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	Yasser Arafat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arafat's statement indicated a shift from one of the PLO's primary aims — the destruction of Israel (as in the Palestinian National Covenant) — towards 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.
		Arafat's long personal and political survival was taken by most Western commentators as a sign of his mastery of asymmetric warfare and his skill as a tactician, given the extremely dangerous nature of politics of the Middle East and the frequency of assassinations.
		Arafat's ability to adapt to new tactical and political situations was perhaps exemplified by the rise of the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad organizations, Islamist groups espousing rejectionist opposition to Israel and employing new tactics such as "martyrdom operations" (also known as suicide bombings).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arafat (5274 words)

	Yassir Arafat
		In the 1990's Arafat came to be considered a pragmatic moderate, and by many foreign observers a wiser politician than his Israeli opponents.
		Towards the end of his life, Arafat played an unclear role on Palestinian politics, as his room for action was limited, much of the acting power came into the hands of prime ministers from 2003, and his own health was weak.
		At Christmas, Arafat is placed under virtual house arrest, as a retaliation for his meager cooperation in hunting down known Palestinian terrorists.
	i-cias.com /e.o/arafat.htm (1044 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 (4777 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 (939 words)

	Yasser Arafat - Biography
		Arafat never mentions his father, who was not close to his children.
		Arafat developed the PLO into a state within the state of Jordan with its own military forces.
		Arafat sought to build a similar organisation in Lebanon, but this time was driven out by an Israeli military invasion.
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1994/arafat-bio.html (1056 words)

	Yassir Arafat's Biography
		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.eretzyisroel.org /~jkatz/arafatbio.html (4192 words)

	Arafat scorns Abbas' efforts at Mideast peace talks - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arafat's remarks underscored a campaign by him and several of his ministers, legal advisers and the Palestinian media to portray Mr.
		Arafat was described yesterday as enraged that his deputy, Mr.
		Arafat is too tainted by his failure to curb suicide bombings and attacks on Israelis to negotiate.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20030606-123329-1068r.htm (596 words)

	CBC News: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dead
		Arafat would move his people closer to his ultimate goal of statehood, but it would not be something he would ever deliver.
		"Arafat's refusal to halt terrorism has blocked the path to peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians, alike, deepened regional instability, destroyed hope and trust between neighboring peoples, and cost the lives of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
		Palestinians had their first elections on Jan. 20, 1996, Arafat was elected president of the PA and 88 others were elected to a legislative body.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2004/11/10/arafatobit041110.html (825 words)

	KingsFans - Yassir Arafat Dies
		Arafat, 75, who has been a symbol of the Palestinians' struggle for independence, will be flown to Cairo for a funeral and then buried at his compound in Ramallah.
		In 1969 Arafat became the chairman of the executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, a nationalist group that advocated Palestinian statehood and pursued armed struggle with Israel.
		Arafat was a terrorist and a malignant problem for the Palestinians and everyone else on the planet.
	www.kingsfans.com /forums/showthread.php?t=951 (946 words)

	Arafat, the Nazi,
		Yasser Arafat is an exploiter of his own people, keeping them in squalor and perpetuating their hatreds while padding his own Swiss bank accounts.
		You might think that track record would be enough for Arafat to be targeted for termination or at least relegated to political obscurity once and for all as America and its allies wage an international war against terrorism.
		Arafat was, in fact, so close to al-Husseini that the young terrorist called him "uncle." Arafat's real name is Rahman Abdul Rauf el-Qudwa al-Husseini, though his actual blood relationship with al-Husseini is in question.
	www.netanyahu.org /arafatnazi.html (623 words)

	Arafat's Squalid End - How he wasted his last 30 years. By Christopher Hitchens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By the time Arafat had left the podium of the United Nations (holster at his side, olive branch in his hand) in 1974, it was widely understood that everything since the Balfour Declaration had implicitly called for a two-state solution.
		You will see Arafat up close, as the symbol of his people, the prince of procrastination, the acme of corruption, the master of deceit, the demagogue of "resistance," and the consummate artist of the double-deal.
		In cold fact, Arafat was protected from "martyrdom" at Israel's hands, as he well knew, by an edict of President Bush to Sharon.
	slate.msn.com /id/2109860 (1257 words)

	Palestinians consider life after Arafat \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arafat's illness, the fear is that a bad situation could get much worse once he can no longer serve as a magnet of loyalty for diverse interests and groups.
		Arafat, who was chairman of the PLO and head of the Fatah movement in addition to president of the PA, "is a factor for unity," adds Mr.
		While Arafat is viewed by the US and Israel as the obstacle to Middle East peace, analysts say his removal from the equation will not spark a peace process because any successor would still be unable to accept Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1029/p01s04-wome.html (919 words)

	Yassir Arafat, 1929-2004
		Arafat and Fatah consolidated power through bribery, extortion and murder, and at the Palestinian National Congress in Cairo in February 1969, Arafat was appointed head of the PLO, a position he would never relinquish.
		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.
	focusonjerusalem.com /Yassir_Arafat.html (2305 words)

	Yassir Arafat 1929-2004
		The fact is that Arafat's decisions were not so much due to his personal preferences that they were the necessary response to his desperate attempts to preserve the lives of his people - those people who saw that he truly had their best interests at heart.
		When we consider the forces against which Arafat fought, adversaries of great evil and cunning, fanaticism, overweening ambition, and just plain ignorance, Arafat committed the greatest crime of all; a crime which it was impossible to forgive: he was a tolerant man with a just grievance, who attempted to find a middle way of peace.
		Arafat had been due to lie in state ahead of the burial, but the programme was disrupted by chaos at the compound, where thousands of mourners surged past security forces.
	www.signs-of-the-times.org /signs/arafat.htm (9732 words)

	Yassir Arafat
		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.
		Arafat had told an Arab audience in Stockholm in 1996, 'We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state.
		Estimates of the degree of Arafat's wealth differ, but are all staggering: In 2003, Forbes magazine listed Arafat in its annual list of the wealthiest 'Kings, Queens and Despots,' with a fortune of 'at least $300 million.' Israeli and US officials estimate Arafat's personal holdings between $1-3 billion.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_current_yassir_arafat.php (2355 words)

	The Peace Encyclopedia: "Arafat, Yassir" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mohammed Abder Rauf Arafat al-Kudwa al-Husseini was born in Jerusalem in 1929 of Egyptian parents.
		Yassir Arafat also claimed to be born in Jerusalem but was actually born in Cairo, August 29, 1929, named Mohammed Abdel Rahman al Qudwa al-Husseini.
		Most Jews feel a visit to by Arafat to the Holocaust Museum would be spitting and walking on the graves of the all those who died and all of their loved ones and all their Jewish children who will never be.
	www.yahoodi.com /peace/arafat.html (4519 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Arafat 'between life and death'
		She categorically denied persistent reports in the French and Israeli media that Mr Arafat was brain dead and was being kept alive on life support.
		A series of reports yesterday, saying that Mr Arafat had died, were denied by a spokesman for the Paris hospital at which the Palestinian leader is being treated.
		Since Mr Arafat was airlifted to the French military hospital from the West Bank last Friday, his exact condition has largely remained a mystery.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,1344520,00.html (810 words)

	Apathy, Inc: Yassir Arafat dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arafat will not be a Washington, of course.
		Arafat also helped create the oppotunity for a politcal, two state peace.
		Arafat was a leader in the terror war that the situation spawned, but he was also a leader in the peace process, and a leader in chaging the Palestinian objective from the destruction of Israel to a two-state solution.
	www.apathyincorporated.com /archives/000436.html (605 words)

	Arafat's condition improving, aide says - World News - MSNBC.com
		On Monday, Arafat dictated a condemnation of a deadly Tel Aviv suicide bombing, a sign he was active.
		Arafat’s wife, Suha, used a cell phone to dictate her husband’s condemnation of the suicide bombing to the spokesman.
		Later, Arafat took the phone from his wife and asked Abu Rdeneh directly to make sure the statement was circulated.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6329315 (715 words)

	TIME.com: Arafat's Illness -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But Arafat has vowed to go down fighting against any attempt to remove him from the compound, and the Bush administration has restrained Israel from carrying out the threatened expulsion, on the grounds that such a move would be "unhelpful" to the pursuit of stability.
		If Arafat's condition proves to be terminal, the Palestinians will be forced to answer the long-deferred question of succession, and the running debate in Washington and Jerusalem over the prospects for pursuing a peace agreement without the aging Arafat will have been settled.
		The question of Arafat's succession is complicated by the fact that his power derives from the three separate offices he holds: Palestinian Authority president, PLO chairman and leader of the Fatah movement.
	www.time.com /time/world/article/0,8599,516827,00.html (764 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Yasser Arafat endorses Kerry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arafat deputy and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told WND in an exclusive interview that while "we do not involve ourselves in internal American politics," at the same time "our region has been sliding deeper and deeper into chaos because of certain policies over the past few years, and this needs to change."
		A prominent Arafat aide who asked that his name be withheld spoke to WorldNetDaily from Arafat's battered Ramallah compound.
		Indyk, who helped devise the 1993 Oslo Accords, was a driving force behind Clinton's assessment of Arafat as a statesman and urged Clinton to accept Arafat as the legitimate ruler of the Palestinians.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40988 (582 words)

	Diggers Realm: A Conspiracy And Propaganda Surrounding Yasser Arafat's Death
		The current very closely guarded state of Yasser Arafat's condition, I believe, is being specifically targeted to coincide with a date of importance in the Islamic calendar.
		By having Yasser Arafat be declared to have died on this day it could be used as propaganda in elevating him to a symbolic saint in the Muslim world.
		Arafat may have died a few days ago and the French and Palestinian Authority being involved in the cover-up of his death in order to have the benefit of somehow linking his death to an important day to keep the fight alive for Palestinians.
	www.diggersrealm.com /mt/archives/000366.html (658 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Yassir Arafat, 1929-2004 by HonestReporting.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arafat and Fatah consolidated power through bribery, extortion and murder, and at the Palestinian National Congress in Cairo in February 1969, Arafat was appointed head of the PLO ¯ a position he would never relinquish.
		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.
		Yet beyond the terrorism, extortion, embezzlement and intimidation lies Arafat's most unfortunate ongoing impact: The inculcation of murderous values in an entire generation of Palestinians, who have been educated ¯ under Arafat's direction ¯ to continue the fight of jihad against Israel, rather than compromise to end the decades-long conflict.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15921 (2150 words)

	Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1969, Arafat became chairman of the PLO's Executive Committee, a position he still holds.
		PLO Chairman Arafat publicly renounced terrorism in December 1988 on behalf of the PLO.
		Most senior government positions in the PA are held by individuals who are members of, or loyal to, Arafat's Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/plo.htm (432 words)

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