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Arafat

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Ar·a·fat  (r-ft, är-fät), Yasir also Yasser Originally Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat (As Qudwa al-Hussaeini). 1929-2004.
Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization who in 1996 was elected the first president of the Palestinian Authority, the newly formed Palestinian self-rule government. He shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
Arafat [ˈærəfæt]
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(Placename) a hill in W Saudi Arabia, near Mecca: a sacred site of Islam, visited by pilgrims performing the hajj Also called Jabal ar Rahm
Arafat2
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(Biographies / Arafat, Yasser (1929 M, Palestinian, POLITICS: statesman) Yasser (ˈjæsə). born 1929, Palestinian leader; cofounder of Al Fatah (1956), leader from 1968 of the Palestine Liberation Organization, president of the Palestinian National Authority from 1996: signed a peace agreement with Israel (1993); Nobel peace prize 1994 with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin
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Noun1.ArafatArafat - Palestinian statesman who was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1929-2004)
Yasser Arafat


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Twenty years before he joined Bill Clinton and Yitzhak Rabin in Washington for that famous handshake--and proceeded to become Clinton's most frequent foreign guest at the White House--Yasser Arafat planned and directed the murder of an American ambassador and his deputy chief of mission.
How Arafat Got Away with Murder; The State Department covered up his ... by Johnson, Scott W. / The Weekly Standard
Satloff may be unaware that on an official visit to Washington in 1998, the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat expressed a strong desire to visit the Holocaust museum, but his request was rejected by the museum.
Arafat and the Holocaust by Safieh, Afif / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
In fact, Oslo's acceptance of Arafat was intended by Israel to marginalize Hamas and have it disarmed.
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