Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (
August 24,
1929 –
November 11,
2004; ), popularly known as Yasser Arafat, was a
Palestinian guerrilla soldier and diplomat. As
Chairman of the
Palestine Liberation Organization and
President of the
Palestinian National Authority, Arafat continuously fought with Israeli forces in the name of Palestinian self-determination. Arafat spent much of his life leading the moderate
Fatah organization/political party, which he founded between 1958–1960. Originally opposed to Israel's existence, he modified his position in 1988 when he accepted
UN Security Council Resolution 242. Arafat was constantly surrounded by controversy, as in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Fatah faced off with
Jordan in a civil war. Forced out of Jordan and into Lebanon, Arafat and Fatah were the targets of
Israel's 1978 and 1982 invasions of that country. Arafat was said to be a key planner of the
Black September organization's murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the
1972 Summer Olympics. The majority of the Palestinian people – regardless of political ideology or faction – viewed him as a heroic
freedom fighter and
martyr who symbolized the national aspirations of his people. However, many Israelis have described him as an unrepentant
terrorist.
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Jassir Arafat
Jassir Arafat (* 4.,
24. oder 27. August 1929 in
Kairo,
Ägypten; †
11. November 2004 in
Clamart,
Département Hauts-de-Seine,
Frankreich),
arab. ياسر عرفات (Yāsir ʿArafāt), ursprünglich Muhammad ʿAbd ar-Rahmān ʿAbd ar-Ra'ūf ʿArafāt al-Qudwa
al-Husaini, arab. محمد عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, genannt Abū ʿAmmār, arab.: أبو عمار),
kunya: Abu ʿAmmar (أبو عمّار; ʾAbū ʿAmmār) war ein
palästinensischer Politiker und
Staatsmann und vom 12. Februar 1996 bis zu seinem Tod am 11. November 2004 Präsident der
palästinensischen Autonomiegebiete. 1994 erhielt er den
Friedensnobelpreis.
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Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat