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'''Yasser Arafat''' ([[Cairo]], [[Egypt]] 1929 - [[Paris]], [[France]] 2004), born "Al-Husseini al-Qudwa Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat", was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and President of the [[Palestinian National Authority]].
He got his degree of engineering at Faud University in 1956. In 1958 he and some friends founded Al-Fatah, an underground network of secret cells. In 1964 Arafat became a full-time revolutionary, organising Al-Fatah raids into [[Israel]]. He traveled from country to country to promote the Palestinian cause. During the 80s, Arafat received assistance from [[Irak]] and [[Saudi Arabia]]. In 1989, Arafat was elected president of State of Palestine by the Central Council of the Palestine National Council.
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"... the intifada (shaking) protest movement strengthened Arafat by directing world attention to the difficult plight of the Palestinians. In 1988 came a change of policy. In a speech at a special United Nations session held in Geneva, Switzerland, Arafat declared that the "Palestinian Liberation Organization" renounced terrorism and supported "the right of all parties concerned in the Middle East conflict to live in peace and security, including the state of Palestine, Israel and other neighbours". <ref> [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/arafat-bio.html Yasser Arafat, The Nobel Peace Prize 1994] </ref>
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Arafat received in 1994 the Nobel Peace Prize because of Oslo Accords of 1993. From December 2001 to April 2002 he was under house arrest in [[Ramallah]]. This gave Arafat the status of a living martyr for the Palestinian cause. In 2004, Arafat died at the Frech Percy Military Hospital in Clamart, near Paris. The cause of his illness is still unknown.
==See also==
* [[Che Guevara]]
* [[Osama Bin Laden]]
== External links ==
* [http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Yassir_Arafat_1929-2004.asp Yassir Arafat:1929-2004] 'HonestReporting'
* [http://lexicorient.com/e.o/arafat.htm Yassir Arafat] Encyclopaedia of the Orient.
== References ==
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He got his degree of engineering at Faud University in 1956. In 1958 he and some friends founded Al-Fatah, an underground network of secret cells. In 1964 Arafat became a full-time revolutionary, organising Al-Fatah raids into [[Israel]]. He traveled from country to country to promote the Palestinian cause. During the 80s, Arafat received assistance from [[Irak]] and [[Saudi Arabia]]. In 1989, Arafat was elected president of State of Palestine by the Central Council of the Palestine National Council.
<blockquote style="background: #F9F9F9; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA; padding: .3em;">
"... the intifada (shaking) protest movement strengthened Arafat by directing world attention to the difficult plight of the Palestinians. In 1988 came a change of policy. In a speech at a special United Nations session held in Geneva, Switzerland, Arafat declared that the "Palestinian Liberation Organization" renounced terrorism and supported "the right of all parties concerned in the Middle East conflict to live in peace and security, including the state of Palestine, Israel and other neighbours". <ref> [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/arafat-bio.html Yasser Arafat, The Nobel Peace Prize 1994] </ref>
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Arafat received in 1994 the Nobel Peace Prize because of Oslo Accords of 1993. From December 2001 to April 2002 he was under house arrest in [[Ramallah]]. This gave Arafat the status of a living martyr for the Palestinian cause. In 2004, Arafat died at the Frech Percy Military Hospital in Clamart, near Paris. The cause of his illness is still unknown.
==See also==
* [[Che Guevara]]
* [[Osama Bin Laden]]
== External links ==
* [http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Yassir_Arafat_1929-2004.asp Yassir Arafat:1929-2004] 'HonestReporting'
* [http://lexicorient.com/e.o/arafat.htm Yassir Arafat] Encyclopaedia of the Orient.
== References ==
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