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The Media Line
April 24, 2018
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), like so many other Peace Prize recipients—notably, former U.S. president Barack Obama in 2008, before he even assumed office; and then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1994, after signing the failed Oslo Accords with Israel—wasÃâà...
Al-Monitor
April 23, 2018
From 1988 to 1993, our leader Chairman Yasser Arafat understood that the Palestinian narrative had to be rectified. That Palestinian independence at last would happen alongside Israel, and not replacing it.” The official explained that the Oslo Accord emerged from that recognition. For the sake ofÃâà...
The New Arab
April 21, 2018
As well as being the only country in the former Soviet bloc to maintain diplomatic relations with Israel after the 1967 Six Day War, Romania under its Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu also had close links to Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) under Yasser Arafat. In its statement the foreignÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
April 13, 2018
A former adviser to the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Bassam Abu Sharif has criticised the Palestinian Authority and current President Mahmoud Abbas for failing to support the Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip. “There is a clear failure by the Palestinian Authority leadership regarding theÃâà...
Haaretz
April 13, 2018
He remains the plane hijacker from Damascus, the man from the Rejectionist Front who was no different from all the rest of the “terrorists” from Yasser Arafat to Wadie Haddad to Nayef Hawatmeh. Now along comes Eli Galia's Hebrew-language book “George Habash: A Political Biography." It outlines theÃâà...
Kasmir Monitor
April 11, 2018
The message from Yasser Arafat was that ZAB was precious, not only for Pakistan but for the whole world. Tell Bhutto to cooperate with us so that we can take him out of prison, Arafat had told Murtaza. Bhutto listened to what Tariq Islam was passing on and then said: Please convey my regards to YasserÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 2, 2018
Eleven American families sued the PLO, Yasser Arafat, and others over seven terror incidents between 2001 and 2004, claiming that the attacks were perpetrated by security officers and other agents of the Palestinian Authority. The families invoked the federal Anti-Terrorism Act, which gives any AmericanÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 2, 2018
The families said late PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004, and his agents routinely arranged for payments to attackers and to families of militants who died. The Palestinian Authority and PLO have said they condemned the attacks and blamed them on rogue individuals within the organizationsÃâà...
Haaretz
April 1, 2018
In early 1988, at the beginning of the uprising in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, Yasser Arafat convened the Palestinian leadership at PLO headquarters in Tunis. The leaders were surprised by the intensity of the events that had started a few weeks earlier in December 1987. To really understand Israel andÃâà...
BBC News
March 21, 2018
Mr Avnery was about to become the first Israeli to formally meet the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat. He recalls his route to the encounter with his country's sworn enemy - "a bit dangerous", he concedes - as he was picked up in an armoured Mercedes before "zigging and zagging" through south Beirut to a PLOÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 17, 2018
The municipality was forced to take down signs on a street it had named for Yasser Arafat after Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, declared he would not allow any street to bear the late Palestinian leader's name. Netanyahu threatened to pass legislation to outlaw such names, if necessary,Ãâà...
Haaretz
March 13, 2018
January 2005: Abbas wins presidential elections, held some two months after the death of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. January 2006: Separate parliamentary elections see the radical Islamist Hamas unexpectedly beating Abbas' secular, mainstream Fatah, ending years of traditional FatahÃâà...
Mondoweiss
March 12, 2018
It was Trump who gave Abbas the honor of being the first Palestinian leader to get an invitation for a high profile visit to the White House since Yasser Arafat was called to Washington by Bill Clinton during the last peace process. “I can't remember in recent history that a Palestinian president met anÃâà...
+972 Magazine
March 12, 2018
Israel allowed him to return to the West Bank in 1995, and a year later Yasser Arafat appointed him mayor of Nablus. He entered public consciousness after the IDF killed his son, Jihad, during the Second Intifada. In the 2006 Palestinian elections, al-Aloul was elected to join the Palestinian LegislativeÃâà...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
March 12, 2018
So again, according to this Statement the blame does not lie with the Palestinians, led for decades by the terrorist Yasser Arafat and now by someone who refused a peace deal in 2008 and has for nine years refused to negotiate. The Statement is radical in backing fully the Palestinian demand that theÃâà...
Middle East Media Research Institute
March 12, 2018
The chairman of the Yasser Arafat Institute, Fatah Central Committee member Nasser Al-Qudwa, said: "Our people are proud of Dalal [Al-Mughrabi], especially since this woman and sister was an outstanding pioneer of the Palestinian struggle and activity for the sake of the people and the homeland.
Al-Arabiya
March 11, 2018
Al Arabiya has received rare photos of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during his childhood, showing him with his sister and his brother Fathi. It is yet unknown exactly when the photos were taken, but sometime after Arafat's mother, Zahwa, passed away leaving the young Palestinian to be raisedÃâà...
International Middle East Media Center
March 10, 2018
All of the street names that have not been approved, Adalah: the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel reports, bear the names of Palestinian leaders, such as Mahmoud Darwish, Yasser Arafat, and Umm al-Fahm's former mayors. Attorney for Adalah Sawsan Zaher emphasizes that under IsraeliÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
March 10, 2018
Abbas was repeating the mistake made by the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Arafat incomprehensibly thought he could play the conflict to his advantage but discovered it wasn't that simple. There is one thing the Palestinians cannot do anything to change and that isÃâà...
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
March 9, 2018
In contrast to Yasser Arafat, whose image among the Palestinian public was that of a modest leader who made do with very little, Mahmoud Abbas is perceived as a corrupt hedonist. Very recently, he purchased a new airplane for $50 million for his trips around the world. Several months ago, MahmoudÃâà...
http://hamodia.com
March 9, 2018
Arab rights group Adallah has demanded that the Interior Ministry honor a request by United Arab List MK Yussuf Jubran that the Ministry approve the renaming of a street in the city after arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat. The group made its demand in a letter to Interior Minister Rabbi Aryeh Deri and StateÃâà...
The Times
February 20, 2018
It was once suggested in a national newspaper that Kevin Cahill — from Kells in Meath — playing for Nemo Rangers in Cork was like 'the Star of David flying from Yasser Arafat's house'. That was back in the early 2000s when Meath and Cork still had a simmering rivalry, though it is a long time since thatÃâà...
Haaretz
February 14, 2018
When Ariel Sharon was Israel's defense minister he ordered the Israeli army to shoot down a passenger plane if it was confirmed that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was on board. Now, the Israeli author of the report has revealed the handwritten notes greenlighting the Israel Defense Force to shoot downÃâà...
Greater Kashmir
February 11, 2018
Lays wreath at Yasser Arafat's mausoleum. The mausoleum complex consists of Arafat''s burial chamber, a prayer pavilion and landscaped gardens - all situated in a 6,550 sq. m. site.
Economic Times
February 10, 2018
RAMALLAH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid a wreath at the mausoleum of iconic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, in his first engagement on a historic visit to Palestine. Modi, the first Indian Prime Minister to make an official visit to Palestine, flew in a Jordanian army helicopter straight from AmmanÃâà...
Middle East Media Research Institute
February 8, 2018
On December 2, 2017, a faction named after "the martyr Nidal Al-'Amoudi"[1] within the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced the establishment of "The Martyr Yasser Arafat Base, the first Fatah movement military base in the Gaza Strip." According to the announcement, the base is intended for the training ofÃâà...
India Today
February 8, 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday will visit the Yasser Arafat museum when he lands in Ramallah for a day's visit to pay his tributes to the tallest leader of the Palestinian National Movement who rests at the very same premises. The Yasser Arafat museum was opened to the public only recently asÃâà...
Tablet Magazine
February 6, 2018
An Italian magazine published excerpts from former PLO leader Yasser Arafat's diaries this weekend, revealing evidence of a mutual non-aggression pact between the PLO and Italy. The excerpts also contain details about “lying to help former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi avoid fraud charges, hisÃâà...
Haaretz
February 3, 2018
He gave me their phone numbers, and then asked a stunning question: “Why don't you meet with Yasser Arafat?” He told me that it was possible to make phone calls between the two parts of Beirut, because the main phone company branch was in the western part of the city, under PLO control. He gave meÃâà...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
An historic handshake between two old adversaries - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat - created a rare moment of hope for an end to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. In September 1993, after weeks of secret negotiations, an interim peaceÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
December 31, 1999
Another new museum is the Yasser Arafat Museum in the center of Ramallah, which houses a museum of Palestinian history with an emphasis on the life of the former Palestinian leader. The gleaming white modern edifice incorporates the bunker where he spent the last years of his life under siege,Ãâà...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
RAMALLAH, February 6, 2018 (WAFA) – The Yasser Arafat Foundation said on Tuesday that it will sue any party that stole or claimed possession of any part of the notebooks of the late Palestinian leader. The Foundation specified the Italian L'Espresso magazine for publishing on Thursday what it claimedÃâà...
