Word: yasser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pick up a copy of the Harvard Gazette and see the president of Harvard University clasping hands with a terrorist such as Yasser Arafat presented so jarring an image that it could not go without being noted. To imagine that a murderer has been allowed the privilege of addressing an audience at this proud institution and to tread upon ground hallowed by the footsteps of heroes, is surely enough to send chills down the spine of every decent member of our community...
...should be remembered that Yasser Arafat was catapulted into the international spotlight even before the advent of his brainchild, the "Intifada." Scarcely five years after the adoption of the Camp David Accords, the first honest effort at Middle East peace, this terrorist-turned-Harvard lecturer was coordinating the most effective, bloody exercises in civilian warfare since the end of the Second World...
...have all been enlightened by Arafat's real politics. Terrorism works. It won't stain your permanent record. It will accord you respect for loyalty to a cause, any cause, in a world ruled by diplomatic men living in a more civilized moral vacuum. Now Yasser can be one of us. We should welcome his visit for he is a true diplomat. It seems that the Mayor mistook principle for policy. Let's not let that happen again...
...West Bank. But in an interview from the Israeli prison where he was jailed for life in 1989, Sheik Ahmed Yassin told an Israeli Arab lawmaker that the agreement could not be ignored and that he was willing to "give it a chance." The pronouncement came as P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat allowed the previously banned Hamas weekly newspaper Al Watan to resume publication...
...Jacques Chirac. A pair of paleocommunist and postcommunist leaders could be found in the third row from the front, where Fidel Castro (fifth from right), in a business suit rather than his customary fatigues, loomed over Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic to his right. In the fifth row, Yasser Arafat (just below the "50" banner) was placed near Yitzhak Rabin of Israel--Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, on Arafat's left, separated them. To Rabin's right was Tomiichi Murayama, the Prime Minister of Japan. Nelson Mandela (second row, second from left) wore dark glasses. One of the tiniest countries...