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    Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman...
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  • refrain from hindering the operation of the Supreme Muslim Council. Yassir Arafat later developed a regular television interview speech in which he would...
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  • militant factions and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) led by Yassir Arafat. It resulted in the withdrawal of PLO and mostly ended their involvement...
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    Secretary of the Interior James Watt (misheard as "what") and PLO leader Yassir Arafat (misheard as "Yes sir"). In the 1988 film Rain Man, the film's titular...
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    in the Muqata'a headquarters of PLO leader Yassir Arafat, which was then besieged by Israel after Arafat refused to hand him over to Israel. As part...
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  • Yasser (redirect from Yassir)
    daughters Yassir Abdul-Mohsen, Iraqi footballer Yaser Salem Ali, Emirati footballer Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat (disambiguation)...
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  • was murdered by a terrorist on 12 June 2001 in a drive-by shooting. Yassir Arafat had declared a unilateral ceasefire a week before this attack, following...
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    suggest that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, like his predecessor Yassir Arafat, has used his position of power to line his own pockets as well as those...
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    known for crossing the lines during the Siege of Beirut to meet Yasser Arafat on 3 July 1982, the first time the Palestinian leader met with an Israeli...
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    insisted on a military solution left to form the Rejectionist Front, and Yassir Arafat took over the PLO leadership role. The Popular Front for the Liberation...
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    leader, Yassir Arafat, controlled the PLO's largest and most dominant faction, Fatah, effectively making him the strongman of the PLO. Arafat allowed...
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    the Palestinians in the West Bank and published the last interview Yassir Arafat gave, shortly before his death. Ohler has also worked as writer-in-residence...
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  • Beirut in 1982 during the 1982 Lebanon War. However he fell out with Yassir Arafat, head of Fatah and PLO, in May 1983. Muragha publicly complained over...
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    with the assistance of the Palestine Liberation Organization, after Yassir Arafat and Abu Jihad personally traveled to Tehran to secure a concession....
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    Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the Fatah of Yassir Arafat or the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF) of Samir Ghawshah and...
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    leader of the opposition. He told me there would be no deal because [Yassir] Arafat would not sign. I told myself that there was nothing to be done—these...
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    Palestinian national movement politically, and its leader, Egyptian-born Yassir Arafat, would become regarded as the leader of the Palestinian people. In 1969...
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    Random House. p. 80. ISBN 9781400064274. "Kamal Nasser (1924- 1973)". Yasser Arafat Foundation. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2023. Fischbach, Michael...
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  • Palestinians, who were members of the Black September offshoot of Yassir Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. Afif and four of his collaborators...
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  • thousands of Palestinian fighters under the command of PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat out of Southern Lebanon and West Beirut. Under international auspices...
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  • Front (Yakub faction). The Alliance opposed the Amman Agreement between Yassir Arafat and King Hussein in 1985. The Alliance was dissolved as PFLP and PLF...
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  • 43% of the vote and 45 seats. The 1996 president election was won by Yassir Arafat with 88.2% of the vote. Mahmoud Abbas gained 62.52% of the vote at the...
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    Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal. In 1989 he visited Yassir Arafat in Tunis. Arafat shared elements of his peace plan, and Sturgis was debriefed...
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    The description by one BBC correspondent reporting on the funeral of Yassir Arafat that she had been left with tears in her eyes led to other questions...
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    PLA was also deployed in Lebanon in 1976, after Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat had approached the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, to mend relations...
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  • school textbooks have changed or not changed under the leadership of Yassir Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas regarding the portrayal of peace and the 'Other'...
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    noun "bantustanization" was first used by Azmi Bishara in 1995, though Yassir Arafat had made the analogy earlier in peace talks to his interlocutors. Many...
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    from the names of Interior Secretary James Watt, Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat and Chinese leader Hu Yaobang. The comedy group The Credibility Gap...
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    Organization was not involved in the hijacking and Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat was ready to make peace. The day of his murder, October 11, Odeh had...
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    missions specifically designed to assassinate Palestinian leaders – Yassir Arafat, Abu Jihad and Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad). The Israelis were assisted by...
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