A columnist for a major Arabic daily wrote that Yasser Arafat is an obstacle to Palestinian national aspirations and must be removed. In her Sept. 19 column in the London-based Al-Sharq Al- Awsat, journalist Huda al-Husseini urged the Palestinian people and Arab states to oust the Palestinian Authority president from the political arena.
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