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Palestinian leader YASSER ARAFAT'S outburst last week--threatening to renew the intifadeh and warning Israel "our rifles are ready"--seemed strange, given that the Knesset was debating a controversial land transfer to the Palestinian Authority. According to a senior aide, however, the Chairman's remarks, to a gathering of his Fatah organization, were meant for local consumption only. Arafat, says the official, is furious with the group's secretary-general, MARWAN BARGHOUTI, who has led an anticorruption campaign within Fatah that culminated in an anti-P.A. riot in Ramallah last month. The ferocious rhetoric, says the source...
...Yasser Arafat, who used to show up with an olive branch and a gun, now comes to Washington with his bank book. In a meet-and-greet with President Clinton, Arafat secured a pledge for about $400 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority in addition to the hundred mil the U.S. already kicks in yearly. The announcement comes as part of a kind of Palestinian telethon in which Arafat will meet with representatives from some 45 countries to try to better the $2.3 billion they contributed in a similar fund-raiser five years...
...attention to the Israeli behind the curtain. Yasser Arafat opened the new Gaza International Airport Tuesday in a fanfare of publicity, declaring it an important milestone on the road to Palestinian statehood. "But once the emotion has died down and Palestinians realize the airport is another Israeli checkpoint, the response will be different," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad...
When Clinton pulls, however, it is Berger who moves into action. While media-savvy Madeleine Albright grabs most of the headlines for selling American foreign policy, Berger most often crafts it--and carries it out. Last month he waded deep into the Wye Plantation talks between Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu. In August he helped orchestrate a strike against Osama bin Laden. Says Energy Secretary Bill Richardson: "People don't realize how much he's increased the stature and scope of that...
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's outburst last week -- threatening to renew the intifada and warning Israel "our rifles are ready" -- seemed strange, given that the Knesset was debating a controversial land transfer to the Palestinian Authority. According to a senior aide, however, the chairman's remarks, to a gathering of his Fatah organization, were meant for local consumption only. Arafat, says the official, is furious with the group?s secretary-general, Marwan Barghouti, who has led an anticorruption campaign within Fatah that culminated in an anti-P.A. riot in Ramallah last month. The ferocious rhetoric, says the source...