2.1 Caption: Arafat belongs to the generation who remember their homeland under British rule, under a mandate from the League of Nations. The partition of 1947 divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews, but the state of Israel, proclaimed in 1948, seized further territory and Arafat became one of many thousands of exiles
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2.2 Headline: UN FLAG COMES DOWN IN MIDDLE EAST
2.2 Date: The Times, May 20 1967
2.2 Caption: In 1948 the Palestinians were mostly unarmed and relied on other Arab countries for guns and firepower. But the Palestine Liberation Organisation, founded in 1964 was a guerrilla army dedicated to waging war on Israel and win back the land lost after 1948
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2.3 Headline: BATTLE FLARES UP NEAR SUEZ CANAL
2.3 Date: The Times, July 3 1967
2.3 Caption: The 1967 Six Day War, which followed UN withdrawal from the Egyptian- Israeli frontier, left Israel in occupation of the West Bank of Jordan and the Gaza Strip, the remainder of Palestine, territory which has been the focus of bitter fighting and protracted negotiation ever since
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2.4 Headline: ON THE SEVENTH DAY
2.4 Date: The Times, June 25 1969
2.4 Caption: The Six Day War was a disaster for the Palestinians, creating a new generation of dispossessed. Israel consolidated its hold on the occupied territories by building Jewish settlements. This made the prospect of a return even more remote
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2.5 Caption: Defeat in 1967 marked a watershed in Palestinian politics. Fatah, the largest single Palestinian faction, effectively took control of the PLO and thus gave Palestinians a stronger and more united voice than it had ever had before. In 1969 Arafat was elected Chairman of the PLO's executive committee
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Chapter: STRUGGLES
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3.1 Headline: PALESTINIANS CHOOSE MR ARAFAT AS CHIEF
3.1 Date: The Times, July 12 1971
3.1 Caption: The PLO's governing body is the Palestine National Council, a parliament-in- exile, theoretically elected by the Palestinian people. In practice the make-up of the PNC is negotiated between factions often sponsored by different Arab countries
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3.2 Caption: In 1970 the PLO was forced out of Jordan after bitter fighting with King Hussein's forces and they relocated to Lebanon. Three of their key leaders were killed in Beirut in 1973 by Israeli commandos. In 1974 Arafat shocked the UN General Assembly by wearing a gun holster with his Palestinian uniform
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3.3 Caption: In 1982, Israel under Menachem Begin invaded Lebanon in response to attacks launched by PLO fighters in the south of the country. The PLO had also played a part in the civil war which broke out in Lebanon in 1975
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3.4 Headline: CHAOS AND EMOTION IN PALESTINE
3.4 Date: The Times, Nov 11 1988
3.4 Caption: In 1987 the Intifada (uprising) in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, was brutally suppressed by Israeli troops. The violence shifted international opinion in favour of the PLO, and Yasser Arafat pragmatically led the organisation away from its commitment to armed struggle with Israel towards a negotiated settlement
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3.5 Headline: US LAUNCHES TALKS WITH PLO TO END BOYCOTT
3.5 Date: The Times, Dec 16 1988
3.5 Caption: Once the Palestine National Council had accepted UN Resolution 242, implicitly recognising Israel's right to exist, the main diplomatic obstacle to peace negotiations was eliminated. But it was another five years before Arafat could claim significant progress
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Chapter: ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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4.1 Caption: The signing of the peace accord and symbolic handshake with Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin on September 13 1993 marked the crowning point of Arafat's career. The former terrorist had become an international statesman
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4.2 Headline: RESCUE OF THE 'CAT WITH SEVEN SOULS'
4.2 Date: The Time, April 9 1992
4.2 Caption: Arafat's longevity as Palestinian leader is remarkable. He has survived many reversals of fortune (when the PLO were driven out of Jordan in 1970, and Beirut in 1982), and numerous bitter internal disputes within the PLO. Many of his colleagues have been assassinated
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4.3 Headline: A CIVILISED VOICE FOR PALESTINE
4.3 Date: The Times, Sept 3 1993
4.3 Caption: Hanan Ashrawi became spokeswoman for the Palestinians at the opening of the peace talks in Madrid in 1991, and has rapidly become one of the best known Arab women in the world. A university professor and mother of two, she has helped present the Palestinian case in a sympathetic light
