Yasser Arafat
✓ Source-basedfallingPalestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
in EgyptHe led the Palestinian national movement for thirty-five years - from guerrilla warfare and exile across Cairo, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia, to the Nobel Peace Prize, to house arrest in Ramallah. Palestinians call him a martyr. Israelis called him a terrorist.
Also inDeutsch
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In their own words 10
Amanpour: Secretary of State Colin Powell has spoken to you, I understand. He has also spoken publicly. He called on you to rein in the violence.
Exchange with CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour (29 March 2002) during Operation Defensive Shield
This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.
On Palestinian Authority Television (15 January 2002).
The PLO will now concentrate on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps... We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a Palestinian state.
In a speech to Arab diplomats in Stockholm as quoted in the Jerusalem Post (23 February 1996).
Awards 23
In their orbit 7
Connected to Yasser 6
Maroun BagdadiAlso in Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt (1977)
François HollandeAlso won Order of Ouissam Alaouite
Fidel CastroAlso won Grand Collar of the Order of Good Hope
Stephen HawkingAlso won Princess of Asturias Awards
Xi JinpingAlso won Order of the State of Palestine
Mikhail GorbachevAlso won Princess of Asturias Award for International CooperationAbout this person
Born in Cairo around August 1929, Arafat studied at the University of King Fuad I, where he absorbed Arab nationalist ideas and fought alongside the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. After the Arab defeat, he served as president of the General Union of Palestinian Students from 1952 to 1956. In the late 1950s he co-founded Fatah, a paramilitary organization launching attacks on Israel from neighboring Arab states. By 1969 he was elected chair of the Palestinian National Council. Military clashes with Jordan's King Hussein forced Fatah into Lebanon in the early 1970s, where it fought in the civil war and drew Israeli invasions in 1978 and 1982. From 1983 he operated out of Tunisia, shifting from armed struggle to negotiation: in 1988 he acknowledged Israel's right to exist and pursued a two-state solution. The 1993 Oslo Accords brought him the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Rabin and Peres in 1994, and he returned to Gaza to lead the Palestinian Authority. The 2000 Camp David Summit failed. Confined to his Ramallah compound by Israeli forces, he fell into a coma and died on 11 November 2004. Russian and French investigators found no foul play; a Swiss
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