Yasser Arafat

On This Day: Palestinian terrorists attempt assassinating Israeli ambassador, prompting Lebanon War

Shlomo Argov survived the London shooting attack but remained paralyzed, while Israel launched a campaign that expelled the PLO and set the stage for Iran's Islamic regime to establish Hezbollah.

Then-defense minister Ariel Sharon (R) meets with IDF soldiers after a battle with Palestinian gunmen at Beaufort Castle, southern Lebanon, June 7, 1982.
Shin Bet director David Zini participates in the state memorial ceremony for the October 7 massacre on Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, October 16, 2025

Shin Bet chief David Zini met PA’s exiled Gaza security chief during wartime UAE visit - report

US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff speaks at the weekly rally at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, October 11, 2025.

Trump’s Gaza peace plan officially entering Phase II, Witkoff announces

 THE FAMOUS handshake: Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin seals the deal with PLO leader Yasser Arafat as US president Bill Clinton admires his handiwork, at the White House upon the signing of the Oslo Accords, Sept. 13, 1993.

Palestinians must renounce culture of deception for real peace with Israel - opinion


Palestinian U. gate named after planner of Munich Olympics massacre

"We are proud of the distinguished leaders whose bodies are no more, but whose spirit remains among us.”

Palestinian students walk past a Fatah poster at the Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron

Yasser Arafat's widow apologizes to UAE over insults, burning of flags

Erekat also says symbols of the UAE should not be harmed, but other Palestinians outraged at apology

Suha Arafat, wife of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, speaks during an interview with English-language satellite news channel Al Jazeera in Doha November 6, 2013

20 years since Camp David summit: There was harm in trying

But historic events are not only successes; failures can also be historic in marking a turning point, a watershed moment. And Camp David was just that.

Barak, Clinton, Arafat at Camp David 311 AP

Churchill’s definition of Belgium: ‘A manufactured country’

“Usury” was the grounds for deportation of the Jews of Antwerp by the Duke of Brabant in 1261, who called for them to be expelled or destroyed.

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, 1941.

Above the fold - Their loss, not ours

All these years later, not much that we can consider positive has emerged from the Oslo Accords, other, that is, than stopping the money Arafat had been funneling from Israel.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures beneath a poster of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat

Hamas bans rally to commemorate Yasser Arafat

Fatah and Hamas have been holding indirect negotiations on PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s initiative to hold new Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections.

Yasser Arafat in 1968 at the then PLO head quarters.

Italian city of Palermo names square after Yasser Arafat

In 2014, the mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando also awarded the city's honorary citizenship to Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life-sentences in Israel for terrorism.

Yasser Arafat in 1968 at the then PLO head quarters.

Former Shin Bet head: Arafat smuggled terrorists in his Mercedes

Dichter: "Arafat smuggled terrorists from Egypt two months after PA was established."

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and former Shin Bet head MK Avi Dichter (Likud)

Washington Watch: Paul Findley, ‘Arafat’s best friend’

Yasser Arafat in 1968 at the then PLO head quarters.

The Cohen family of Kfar Darom

Though originally written in 2003 after numerous terror attacks in Kfar Darom, with ongoing rocket attacks in the South, this ‘fable’ is as timely as ever.

KFAR DAROM was a kibbutz within the Gush Katif bloc that was evacuated during the 2005 disengagement. The community has reestablished itself in the Western Negev.