"Arafat was a barrier to peace." — Charles Schumer

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• Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity. — Joe Biden
• [Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary… — Yitzhak Rabin
• Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman. — John F. Kerry
• I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose… — Yitzhak Rabin
• In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state. — Silvan Shalom
• The principal sponsors of the terrorists are not religious fanatics. "Palestine's Yasser Arafat, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and Syria's Assad family… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Like Mahmoud Abbas. He is not gaining anything. He puts conditions and Israel ignores them. Israel doesn’t give him any… — Leila Khaled
• Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's… — Natan Sharansky
• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his… — Natan Sharansky
• It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do. — Mark Steyn
• The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use… — Natan Sharansky
• Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward… — Natan Sharansky

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