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


PMW: PA highlights Arafat's call for martyrdom on anniversary of his death

Arafat died on November 11, 2004. He is commonly remembered for brokering peace accords with Israeli leaders, but the Palestinian Authority has chosen to highlight his calls for martyrs.

Former PLO/PA Chairman Yasser Arafat: "this blood will spread on the land as it has spread on the Palestinian land – with burning and with fire," Official PA TV, November 10-11.

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.

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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.