Yasser Arafat, the Nobel Peace Prize winner revered as the Palestinians’ greatest champion by some and reviled as an opportunistic terrorist by others, died in a Paris hospital today. His passing marked the end of an era in modern Middle East history, and some hoped it could spur new efforts at Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. As can be expected, John Howard committed his usual bumbling faux pas on Arafat’s passing
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