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This biography portrays Yasser Arafat as a narrow-minded operator, out of touch with reality, whose personal ambitions and lack of undertanding of democratic principles have made him a deterrent to real peace in the Middle East. Said K. Aburish was born in the biblical village of Bethany near Jerusalem in 1935. He attended university in the United States and subsequently became a correspondent for Radio Free Europe and The Daily Mail, and a consultant to two Arab governments. Now a freelance journalist and author, his books include Children of Bethany, Cry Palestine, and Arafat: From Defender to Dictator.