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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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January 4, 2013
Palestinian Territories
Arafat and the Second Intifada
Analysts have long debated the role of Yasir Arafat in the second intifada, the violent Palestinian uprising that followed on the failure of Camp David in 2000. The PLO and Palestinian Authority (PA…
August 8, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Yasser Arafat International Airport
To those unfamiliar with the term, "Yasser Arafat International Airport" must seem like the punch line to some joke about international terrorism. Yet it existed in Gaza, briefly, and President Clin…
December 26, 2013
Palestinian Territories
Arafat and al-Jazeera: Manufacturing Trouble
This week Russian experts added their voices to those of French experts who had examined Yasser Arafat’s remains to determine if he was poisoned. "French experts have ruled out a theory that Yasser …
November 11, 2013
Israel
Yasser Arafat: Dead Again
With all the important news going on in the Middle East this past week, Al Jazeera took time out to remind its audience that Yasser Arafat is still dead. It has been nine years since the Palestinian …
November 7, 2014
Arafat--Ten Years Later
Yasser Arafat died ten years ago, on November 11, 2004. I am posting this "appreciation" a bit early, and anticipating an outflow of mourning and praise for Arafat next week. In fact, he was a curse…
