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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Arafat, Yasir also Yasser Originally Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat (As Qudwa al-Hussaeini). 1929-2004. Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization who in 1996 was elected the first president of the Palestinian Authority, the newly formed Palestinian self-rule government. He shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Palestinian statesman who was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1929-2004)
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“NABIL ABURANI, ARAFAT SPOKESMAN: And he promised President Clinton to think the proposal in -- with his leadership, and that's what President Arafat did the last two days.”
CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Crisis in the Middle East - October 14, 2000
“But Israel says the actual target is what it calls Arafat's "terrorist infrastructure.”
“They have NINE! and one of them [Arafat] is a murderer (Allahu Akbar, indeed!)”
“[…] He was blunt and truthful, when lying was a job description in Arafat's apparatus.”
Global Voices in English » Palestine: Remembering Shafiq Al Hout
“Arafat is the one who invented airline hijacking for terror purposes.”
“Obama to Kissinger and Arafat is a bit much don't you think?”
“An imaginary state, like that declared by Arafat, is a lot easier to found.”
The Washington Post: Can the United Nations create a Palestinian state?
“The violence that ebbed in the months following the death of Arafat is on the rise again; suicide bombings have returned to Israel as settlements continue to encroach on”
“Secondly, I was interested in Arafat because I have spent a good part of my career writing about con artists.”
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