(Globe and Mail - Canada) - With the 11-day Israeli siege of his compound over, calls are growing for Yasser Arafat's resignation. "It's close to impossible with Arafat as leader," said an aide to security minister Abdel Razak Yehiyeh. He complained that Yehiyeh's efforts to streamline the Palestinian armed forces and denounce the violence against Israeli citizens had been "undercut at every turn" by the Palestinian leader.
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