his Ramallah compound, says the Palestinian leader is corrupt...
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