Yasser Arafat: Difference between revisions

Line 10:

|crimes = [[War crimes]], [[terrorism]], political extremism

|hobby = }}

{{Quote|Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.|Yasser Arafat, quoted in ''The Times'', UK (5 August 1980).}}

{{Quote|Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.|Yasser Arafat, quoted in ''The Times'', UK (5 August 1980).}}'''Yasser Arafet''' (August 24th, 1929 – November 11th, 2004) was a Palestinian political leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and leader of the Fatah political party and former paramilitary group, which he founded in 1959. Arafat spent much of his life fighting against Israel in the name of Palestinian self-determination and the establishment of the State of Palestine.

'''Yasser Arafet''' (August 24th, 1929 – November 11th, 2004) was a Palestinian political leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and leader of the Fatah political party and former paramilitary group, which he founded in 1959. Arafat spent much of his life fighting against Israel in the name of Palestinian self-determination and the establishment of the State of Palestine.

Arafat was born to Palestinian parents in Cairo, Egypt, where he spent most of his youth and studied at the University of King Fuad I. While a student, he embraced Arab nationalist and anti-Zionist ideas. Opposed to the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, he fought alongside the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Returning to Cairo, he served as president of the General Union of Palestinian Students from 1952 to 1956. In the latter part of the 1950s he co-founded Fatah, a paramilitary organisation seeking the disestablishment of Israel and its replacement with a Palestinian state. Fatah operated within several Arab countries, from where it launched attacks on Israeli targets. In the latter part of the 1960s Arafat's profile grew; in 1967 he joined the PLO and in 1969 was elected chair of the Palestinian National Council (PNC). Fatah's growing presence in Jordan resulted in military clashes with King Hussein's Jordanian government and in the early 1970s it relocated to Lebanon. There, Fatah assisted the Lebanese National Movement during the Lebanese Civil War and continued its attacks on Israel, resulting in it becoming a major target of Israel's 1978 and 1982 invasions.

@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 |crimes = [[War crimes]], [[terrorism]], political extremism
 |hobby = }}
-{{Quote|Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.|Yasser Arafat, quoted in ''The Times'', UK (5 August 1980).}}
+{{Quote|Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.|Yasser Arafat, quoted in ''The Times'', UK (5 August 1980).}}'''Yasser Arafet''' (August 24<sup>th</sup>, 1929 – November 11<sup>th</sup>, 2004) was a Palestinian political leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and leader of the Fatah political party and former paramilitary group, which he founded in 1959. Arafat spent much of his life fighting against Israel in the name of Palestinian self-determination and the establishment of the State of Palestine.
-'''Yasser Arafet''' (August 24<sup>th</sup>, 1929 – November 11<sup>th</sup>, 2004) was a Palestinian political leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), and leader of the Fatah political party and former paramilitary group, which he founded in 1959. Arafat spent much of his life fighting against Israel in the name of Palestinian self-determination and the establishment of the State of Palestine.
 Arafat was born to Palestinian parents in Cairo, Egypt, where he spent most of his youth and studied at the University of King Fuad I. While a student, he embraced Arab nationalist and anti-Zionist ideas. Opposed to the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, he fought alongside the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Returning to Cairo, he served as president of the General Union of Palestinian Students from 1952 to 1956. In the latter part of the 1950s he co-founded Fatah, a paramilitary organisation seeking the disestablishment of Israel and its replacement with a Palestinian state. Fatah operated within several Arab countries, from where it launched attacks on Israeli targets. In the latter part of the 1960s Arafat's profile grew; in 1967 he joined the PLO and in 1969 was elected chair of the Palestinian National Council (PNC). Fatah's growing presence in Jordan resulted in military clashes with King Hussein's Jordanian government and in the early 1970s it relocated to Lebanon. There, Fatah assisted the Lebanese National Movement during the Lebanese Civil War and continued its attacks on Israel, resulting in it becoming a major target of Israel's 1978 and 1982 invasions.