Yasser Arafat
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Love Him or Hate Him? Arafat's Legacy Complex January 20, 2021
RAMALLAH, West Bank – On the 14th anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, the iconic Palestinian leader’s legacy remains riddled with controversy.Arafat died on 11 November 2004 in disputed circumstances, after embodying the Palestinian struggle for se...
Arab Take on PLO From Founding to Arafat's Death May 28, 2020
In 1948, the state of Israel was proclaimed. Palestine was lost.Sixteen years later, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was founded.Made up of different factions, the PLO has been at the heart of the struggle to regain Palestine ever since.T...
Did Arafat Really Die of Natural Causes? November 12, 2018
In his musical-comedy film, The Court Jester, Danny Kaye amused us with the tongue twisting line, “the pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle.”The long-running non-musical Palestinian theater of the absurd about who employed the pois...
Who and What Killed Arafat? November 10, 2017
What, or who, killed Yasser Arafat? The rapid decline of the 75-year-old Palestinian leader's health, the refusal of his wife and authorities at the French military hospital where he died last Thursday to release his medical records and Israel's thre...
