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...Yasser Arafat today is the head of a world-recognized Palestinian nation. He is the man who in September of 1993 signed an agreement to end the bitter warfare which had been continuing since the Palestinian uprisings began in 1987. He is the leader of the Palestinian people who was invited to the White House in May of 1994 and there signed an agreement heralding the initial withdrawal of Israel from the occupied territories. He is a prominent figure in the Arab world who expresses a strong desire to work out future problems with Israel by peaceful means...
...This is Yasser Arafat today. One must recognize him as a key player in the ongoing Middle East peace process He has demonstrated both the desire and the ability to play this central role and it is for this important and humanity tarian function that he is deserving of support. For this Yasser Arafat of today and the peace process towards which his efforts are directed, I eagerly await to applaud...
...precisely at the moment that I envision myself clapping, a lump develops in my throat. The Yasser Arafat of yesterday is still very much alive, maybe not in the news, but in my mind. He was the head of the P.L.O., an organization recognized across the world as one heavily involved in terrorist activities...
...accessory to terrorism," claiming that he "knows of, condones, and lends support to such acts." It was the U.S. and Israel against the rest of the world, yet we considered this man to be reprehensible, justifying our decision to deny him entrance to our country. This is the Yasser Arafat of yesterday. This is the man for whom I hesitate to applaud...
Aides to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani quietly asked Yasser Arafat to leave a special New York Philharmonic performance of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" Monday night because he was not invited, the Associated Press reports. Giuliani had said that the PLO leader and Fidel Castro were not to join other dignitaries in town for the U.N. celebration, but Arafat turned up in his highly-visible, checked headress anyway...