Mahmoud Darwish's death highlights the fragmentation of Palestinian society
After the death of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat four years ago, it is difficult to think of another Palestinian, other than the poet Mahmoud Darwish, who could...
IT IS rare for Arab politicians enmeshed in the interminable business of seeking peace between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East to air their own version of events, especially in English or French. Marwan Muasher has tangled intimately with the...
Shimon Peras, then Defense Minister, became Prime Minister until 1996 when Benyamin Netanyahu was democratically elected because of the huge amounts of suicide bombings from 1995-1996 that resulted from Israeli territorial concessions especially...
One of the wisest pronouncements I have heard in my life was that of an Egyptian general, a few days after Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem.
We were the first Israelis to come to Cairo, and one of the things we were very curious about was:...
Background
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (محمد عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني) (August 24, 1929 – November 11, 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat, was a Palestinian leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, President of the Palestinian National Authority, and leader of the secular Fatah political party, which he founded 1959. Arafat spent much of his life fighting against Israel in the name of Palestinian self-determination. Originally opposed to Israel's existence, he modified his position in 1988 when he accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242.
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