YASSER ARAFAT FILER

epa000311128 (FILES) Picture dated 1993 shows Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (R) in his historic handshake with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (L) on the White House lawn as the two leaders are brought together by US President Bill Clinton. Yasser Arafat, revered as the champion of Palestinian statehood and reviled as a terrorist, died Thursday, 11 November 2004, at the age of 75, spreading spasms of grief among Palestinians and rekindling calls for new peace talks with Israel. Arafat’s death marked a turning point in modern Middle East history, leaving the Palestinians without a strong leader for the first time in four decades an

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