Former President Clinton criticized Yasser Arafat for not compromising to reach a Mideast peace deal. The Palestinian Authority president was unable to change his “habits of heart and mind” in order to reach an agreement with then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Clinton said Sunday in New York at a fund raiser for American Friends of Rabin Medical Center.
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