Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat was an Egyptian-born Palestinian who co-founded Fatah. This political movement and terror sponsor joined the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which became one of two dominant parties in Palestinian politics. Arafat was the PLO Chairman and President of the Palestinian Authority (PA) until his death in 2004. He is considered the father of Palestine, but also the father of Palestinian terrorism, and ruled as a brutal dictator over Palestinians.
Yasser Arafat was an Egyptian-born Palestinian who co- founded Fatah. This political movement and terror sponsor joined the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which became one of two dominant parties in Palestinian politics.
Arafat was the PLO Chairman and President of the Palestinian Authority (PA) until his death in 2004.
He is considered the father of Palestine, but also the father of Palestinian terrorism.
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YASSER ARAFAT
FATHER OF PALESTINIAN TERRORISM
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“We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion…. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.”
-Yasser Arafat
(1996 Stockholm speech)
CRITICAL MOMENTS IN
ARAFAT’S TERROR CAREER
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1965-1967: Numerous Fatah bomb attacks target Israeli villages, water pipes, railroads. Homes are destroyed, and Israelis are killed.
Feb. 4, 1969: Arafat is appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO.
May 1972: PFLP, part of the PLO, dispatches members of the Japanese Red Army to attack Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, killing 26. 17 were Puerto Rican Christians.
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September 5, 1972: 11 Israeli athletes are murdered at the Munich Olympics by a group calling themselves “Black September.” The troop was supposedly an arm of Fatah, which operated under Arafat’s direct command.
April 11, 1974: 11 are killed by Palestinian terrorists who attack an apartment building in Kiryat Shmona.
May 15, 1974: PLO terrorists from Lebanon hold 115 Israelis hostage in the Kibbutz Ma’alot school. They kill 22 Israeli children and 4 Israeli adults.
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June 9, 1974: The Palestinian National Council adopts a plan to establish a Palestinian state on any territory evacuated by Israel, to be used as a base of operations for destroying the country.
March 11, 1978 — Coastal Road Massacre:
Fatah terrorists, led by Dalal Mughrabi, take over a bus on the Haifa-Tel Aviv highway and kill 37 Israeli civilians, one American photographer, and 13 children.
Leon Klinghoffer. Photo Credit: American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History via Wikipedia
October 7, 1985: Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. Wheelchair- bound Leon Klinghoffer, age 69, is shot and thrown overboard. Intelligence reports note that instructions originated from Arafat’s Tunis headquarters.
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During the 1993 Oslo Accords, Arafat became President of the PA, established for Palestinians to democratically govern themselves. But elections were only held once during his rule, even though he was supposed to serve a three-year term.
Despite the Oslo peace agreement, Palestinian terror continued, and Arafat’s PA was “ineffectual in halting it – when not encouraging it outright” (Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review Online).
During Arafat’s time at the helm of the PA, he amassed a fortune totaling roughly $900 million from money diverted from public funds. He never abandoned his initial goal of destroying Israel.
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SOURCES
https://www.timesofisrael.com/suha- arafat-i-wish-id-never-married-him/
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yasser-arafat
Arafat was behind the Second Intifada, a five- year campaign of Palestinian terror starting in September 2000. This period is said to have begun spontaneously after then-opposition leader (later PM) Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism and the third holiest site in Islam.
This is not the case! According to Arafat’s wife, he told her to stay in Paris because he would start an intifada. Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-T Zahar said Arafat instructed him to carry out attacks in Israel after he felt negotiations with the Jewish state had failed.
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