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Byline: Stephen Winn
In a terrible blunder in 2000, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected then-President Clinton's plan for an independent state. In the 2 { years of riots and terrorism that followed, it remained uncertain when _ or even if _ the Palestinians would get another chance at a country of their own.
On Tuesday, however, their prospects brightened.
The Palestinian parliament agreed to ease Arafat and his violent ways aside, shifting authority to a new prime minister and his Cabinet.
The prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, said the words that the United States, Israel and much of the rest of the world needed to hear from a ...
Source: HighBeam Research, New leader injects hope into Middle East.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)