Before Yasser Arafat was evacuated from besieged Beirut on 30 August 1982, an Israeli sniper had him in his sights but was refused permission to kill him. Arafat was by then a recognised political leader, and thus enjoyed something much stronger than diplomatic immunity: he was protected by the tacit but absolute rule under which no Arab government has ever tried to assassinate any Israeli political leader and vice versa.
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