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Arafat was 'a revolutionary not a statesman'
AFP
Published: 09.11.14, 18:28
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1. Character
zaba ,   Calif.   (11.09.14)
Arafat was....a jihadist. He practiced a wide variety of jihad. Many, many do.
2. really? how about being a mass murderer?
m   (11.09.14)
Where are all the billions he amassed? Who has them except for his fake wife?
3. Not a great job by AFP
Shalom ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (11.10.14)
The problem is not "agreements which were very badly negotiated by Arafat" but that Arafat never intended to keep the agreements, so he did not care about the wording of what he signed. He made it clear that for him the Oslo Accords were the Trojan Horse in which he would return to the land and work for the disappearance of Israel from within instead of from exile. At the time he had not merely been "exiled to Tunis" but FROM Tunis to the Libyan desert. So the article is of little worth as history but rather as informative about the current state of Palestinian self-delusion.
4. One man's 'freedom fighter' ....
Sherlock Holmes ,   London England   (11.12.14)
Arafat wanted to be the eternal freedom fighter, never burdened with the responsibilities of building a state. One of the murderers and terrorists of his age he was also, at the end, a Christian, according to a close friend interviewed in today's Telegraph [London]
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