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'''Yasser Arafat''', (Arabic: ياسر عرفات yāsir ^arafāt) ([[Cairo]], [[Egypt]] 1929 - [[Paris]], [[France]] 2004), born Mohammed Al-Husseini al-Qudwa Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat, was Chairman of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]], President of the [[Palestinian National Authority]] and head of the [[Fatah]] movement. Throughout his life Arafat was dedicated to the destruction of [[Israel]] and its replacement with an [[Arab]] "[[Palestinian]]" state.
'''Yasser Arafat''', (Arabic: ياسر عرفات yāsir ^arafāt) ([[Cairo]], [[Egypt]] 1929 - [[Paris]], [[France]] 2004), born Mohammed Al-Husseini al-Qudwa Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat, was Chairman of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]], President of the [[Palestinian National Authority]] and head of the [[Fatah]] movement. Throughout his life Arafat was dedicated to the destruction of [[Israel]] and its replacement with an [[Arab]] "[[Palestinian]]" state.
Columnist on 'Arafat the Monster':{{Cquote|Perhaps his signal contribution to the practice of political terror was the introduction of warfare against children. On one black date in May 1974, three PLO terrorists slipped from Lebanon into the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot. They murdered two parents and a child whom they found at home, then seized a local school, taking more than 100 boys and girls hostage and threatening to kill them unless a number of imprisoned terrorists were released. When Israeli troops attempted a rescue, the terrorists exploded hand grenades and opened fire on the students. By the time the horror ended, 25 people were dead; 21 of them were children.
Thirty years later, no one speaks of Ma'alot anymore. The dead children have been forgotten. Everyone knows Arafat's name, but who ever recalls the names of his victims?
So let us recall them: Ilana Turgeman. Rachel Aputa. Yocheved Mazoz. Sarah Ben-Shim'on. Yona Sabag. Yafa Cohen. Shoshana Cohen. Michal Sitrok. Malka Amrosy. Aviva Saada. Yocheved Diyi. Yaakov Levi. Yaakov Kabla. Rina Cohen. Ilana Ne'eman. Sarah Madar. Tamar Dahan. Sarah Soper. Lili Morad. David Madar. Yehudit Madar. The 21 dead children of Ma'alot -- 21 of the thousands.<ref>Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist, [http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/11/11/arafat_the_monster/ Arafat the monster], '' Boston Globe'', November 11, 2004.</ref>}}
==Early life==
==Early life==
As part of an effort to present himself to the world as the epitome of "Palestine", Arafat would often claim to have been born in Jerusalem (sometime he would identify Gaza as his place of birth). The truth of the matter is that he was born in Cairo, Egypt. Even in his later years his accent and dialect was typical of Egyptians rather than "Palestinians".<ref>[http://www.aish.com/jw/me/48909857.html - Yassir Arafat, 1929-2004], Aish,
As part of an effort to present himself to the world as the epitome of "Palestine", Arafat would often claim to have been born in Jerusalem (sometime he would identify Gaza as his place of birth). The truth of the matter is that he was born in Cairo, Egypt. Even in his later years his accent and dialect was typical of Egyptians rather than "Palestinians".<ref>[http://www.aish.com/jw/me/48909857.html - Yassir Arafat, 1929-2004], Aish,