Arafat in a sentence

Arafat's sister Inam stated in an interview with Arafat's biographer, British historian Alan Hart, that Arafat was heavily beaten by his father for going to the Jewish quarter in Cairo and attending religious services.

Suha Arafat, the widow of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, has apologised to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its people on behalf of Palestinians who protested the latter's peace accord with Israel.

A few years previously, Barak told the staff, he had conceived of a complicated plan to kill Arafat, but it had not gotten the green light from the prime minister because Arafat’s name had been removed from the list of candidates for assassination.

Arafat had a deteriorating relationship with his father; when he died in 1952, Arafat did not attend the funeral, nor did he visit his father's grave upon his return to Gaza.

Karsh, Arafat's War, 72. For this reason, critics of Arafat claim that he put his desire to destroy the Jewish state above his dream of building an autonomous Palestinian state.

Watt finds Arafat's arguments "not entirely convincing", while Meir J. Kister has contradicted the arguments of Arafat and Ahmad.

Yasser Arafat and the PLO Yasser Arafat main The PLO has complex, often contradictory attitudes toward the peace process.

During the first Iraq War (1990-91), PLO leader Yasser Arafat sided with Saddam Husein and suffered international isolation when Husein was humiliated by the US-led coalition armies.

Imad Faluji, the Palestinian Authority communications minister, later admitted that the intifada had been planned months earlier after Yasser Arafat’s return from peace talks at Camp David, where he rejected Israel’s offer of statehood.

In 1994, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East.

In 2008, another Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, tried again with Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas.

In July, 1973, the Mossad killed his brother, Ahmed, mistakenly thinking he was Ali Hassan Salameh, one of Arafat’s top men, dubbed “The Red Prince” due to the blood he spilled.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat were also present.

Mr. Arafat never abandoned reticence.

Nearby is the office of the late Mr. Arafat's aging successor, Mahmoud Abbas, whose lack of a succession plan is precipitating a leadership crisis.

The Ambassador believes that the only course is for both sides to come together under the banner of Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO).

The anti-Semite Arafat, by my guess, never truly intended to reach a peace deal.

The person identified as Yasin Arafat, alias Masud Hasan, was arrested on Sunday night.

Why was Shimon Peres anxious to have Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the terrorist leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, shake hands in front of President Bill Clinton?

Yet by virtue of Oslo, Arafat was rescued from political obscurity and welcomed into the diplomatic world.