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


The Hamlet of the Palestinians

A biography of Mahmoud Abbas attempts to show how this believer in peace achieved power but was frustrated in his goals

Abbas gestures during a speech in Ramallah last year marking the 12th anniversary of terrorist leader Yasser Arafat’s death

50 ans de plans de paix

Comment découper une terre convoitée ? Retour sur les initiatives de partage restées lettre morte en dépit de l’imagination des politiques

Sadate, Carter et Begin en 1978

Comment: Israel’s alt-right ramps up the pressure on Trump

Failure to move US embassy to Jerusalem may put loyalties to the test.

A policeman arrests Israeli right-wing activist Itamar Ben Gvir during a 'Peace Now' demonstration in Jerusalem

Hamas-Fatah reconciliation

The Jerusalem Post

La mort de Fidel Castro : jusqu’à la victoire, finalement

Le soutien historique du Líder Máximo à certaines causes, notamment celle des Palestiniens, lui offre aujourd’hui une sorte de victoire posthume

Fidel Castro signe le registre de condoléances de Yasser Arafat

Palestinian Authority media: Israel and Palestinians killed Arafat

Jordanian journalist hints Dahlan played role in 2004 death of PA President.

Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat waves as he is briefly lifted on the shoulders of Palestinian police moments after entering the Gaza Strip in 1994

Palestinian leadership tensions flare amid Arafat death anniversary

Abbas said he knew who was behind Arafat's death and that an investigating panel would soon reveal its findings.

Yasser Arafat

Arafat Museum unveiled in Ramallah

While many Palestinians hail Arafat as the father of Palestinian nationalism, others, including many Israelis, believe he has blood on his hands.

Late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat

Coming full circle on 9/11

Was the Koran behind such evil, or was it hijacked, like the planes-turned-bombs? Were all Muslims to be held accountable for the act of a few radicals, or would they join in the fight to root out their bad seeds?

A MAINTENANCE worker wipes off early morning dew at the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial in Washington DC. (

Arafat is not a hero

Arafat has been dead for almost 12 years now, but his legacy is very much alive. So long as it is, the dream of peace will remain a distant illusion.

An armed man walks past a graffiti depicting late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Lebanon's southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain El-Helweh