Posts Tagged: Yasser Arafat
Ahmed Jibril, Founder of Pro-Syrian Palestinian Guerrilla Group, Buried in Damascus
Palestinians turned out in Damascus on Friday to mourn Ahmed Jibril, whose Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command fought Israel in...
The Intifada Changed Everything. Will the Next Administration Care?
JNS.org - The world of fall 2000 seems like more than 20 years ago. It was before COVID-19, the idea of a president Donald Trump...
Thousands of Palestinians Mark 55th Fatah Anniversary With West Bank, Gaza Rallies
Thousands of Palestinians celebrated the nationalist Fatah party's 55th anniversary in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip this week, with rallies featuring music, speeches,...
Giant Palestinian Flag Unfurled on Wall of Jerusalem’s Old City
A giant Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) flag was draped over one of the walls of the Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday, drawing a strong rebuke...
Palestinians Still Coming Up with Theories of Who Supposedly ‘Killed’ Arafat — Including Mahmoud Abbas
It is the 15th anniversary of the timely death of arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat, and the Palestinian media is asking once again, "who killed Abu Ammar?"...
Aide Says Arafat Planned the Second Intifada as Early as 1997
Al Resalah has an interview with Bassam Abu Sharif, a political advisor to late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. According to Abu Sharif, the Oslo Accords were...
The Israel-Hamas Deal: Escape From Oslo
Both domestic and external opponents of the crystallizing deal between the Israeli government and Hamas view the nascent agreement as antithetical to the two-state solution....
On the 25th Anniversary of the Oslo Accords
JNS.org - Monday marks 25 years to the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The peace agreement was met...
Uri Avnery, First Israeli to Meet Arafat, Dies at 94
Uri Avnery, a left-wing peace activist who in 1982 became the first prominent Israeli to meet in public with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, died on...
PA Official Admits There Is No ‘Proof’ That Israel Poisoned Arafat
JNS.org - For years, the Palestinian Authority has been spreading the libel that Israel murdered Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat by poisoning him. This PA propaganda has...
When Arafat Threatened the World — and the World Applauded
There is one point that I made in a speech yesterday that I hadn't thought of before preparing for it. In 1974, after several years of airplane...
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell: America’s Support for Israel Has Never Wavered and Never Will
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell was honored on Wednesday by the World Jewish Congress with its annual Theodor Herzl award at a dinner...
Fatah Admits Its True Goals — but the Media Won’t Retweet
Palestinian officials and groups that are often deemed to be “moderates,” have once again been very clear about their desire to destroy Israel and forswear peace. But many...
End the False Israeli-Palestinian Parity
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to visit Jerusalem but not Ramallah has prompted much comment. The expectation of equal treatment goes back to the Oslo...
