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.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.