Yasser Arafat

Twenty-six years after Camp David, Israel needs a new security doctrine - opinion

The only practical foundation for any future arrangement will emerge only when a profound change in Palestinian consciousness takes place.

Barak, Clinton, Arafat at Camp David 311 AP
Then-defense minister Ariel Sharon (R) meets with IDF soldiers after a battle with Palestinian gunmen at Beaufort Castle, southern Lebanon, June 7, 1982.

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

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


Hamas's Yahya Sinwar set for 'Arafat-style' exile from Gaza - report

According to the report, Israeli officials have floated the idea of allowing Sinwar to "leave like [Yasser] Arafat left Lebanon."

 HAMAS MONSTER Yahya Sinwar, instrumental in the Oct. 7 attacks, was the recipient of lifesaving brain surgery at Israel's Shamir Medical Center in 2004.

Palestinian demilitarization is just a myth - opinion

My conclusion is that demilitarization is a myth. In any territory evacuated by Israel, it is neither possible to enforce nor reasonable to expect that.

 ARMED PALESTINIANS show their presence in Tulkarm, in the West Bank, last week. Demilitarization is a myth; it is neither possible to enforce nor reasonable to expect in any territory evacuated by Israel, says the writer.

Oslo protocols declassified: Rabin doubted Palestinian elections

Israel's national archives released the protocols of a 1993 government meeting on the Olso Accords, led by then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

 THE 1993 OSLO Accords between Israel and the PLO were signed in Washington, with a beaming president Bill Clinton presiding over the White House ceremony

What these Arab towns have in common - opinion

Terrorists running free, a PA that ignores its Oslo obligations to arrest them, and an international community that chooses to look away.

 AN IDF soldier stands guard, south of Nablus, last week. PA towns are still filled with terrorists, forcing Israel to send its soldiers there to capture them.

Letters to the Editor, December 05, 2022: Witness to the atrocities

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Yasser Arafat thought Mahmoud Abbas was plotting to get rid of him - leaks

The documents consist mostly of the testimonies of senior Palestinian officials who appeared before the special commission set up by the PA to investigate the circumstances around Arafat's death

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

Does this youth group teach Palestinian nationalism, visit Arafat tomb?

The Jerusalem Post found on social media almost two dozen instances of Palestinian nationalism and Land Day and Nakba Day commemorations by the movement’s youth group and other programs

 AJEEC participant waving a Palestinian flag at a demonstration.

Polish delegation to Palestinian territories pays tribute to Arafat

Multiple members of the delegation referred to Israel as an apartheid state.

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Polish President Andrzej Duda review the honour guard in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 18, 2017.

Arafat's widow endorses model Bella Hadid for US Congress

"Bella should be a leader – she has to go for elections in the American Congress," said Suha Arafat, widow of the late Yasser Arafat.

Model Bella Hadid attends a rehearsal before the Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2020 collection show by designer Alexandre Vauthier in Paris, France, January 21, 2020.

Christians, Christmas, pre-COVID-19: Things I miss as a tour guide

I miss the Christians, and I miss Christmas - in Israel, before COVID-19 closures, before the Oslo Accords.

 ‘I SPENT many a Christmas Eve in Bethlehem’s Manger Square’: Taking a selfie there on a previous holiday; illustrative.