Despite Rabin’s long personal history as a famed and often ruthless military commander in the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israeli Wars ...

He continued: “The reason is not because it offered a compromise solution but because we actually inverted our own legitimacy with the PLO… We handed a Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat ...

In 1994, Yasser Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, alongside Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. But instead of peace, Israel received deception, betrayal, and bloodshed.

And so, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), arrived at the United Nations headquarters in New York in 1974 and spoke of peace. His “dream,” he said, was to live in ...

The grievance narrative fed and nourished over the decades by Yasser Arafat has had murderous consequences You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.

Pictures of Andrew Cuomo schmoozing with then-Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in 2000 are back in the spotlight now that the ex-governor is making a comeback bid for mayor.

The nickname Yasir or Yasser means “easy-going” in Arabic. Arafat acquired it as a teenager. Arafat’s alias, Abu Ammar, was adopted in the mid 1960s. 1950s – After graduating from college ...