“Let it collapse, it will be the fault of Israel and the Americans.”

—  Yasser Arafat

Edward G. Abington, a former State Department official who is now a Washington consultant to the Palestinian Authority regarding the future of the Palestinian Authority http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17536-2004Feb29.html (2004-02-29) -->
2000s

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former Palestinian President, and Nobel Peace Prize recipie… 1929–2004

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