Yasser Arafat has let the Palestinian people down, leaving them “poor and isolated and frustrated,” President Bush said. Speaking to European reporters Tuesday before leaving for a trip abroad, Bush reiterated themes from a speech last month in which he said the Palestinian Authority president had failed his people.
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