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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 537

Yasser Arafat

Former US president Bill Clinton (R) speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2024, in New York City, December 4, 2024. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)
December 5, 2024, 7:51 pm
Bill Clinton: Young Americans shocked to learn Arafat turned down Palestinian state
If ‘you walk away from once in a lifetime peace opportunities, you can’t complain 25 years later when the doors aren’t all still open,’ says former US president
By ToI Staff
(L-R) PA President Mahmoud Abbas, Tunisian Foreign Affairs Minister Mouldi Kefi, and Fatah's ex-Secretary General Farouk Kaddumi hold hands shortly after the Abbas's arrival in Tunis, Tunisia, November 10, 2011. (Fethi Belaid/AFP)
August 23, 2024, 3:40 pm
Farouk Kaddumi, Fatah hardliner who opposed Oslo Accords, dies in Amman at 93
Kaddumi was among Fatah’s founders, supported realignment with Hamas; he served as the faction’s head before fallout with Abbas, whom he accused of killing Arafat
By ToI Staff
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during an interview with MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' program, aired May 9, 2024. (Screen capture: Youtube/NBC, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 11, 2024, 10:43 pm
Hillary Clinton: Anti-Israel protesters ‘don’t know very much’ about the Middle East
‘Propaganda is not education,’ says ex US secretary of state, slamming campus activists for ignorance of Palestinians’ rejection of husband Bill Clinton’s 2000 peace initiative
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
(L-R) Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, US President Bill Clinton, and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on September 13, 1993. (Wikipedia)
August 30, 2023, 1:58 pm
‘Difficult deal’: Declassified protocols show Oslo Accords okayed with marked wariness
30 years later, key cabinet quotes reveal Rabin, Peres feared Palestinians wouldn’t forgo terror, weren’t giving enough for Israeli concessions; Rabin foreshadowed own assassination
By Michael Bachner
A Gazan preschooler stomps on an Israeli flag at a graduation ceremony, at the Young Deer Kindergarten in Beit Hanoun, in footage posted from May 24 - May 27, 2023. (MEMRI screenshot)
May 29, 2023, 9:18 pm
Gaza preschoolers stage mock liberation of ‘Palestinian land’
Children armed with prop guns and dressed in military garb trample over Israeli flag and perform military exercises at ceremony, as parents clap
By Michael Horovitz
File: Weapons displayed on the ship Karine A, seized by Israel in the Red Sea in January 2002. (IDF Spokesman)
March 13, 2023, 5:48 pm
Israel releases octogenarian behind Karine A arms smuggling ship
Former Arafat aide Fuad Shubaki, who was oldest Palestinian inmate in Israeli prison, is sent to West Bank after serving 17 years for role in foiled Iranian weapons transfer
By Agencies
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Sept. 10, 2004. (AP Photo/Palestinian Authority, Hussein Hussein)
November 11, 2022, 5:50 pm
Decade-old testimony from PA probe into Arafat’s death leaked to Palestinian press
Outlets unveil accounts from top PA officials convinced of unproven claim that ex-leader was poisoned; source says leak aimed at settling scores amid Ramallah succession fight
By ToI Staff
Palestinians chant slogans and wave yellow Fatah movement flags during a rally marking the 18th anniversary of the death of Fatah founder and Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
November 11, 2022, 4:23 am
Tens of thousands attend rare Fatah rally in Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip
Rally commemorating anniversary of Arafat’s death passes without incident, though Gaza’s Hamas rulers have in the past blocked demonstrations in solidarity with Abbas’s party
By AP
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks as he meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, March 27, 2022, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
October 21, 2022, 8:56 am
In first since 2001, Israel said set to okay helicopters for flights by PA top brass
Israeli officials reportedly recommend allowing Abbas to hold two choppers, to be stationed in Jordan, in bid to strengthen his rule
By ToI Staff
Nasser al-Kidwa, right, former minister for foreign affairs of the Palestinian Authority, in Gaza City on September 24, 2022. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
September 27, 2022, 2:09 am
Arafat’s nephew returns to Gaza, mounting challenge against aging, unpopular Abbas
Nasser al-Kidwa builds support in terror-ruled Strip, calling Palestinian Authority ‘totalitarian’ and destructive, as PA’s rule appears increasingly tenuous
By AFP and ToI Staff
Then president of the United Nations Security Council and South Africa's deputy minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim shields his eyes from television lights during press briefing while the council breaks from a meeting on the Middle East, January 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
December 6, 2021, 3:59 pm
South African anti-apartheid, Palestinian rights advocate Ebrahim dies at 84
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, who was imprisoned in his home country before eventually rising to become a deputy minister, pressed his government to cut ties with Israel
By AFP and ToI Staff
File - Late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, right, and then-Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, in the West Bank seat of the PA, Ramallah, December 31, 2001. (AP Photo/Mohammed Rawas)
July 1, 2021, 3:39 pm
European Court of Human Rights refuses to hear case on Arafat’s death
Lawsuit brought by Palestinian leader’s widow and daughter alleged he died of polonium poisoning
By AFP
Nasser al-Kidwa in 2012 (photo credit: AP)
March 11, 2021, 3:51 pm
Abbas ousts Yasser Arafat’s nephew from Fatah as election race heats up
Senior official Nasser al-Qidwa has called for ‘radical change’ in the Palestinian Authority, plans to challenge the main Fatah slate in the upcoming legislative elections
By Aaron Boxerman
Anis Naccache, a Lebanese pro-Palestinian former terrorist notorious for his role in the 1975 OPEC hostage-taking in Vienna and the attempted assassination near Paris of Iran's former premier, during a demonstration outside the French embassy in the capital Beirut, April 30, 2010. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)
February 23, 2021, 12:07 pm
Former Fatah terrorist who recruited Hezbollah’s Mughniyeh dies of COVID-19
Anis Naccache dies in Syria after contracting virus; took part in deadly attacks on OPEC meeting and Iran’s PM as well as recruiting top commander in Lebanon terror group
By Agencies
Terrorist Ali Hassan Salameh, left, is seen with then Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in an undated photo (Courtesy)
January 29, 2021, 5:06 am
PA daily and Fatah Facebook page eulogize Munich terror mastermind as role model
Semi-official Fatah account calls Ali Hassan Salameh ‘a beacon on the path to liberation’; official PA newspaper hails a ‘martyr’ and ‘skilled leader’ in memorial article
By ToI Staff
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