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Arafat buried after mourners give him emotional farewell
"President Arafat would have wanted it this way, with exhilaration, feelings of loyalty, pain, sadness and love all at once," Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi told The Associated Press. "The people reclaimed him. They wanted to say goodbye without distance."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=582330
Mandela: Arafat was 'outstanding freedom fighter'
South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela on Thursday hailed Arafat as "an icon in the proper sense of the word" and urged new commitment to a Middle East settlement. "Yasser Arafat was one of the outstanding freedom fighters of this generation, one who gave his entire life to the cause of the Palestinian people,"
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/500406.html
Arafat was only man who could have delivered peace: ex-Israeli MP
Veteran peace campaigner and former MP Uri Avnery, one of the few Israelis to attend Yasser Arafat's burial in Ramallah, said he came to pay tribute to a man who wanted and could have delivered peace in the Middle East.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=8&u=/afp/20041112/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_arafat_israel_041112180226
Arafat's Death Highlights Palestinian Divisions
Another name in the frame is jailed West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti. However, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom categorically ruled out any role for Barghuti in the Palestinian leadership following the death of Arafat. "Barghouti was convicted to life in prison and he will stay in prison until the end of his days...
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1393360,00.html
Bush Envoy Calls on Israel to Release Jailed Palestinian Leader
A Baker, the former U.S. secretary of state, who currently serves as the Bush administration's special envoy on Iraqi debt, called on the Israeli government to release Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Palestinian leader who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail...
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0445/fahim.php
The Palestinian Problem
"That it cannot adequately be described or narrated, that the Arabs say or do nothing in support of the [Palestinian] struggle, that the United States is so terrifyingly hostile, that the Europeans are ... so useless, all this has driven many of us to despair, I know, and to a kind of hopeless frustration," writes Said.
http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/Lifestyle/content?oid=oid:89206
Palestinian pollster: Arafat's death won't leave void
However, Shikaki warned, no elections were likely to confer legitimacy if Marwan Barghouti, who is currently serving five life sentences for murder in Israel, did not participate, as Barghouti commands the support of 20 to 25 percent of the Palestinian public.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/500592.html
Palestinian Youths Fight Israeli Police
Hundreds of Palestinian youths scuffled with Israeli police at a Jerusalem holy site Friday, after police barred them from prayers amid fear of riots and unrest during the funeral and burial of Yasser Arafat.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=18&u=/ap/20041112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/arafat_israel
Shalom: Barghouti will not be released from prison
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom reacted Thursday to speculation that Israel would release jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti as a goodwill gesture to the new Palestinian leadership.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1100147299762
Arafat's Jordanian Physician Urges Autopsy
Yasser Arafat's Jordanian physician on Friday urged an autopsy be performed on the Palestinian leader because of the mystery surrounding his illness and death.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20041112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/jordan_arafat_s_doctor
Israeli Arabs respond minimally to death of Arafat
The mourning tent set up by the "Village Sons" movement in Umm al-Fahm was virtually empty. There were no mass processions in Nazareth to mark the death of the Palestinian leader. And less than 200 Israeli Arabs traveled to Ramallah to participate in Arafat's burial.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=501078&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Bush pledges help to Palestinians
"We are going to develop a strategy so that once the (Palestinian) elections are over, we will be able to say: 'Here's how we will help you. If you want to be helped, here's what we're willing to do. If you chose not to be helped, if you decide you don't want a free, democratic society, there's nothing we can do,'" Bush said.
http://www.wpherald.com/Middle_East/storyview.php?StoryID=20041112-013415-7277r
Blair will press US president to make Middle East a priority
Mr Blair said he would work tirelessly for the creation of a viable Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel. "Peace in the Middle East must be the international community's highest priority," he said. "We will do whatever we can, working with the US and the EU, to help the parties reach a fair and durable settlement." But...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1349556,00.html
Settlers threaten IDF refusal if pullout takes place
Gaza Strip settlers, declaring that the security forces have become a tool of "the dictator Sharon" have begun circulating a petition threatening that if the prime minister's disengagement plan is carried out, the settlers and their families would refuse to serve in the security forces.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/500908.html
Doctor demands autopsy
Deceased Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat's longtime physician Ashraf al-Kurdy has called for a full autopsy, saying the Palestinian people had a right to know how their leader died. Dr al-Kurdy, who has attended to Arafat for more than 25 years, told Aljazeera the circumstances of his illness and death remained unclear.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/94300B85-6A5F-4489-9221-846F09564A54.htm
Yasir Arafat
It was the PLO, under Arafat's leadership, that restored Palestinian pride and helped to forge a nation out of a population that was geographically dispersed and politically divided. And it was Arafat who led the PLO, in the face of fierce internal resistance, into adopting the two-state solution in the mid-1970s. But his conciliatory peace offering at the UN General Assembly in 1974...
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20041129&s=editors2
Israel's death festival
Many Israeli politicians followed suit with insults directed at the dying Palestinian leader. Israeli comedians, who nowadays shy away from political satire directed at their own leaders, have been mocking Arafat with the most degrading impersonations. A festive atmosphere has taken over the country.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1349616,00.html
Arafat, father of the Palestinian cause - By Miguel Angel Moratinos
Under the difficult circumstances that the Palestinian people have endured and, indeed, are still suffering, some may opt for inertia, alleging their destiny to be inevitable. Such was not the case of Yasser Arafat. History should judge him with intelligence and with honesty. In his life, there was no shortage of action, or of vision or of political courage. Rest in peace...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=582056
New York Times coverage of Arafat's death
What voices are missing? Palestinian ones. This is the recurring problem of American and European approaches to the Middle East. Arab voices are systematically undervalued, discounted, or actively suppressed -- not just by their own autocrats but also by Westerners claiming to be acting "in Arabs' best interests"...
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3315.shtml
Hezbollah says it has capability to bomb Israel from the air
The drone Hezbollah flew over Israel on Sunday "can be laden with a quantity of explosives, 40 to 50 kilograms and can hit any target, be it water or power plant, a military base or airport," Sheik Hassan Nasrallah told a mass rally in eastern Lebanon.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=501073&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
Vanunu rearrested for talking to foreign press
In one of these he said: "There are still nuclear weapons materials in Israel, and I believe that during the past 18 years more have been built." He urged the United States to press Israel to give up the bomb. Police sources said yesterday: "Vanunu has flagrantly violated the conditions of his release. Something must be done to stop this."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=582013
Hamas leader in rare appearance at Arafat funeral
Israel's most wanted man, Khaled Meshaal, leader of the Islamic militant movement Hamas, made a rare public appearance at Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's funeral alongside US and other Western officials.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=13&u=/afp/20041112/wl_mideast_afp/mideast_arafat_egypt_041112154031
New rebel tactics emerge in Fallujah
After three days of measurable progress, American forces trying to take full control of Fallujah are confronting an insurgent force that has renewed energy. And as American and Iraqi forces spread their grip across the city, the constant skirmishes of close urban combat and burst-in searches door-to-door are revealing more about insurgent tactics, including sleeper cells.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1112/p01s02-woiq.html
Iraqi Gov't Warns Media About Coverage
The Iraqi government warned news organizations Thursday to distinguish between insurgents and ordinary civilians in coverage of the fighting in Fallujah and to promote the leadership's position or face unspecified action.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=7076&s2=12
U.S. troops raid Baghdad mosque
U.S.-led troops have stormed a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad and arrested its radical preacher who has urged Iraqi forces not to fight alongside Americans attacking the rebel city of Falluja. ( Only Pro-US DEMOCRACY acceptable? )
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=619651§ion=news
US marines find underground prison, bodies in Fallujah
The prison was discovered in a house in the Jolan neighbourhood, considered the insurgent nerve centre in the city. Marines were clearing the building after it was shelled by the US military when they were alerted by screaming.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=16&u=/afp/20041112/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_fallujah_prison_041112182614
GIs Force Men Fleeing Fallujah to Return
Hundreds of men trying to flee the assault on Fallujah have been turned back by U.S. troops following orders to allow only women, children and the elderly to leave.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=246764
Rebels take fight to Mosul, as helicopter downed
A top police officer and two guards were killed in Mosul as US troops battled to restore order in Iraq's third city, where gunmen roamed the streets in response to a US-led assault on Fallujah.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=2&u=/afp/20041112/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_041112194422
Shiite Silence over Fallujah Assault Criticized
“The silence of Shiite leaders over the US military campaign on the Sunni city of Fallujah is dubious and weird,” Sheikh Mahdi El-Bedeiri, a Shiite scholar, told IslamOnline.net. El-Bedeiri suspected that Shiite scholars stopped short of condemning the strikes against the 300,000-populated Fallujah because of political reasons.
http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=2&p=7092&s2=12
U.S. Seeks More Dutch Help in Iraq
State Department said Friday it is encouraging the Dutch government to continue contributing to Iraq's security beyond the scheduled March 15 departure date for Dutch troops.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=3&u=/ap/20041112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_netherlands_iraq |
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