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	Yasir Arafat - MSN Encarta
		Yasir Arafat (1929-2004), president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 1996 to 2004 and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004.
		Arafat was born in either Egypt or Jerusalem—historical accounts vary—and raised in Jerusalem, Egypt, and the Gaza area.
		After several months of negotiations, Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin witnessed the signing of a historic agreement on September 13, 1993, in Washington, D.C. Their famous handshake at a White House reception was viewed as a sign of Arafat’s transition from terrorist to peacemaker.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560094/Arafat_Yasir.html (974 words)

	MidEast Web - Biography - Yasser Arafat - Chairman of the PLO
		Arafat was apparently greatly influenced by one of his teachers, Majid Halaby, who gave him the nickname Yasir, because of his supposed resemblance to Yasir al Birah, a Palestinian leader killed by the British in the Arab revolt.
		Arafat and the PLO eventually found their way to Beirut, which remained the center of PLO operations against Israel until 1982.In the 70s, the PLO came to be widely recognized as the only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and Arafat was recognized as the leader of the Palestinians.
		Arafat was elected by the Central Council of the PLO as the first President of the State of Palestine on April 2, 1989.
	www.mideastweb.org /bio-arafat.htm (1922 words)

	Yasir Arafat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Arafat is able to switch character in the blink of an eye, and takes advantage of this ability to advance his goals within the Palestinian movement and in his efforts to win recognition and support among leaders of the world, in Israeli public opinion, and in world public opinion.
		Arafat never bothered to apologize to those who had to wait, nor did he mention the late hour, as if it were obvious that it is not easy to get an interview with such an exalted personage, and the path to meeting with him is long and difficult.
		Arafat is not characterized (in the past as well as in the present) by orderly, bureaucratic work that includes teamwork, listening to various opinions, discussions about long-term policy, clarifying alternatives, determining defined objectives, etc. Arafat’s management style includes by tactics that change from one moment to another, according to data.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/yasir_arafat.htm (19220 words)

	CNN.com - Leaders gather in Egypt for Arafat's funeral - Nov 11, 2004
		Arafat's body is then expected to be taken for burial Friday to the West Bank city of Ramallah aboard an Egyptian military helicopter, the spokesman said.
		Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, along with Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, for their work on the Oslo accords, seen at the time as a breakthrough that could lead to an independent Palestinian state and a permanent peace.
		Arafat is survived by his widow, whom he married in 1991, and their daughter, Zahwa, who was born in 1995.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/11/arafat.main/index.html (929 words)

	Yasser Arafat - Biography
		She died when Yasir, as he was called, was five years old, and he was sent to live with his maternal uncle in Jerusalem, the capital of the British Mandate of Palestine.
		Arafat never mentions his father, who was not close to his children.
		Arafat sought to build a similar organisation in Lebanon, but this time was driven out by an Israeli military invasion.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/arafat-bio.html (1041 words)

	Yasser Arafat
		According to Arafat and other sources, he was born in Jerusalem; however, French biographers, Christophe Boltanski and Jihan El-Tahri revealed in their 1997 book, Les sept vies de Yasser Arafat, that he was actually born in Cairo, Egypt, and that is where his birth certificate was registered.
		Arafat’s statement was supposed to reflect a shift from one of the PLO’s primary aims — the destruction of Israel (as in the Palestinian National Covenant) — toward the establishment of two separate entities, an Israeli state within the 1949 armistice lines and a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
		However, on April 2, 1989, Arafat was elected by the Central Council of the Palestine National Council (the governing body of the PLO) to be the president of the proclaimed State of Palestine, an entity which laid claim to the whole of Palestine as defined by the British Mandate.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/arafat.html (4778 words)

	CNN.com - Palestinian leader Arafat dies at 75 - Nov 11, 2004
		Arafat was first elected head of the PLO in 1969, and by 1974, Arab leaders recognized the group as "the sole legitimate representative" of the Palestinian people.
		In 1994, Arafat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, for their work on the Oslo accords, seen at the time as a breakthrough toward an independent Palestinian state and a permanent peace with Israel.
		Arafat is survived by his wife, Suha Tawil, whom he married in 1991, and their daughter, Zahwa, who was born in 1995.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/10/arafat.obit/index.html (984 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Arafat was born in 1929 to a relatively well-to-do merchant family and was given the
		That declaration was Arafat's ticket to a kinder US perception of him and the PLO, but hardly served his image among other Palestinian faction leaders, who saw his approach as an insult to the Palestinian struggle for independence.
		Arafat's compound was frequently bombed and his office was targeted by Israeli tanks on several occasions.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/8870E2AA-B4F7-43FB-B1E7-21B6D1BA8AE7.htm (1371 words)

	Arafat, Yasir on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Disillusionment with Arafat's leadership within the Palestinian parliament, however, led it in 2003 to establish the post of prime minister in a largely unsuccessful attempt to reduce his power in the months before his death.
		Although Arafat brought international attention and support to the Palestinian cause, he was ultimately unable to secure an independent state, and at his death left behind a PLO that was divided within and challenged from without by other Palestinian groups (especially Hamas).
		Face-off: two old enemies, Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat, symbolize the reasons why it is so difficult for the Israelis and the Palestinians to make peace--and why so many on both sides see the use of force as the...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/arafaty1.asp (882 words)

	AllRefer.com - Yasir Arafat (Middle Eastern History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Yasir Arafat[yAsEr´ Ar´AfAt; –sur] Pronunciation Key, 1929–;, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the coordinating body for Palestinian organizations, and head of Al Fatah, the largest group in the PLO.
		Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin shared the 1994 Nobel peace prize for the 1993 accord.
		In 1999, Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak signed an agreement to finalize their borders and determine the status of Jerusalem by 2000.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/ArafatY.html (468 words)

	Yassir Arafat: 1929-2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Arafat took control of the violence from afar, and it was mainly due to Fatah forces in the West Bank that the anti-Israel terror and civil unrest could be maintained.
		Instead, unprecedented incitement from Arafat's official PA media and school textbooks, and active and passive PA support for terrorist groups led to a string of suicide bombings in the mid-1990s that killed scores of Israeli civilians.
		Arafat's colleague Faisal al-Husseini was even more explicit, describing the Oslo process as a 'Trojan Horse' designed to promote the strategic goal of 'Palestine from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea' ― that is, a Palestine in place of Israel.
	www.honestreporting.com /articles/45884734/critiques/Yassir_Arafat_1929-2004.asp (2225 words)

	Yasir Arafat — FactMonster.com
		The PLO won wide support among Palestinians and third-world nations during the 1970s and 80s, although it was weakened by internal divisions.
		A 1995 agreement called for self-rule for all Arab cities and villages in the West Bank by 1996; Arafat was elected president of the Palestinian-controlled territory in 1996.
		Disillusionment with Arafat's leadership within the Palestinian parliament, however, led it in 2003 to establish the post of prime minister in a largely unsuccessful attempt to reduce his power in the months before his death.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0804490.html (508 words)

	"Arafat, Yassir", Yasser Arafat - The Peace FAQ
		Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo in 1929.
		Palestine was born on the shores of the Nile.
		Yasser Arafat was born in 1929 in Jerusalem.
	www.peacefaq.com /arafat.html (4654 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Yasser Arafat
		Arafat created his own myths, beginning with his birthplace, insisting it was Jerusalem.
		Arafat was often a hated guest in the countries where he chose to operate.
		Arafat was rushed to a hospital in Paris for treatment.
	www.cbc.ca /news/obit/arafat (684 words)

	FOXNews.com - Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat Dies - U.S. & World
		Arafat's body will then be flown by helicopter to his Ramallah compound, called the Muqata, for services and burial in a mausoleum later in the day.
		Arafat's widow, Suha, wearing fl coat and pants, stifled sobs as the Palestinian flag-draped coffin of her 75-year-old husband was carried off a military helicopter to an official French aircraft.
		Arafat was flown to a French military hospital in Clamart, outside of Paris, on Oct. 29 after his health began deteriorating.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,138229,00.html (2319 words)

	CAMERA: Yasir Arafat's Timeline of Terror
		A Knight-Ridder/Tribune timeline of Arafat's life that appeared in Newsday only mentions terror once, in 2001: “Blamed for not controlling terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas, other radicals.” Typical of many of the flawed timelines, it implies only that Arafat failed to control terror, not that he was actively involved in funding and supporting it.
		In order to report on Arafat's history objectively, one must include his decades-long involvement in terror, his goal of destroying Israel, and his siphoning of hundreds of millions of dollars from money donated to help the Palestinian people that went instead into his own private accounts.
		Yasir Arafat is known to many as the “father of modern terrorism.” Below is a timeline of some of the key events of his life and terrorist acts with which he was associated.
	www.camera.org /index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=11&x_article=795 (2920 words)

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		Arafat claims credit for the results of the Khartoum Conference in which all the Arab dictators and the PLO unanimously voted to reject Israel's offer to return much of the land it had occupied as a result of the war in exchange for peace.
		Arafat was an honored guest at the UN just 18 months after his henchmen had taken Israeli athletes hostage at the Munich Olympic Games and murdered them, and despite the fact that his appearance in military dress and his militaristic message fundamentally contradicted the bylaws, rules, and aims of the institution.
		Arafat's response, knowing Israel's sensitivity to civilian casualties, was to declare that he and his terrorist forces would continue to use the Lebanese as human shields, and turn Beirut into another "Stalingrad." The term was a calculated red flag for his leftwing supporters around the world.
	www.discoverthenetworks.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=650 (13743 words)

	Andrew C. McCarthy on Yasser Arafat on National Review Online
		Arafat's formative years were thus spent in a milieu of sectarian violence, annealed in a hatred for Jews that, far from ever subsiding, propelled him.
		While Arafat's mantel as the "Father of Palestine" is dubious given that he is singularly responsible for the failure of a Palestinian nation to emerge, his credentials as the "Father of Modern Terrorism" are solid.
		Arafat also failed to honor, despite incessant pleading by Clinton administration figures, a commitment that the Palestinian National Charter would be amended to remove clauses calling for the destruction of Israel.
	www.nationalreview.com /mccarthy/mccarthy200411120827.asp (3509 words)

	Yasir Arafat
		Yasir Arafat was born Mohammed Abed Ar'ouf Arafat, in Cairo.
		Arafat was one of the first Palestinians to advocate the use of terror activities against Israel.
		In what many think was his biggest mistake, Arafat refused Israel's offer of almost 95% of the West Bank, he was unwilling to give up the Palestinian right of return.
	www.multied.com /bio/people/arafat.html (244 words)

	Yasser Arafat
		Yasir Arafat, born in Jerusalem in 1929, is the President of Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which controls the Palestinian territories in Gaza and on the West Bank since January 1996,and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 1968.
		After then Arafat returned to Palestine where he met with a group of Palestinian activists and founded Fateh Movement which launched its first operation on the 1st of January 1965 and Arafat became the head of the movement.
		Arafat originally sought to establish a secular Palestinian state and was widely recognized as president for the Palestinian people.
	www.earlham.edu /~pss/yasser_arafat.htm (830 words)

	Amazon.com: Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography: Books: Barry M. Rubin,Judith Colp Rubin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Suggesting that Iran (the source of arms bought by Arafat) is "allies to a degree with the forces of Usama bin Ladin" without so much as a footnote undermines their credibility somewhat, but does not alter their central point-that Arafat is a bad leader and a worse peace partner.
		Going back to the early 70's Arafat freely spoke of the idea of establishing a presence on some portion of the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan by any means and then using it as a base from which to attack, demoralize, and eventually destroy the Jewish State.
		Arafat was indeed a difficult man for Israel to make a deal with, but blaming him for the occupation caused by Israel's military aggression and biblical claims to Palestinian land is ridiculous.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195166892?v=glance (2302 words)

	Yasir Arafat — Infoplease.com
		Yasir Arafat, 1998 People in the News - Yasir Arafat, Palestinian leader, and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, brokered a...
		Face-off: two old enemies, Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat, symbolize the reasons why it is so difficult for the Israelis and the Palestinians......
		Arafat Rebounds (Again): Far from being sidelined, the Palestinian leader is tightening his grip on power.(Yasir Arafat)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0804490.html (616 words)

	Palestinians set Jan. 9 for elections - Yasser Arafat - MSNBC.com
		Arafat, who died Thursday, led the Palestinians for four decades and refused to appoint a successor.
		Barghouti is perhaps the strongest candidate to oust Arafat’s old guard of supporters, and many believe him to be the only leader capable of unifying squabbling Palestinian factions.
		In the aftermath of Arafat’s death, Palestinian officials have expressed hope for new peace movements in the region.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6402008 (913 words)

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