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During the Camp David summit in 2000—an attempt by President Bill Clinton to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a two-state solution—former PLO chief Yasser Arafat asserted that ...

The 89-year-old veteran of the Palestinian struggle was once seen as a more moderate successor to the longtime national figurehead Yasser Arafat. But he’s now widely seen as merely clinging to ...

Many Palestinians and many in the Arab world were not only disillusioned by legendary Fatah leader Yasser Arafat, but they were even disgusted with his weak-kneed approach to Israel, and also in ...

After Israel won the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), headed by Yasser Arafat, moved to Jordan. From there it carried out cross-border attacks on Israel and ...

After Israel won the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), headed by Yasser Arafat, moved to Jordan. From there it carried out cross-border attacks on Israel and ...

DUBAI, April 7 (Reuters) - Arab states formally support the Palestinian cause but security, regional and sectarian tensions have strained their ties with the Palestinians scattered across the ...

The general of the city of the time was Yasser Arafat, who was championing the Palestinian cause. Arafat sought to fight on for another six months before taking a decision over what to do next, ...

Official PA TV newsreader: "On behalf of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul laid a wreath of flowers on the grave of [former PLO Chairman and PA President] Martyr ...

It was enabled and implemented by a coalition of communist and Muslim countries. In 1974, Yasser Arafat, arch-terrorist who ordered the murder of an American ambassador and was responsible for the ...