Yasser arafat

Share this • Share on Facebook: Yasser Arafat – Facts Share this content on Facebook Facebook • Tweet: Yasser Arafat – Facts Share this content on Twitter Twitter • Share on LinkedIn: Yasser Arafat – Facts Share this content on LinkedIn LinkedIn • Share via Email: Yasser Arafat – Facts Share this content via Email Email this page Yasser Arafat Facts Yasser Arafat The Nobel Peace Prize 1994 Born: 24 August 1929, Cairo, Egypt Died: 11 November 2004, Paris, France Residence at the time of the award: Palestine Role: Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority Prize motivation: “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East” Prize share: 1/3 A Pistol and an Olive Branch In 1974, Yasser Arafat addressed the UN General Assembly. He said he was holding an olive branch for peace in one hand and a freedom fighter's pistol in the other. Twenty years later he and the Israeli leaders Peres and Rabin received the Peace Prize for having opted for the olive branch by signing the so-called Oslo Accords in Washington. The agreement was aimed at reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. Arafat grew up in Cairo and Jerusalem. He took part in the war against the new state of Israel in 1948, when many Palestinians were expelled. As a qualified engineer, he took a job in Kuwait. From there, he organized the guerrilla group Fatah, which attacked Israel. Following Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, Arafat became...

On September 9, 1993, the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, signed a letter to Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel. In that letter Arafat wrote: The PLO considers that the signing of the Declaration of Principles constitutes a historic event, inaugurating a new epoch of peaceful coexistence, free from violence and all other acts which endanger peace and stability. Accordingly, the PLO renounces the use of terrorism and other acts of violence and will assume responsibility over all PLO elements and personnel in order to assure their compliance, prevent violations and discipline violators. Two days later, on the strength of that commitment—and its acceptance by the Government of Israel—President Clinton announced that he was removing the PLO from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. And two days after that Yasser Arafat was welcomed to the White House to witness the signing of the Oslo Accords and to seal them with an historic handshake with Yitzhak Rabin. It was a dramatic moment, capturing the hopes of Israelis and Palestinians alike for a peaceful resolution of their century-old conflict. Yasser Arafat’s transformation from terrorist leader to would-be statesman in those few, short days back in 1993 was a calculated gambit. Yitzhak Rabin had been elected by the Israeli people to make peace with the Palestinians. He had tried to do so with the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza but had quickly discovered that t...

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YASSER ARAFAT (1929 – 2004) DATES EVENT Chronological Order (oldest first) 1929 "Yasser Arafat was born in Jerusalem-Palestine in 1929." "Yasser Arafat is born, the fifth child of a prosperous Palestinian merchant. Arafat says he was born in Jerusalem, but independent researchers say his birthplace was either Gaza or Cairo, Egypt." "Born on August 4, 1929 in Cairo." < 1933 "After his mother’s death, Arafat [age 4] and a younger brother were sent to their uncle in Jerusalem for several years, far from his father and his close family in Cairo. Information on these years is scanty and is primarily based on much later testimonies of his relatives." 1946 "By 1946, he [Arafat] had become a Palestinian nationalist and was procuring weapons in Egypt to be smuggled into Palestine for the Arab cause." 1948 "In the 1948 war, when he was a student in Cairo, he joined a small group of students who attempted to reach Israel to take part in the fighting. When they reached Gaza, a regular Egyptian army unit disarmed them and prevented them from joining in the hostilities." 1951 - 1957 "Arafat studies engineering at Cairo University and becomes involved with the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. He organizes and leads the Union of Palestinian Students." "In 1956, Arafat and a group of other middle-class Palestinians living in Kuwait decided to rededicate themselves to the liberation of Palestine and formed their own underground guerrilla organization called al-Fatah ('Victory')." 1964 "In...

Relations with Rabin had remained respectful, even if they were sometimes difficult—especially on the sensitive subject of Israel’s ongoing settlement activity. But with Rabin’s assassination by a Jewish extremist in November 1995 and the election in May 1996 of In July 2000 Clinton Negotiations continued after the failure at Camp David, but a visit by Likud leader intifāḍah, and the dwindling talks ground to a halt. A spiral of harsh repression by the Israeli army and violence by different armed Palestinian groups subsequently led to both sides’ total loss of confidence in the peace process. In spite of the January 2001 negotiations at Ṭābā, Egypt, which were held independently of the United States and made important progress, the Barak government lost the February 2001 general elections and Sharon—a strong opponent of both the Oslo Accords and the creation of a Palestinian state—was elected prime minister. “We have no partner for peace” was once more the general Arafat lost much of his diplomatic credibility with the West after the election of U.S. Pres. Many of Arafat’s supporters doubted that he had died a natural death, their suspicions being fueled in part by the doctors’ inability to identify the origin of his illness and the lack of an autopsy, and rumours circulated that he had died from poisoning. These suspicions surfaced again in July 2012 when a Swiss laboratory announced that it had discovered elevated levels of The results of the separate investigations, rel...

Arafat’s supporters would claim that without armed struggle, the Palestinian issue would have remained no more than yet another refugee problem alongside the many other displacements lingering on the periphery of the world’s conscience. His detractors would claim that the use of violence marred his reputation, and that his idiosyncratic rule did not serve his people well. After Arafat’s death, his successor ways. As Arafat’s long-time comrade and associate, Abbas inherited much of his legitimacy from their years of common struggle and dedication to the cause, but he took a different approach. Attempts at state-building and an unwavering commitment to negotiations and diplomacy have substituted for Arafat’s revolutionary ethos. Whether this will prove to be a more successful path for fulfilling Palestinian aspirations has yet to be seen, but as Abbas’s era reaches its limits – Abbas is 79 – the next phase of Palestinian politics is unlikely to replicate what has passed before. The political future of Palestine appears bleak. True authority has been depleted by long years of struggle, by death, detention, occupation, and the seemingly fruitless search for freedom and restitution. The diaspora, in which the majority of Palestinians live, has never been so marginalised or voiceless, and the refugees, the heartland of Arafat’s revolution and the core of the struggle, have never faced such denial and deprivation. After Arafat and Abbas, it is unlikely that a new national leaders...

Yasser Arafat may have been reviled in Israel and some parts of the international community as the architect of countless gruesome acts of violence, and viewed with disdain in Western (and even some Arab) capitals for alleged diplomatic duplicity, but among his own people he has been lionized as nothing less than the father of the Palestinian national movement. Before his decline into terminal illness with his Ramallah headquarters surrounded by Israeli tanks in 2004, Arafat personified the Palestinians’ emergence – through a combination of armed struggle and diplomacy – on the international stage as an independent force. Born in 1929 – his birthplace, like so much else about Arafat’s life, remains disputed, with some claiming it was Cairo or Gaza, while the Palestinian leader himself always insisted he was born in Jerusalem – he founded the Fatah movement in the late 1950s, with a view to rallying the Palestinians driven out of Israel in 1948 to take up arms. His organization mounted several attacks from various Arab territories, but it was after the war of June 1967, in which Israel vanquished the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in a matter of days, that Fatah’s central role was cemented. Its message that Palestinians should take control of their own struggle and not mandate any Arab government to deal with Israel on their behalf resonated with a Palestinian population absorbing the shock of the Arab defeat, which left Israel occupying East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Ga...