Megromlott Arafat egészségi állapota

2003. október 26.
Lapinformációk szerint Arafat egészségi állapota válságos.

Az izraeli vezetés immár nem Jasszer Arafat kiutasítását tervezi, hanem a megromlott egészségű palesztin elnök halálának következményeivel foglalkozik – írja hétvégi számában Belgium vezető napilapja, a Le Soir. Az információk szerint a Saron-kormány az így keletkező hatalmi űrt a Gáza-övezet katonai megszállására használná fel, hogy ezzel végzetes csapást mérjen a Palesztin Hatóságra. A lap úgy tudja, a palesztin biztonsági szolgálatok is készülnek legfőbb parancsnokuk távozására: felvették a kapcsolatot Arafat lehetséges utódaival és fegyvereket gyűjtenek. (BPI)

Arafat eredeti életrajza

Yasser Arafat (1929 – )

Yasser Arafat’s life has been the subject of numerous books and articles, and some of the most basic information such as the date and place of birth have been in dispute. For example, French biographers, Christophe Boltanski and Jihan El-Tahri revealed in their 1997 book, Les sept vies de Yasser Arafat , that Arafat was born on August 4, 1929, in Cairo, Egypt, not “Palestine.” Ian Pacepa, a former intelligence official also disclosed that the KGB had invented a for Arafat with a birthplace in Jerusalem. The following is excerpted from the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Information bio.

Mohammed Yasser Abdul-Ra’ouf Qudwa Al-Husseini, more commonly known as Yasser Arafat was born August 24, 1929, in the Gaza Strip. Arafat attended King Fuad University in Egypt where he received a Bachelor Degree in Architecture Engineering in 1951.
In 1958, he left Egypt to Kuwait where he worked as an engineer and met with Abu Jihad. In Kuwait, he discussed the idea of establishing “Fatah ” the Palestinian National Liberation Movement. He then returned to “Palestine” and met with a group of Palestinian activists and founded Fatah Movement on January 1, 1965. Arafat stayed in Jerusalem until 1967 before moving to Jordan. He secretly returned to “Palestine ” three times.
Arafat was elected as Chairman for the Executive Committee of the PLO in 1969 to be the third chairman after Ahmad Shuqeiri and Yahya Hamoda. He still retains that title. In the aftermath of the September 1969 war in Jordan, he moved [the Palestinians who threatened King Hussein’s regime were actually driven out] to Lebanon and remained there until 1982 when Beirut was under siege for three months by the Israeli army. After that he left Beirut to Tunisia.
In 1987, the Palestinian Intifada erupted in the disputed territories and lasted until September 13, 1993, when President Arafat signed the Declaration of Principles agreement in Washington with the late Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin. On May 4, 1994, Arafat signed the Cairo agreement with Rabin.
On July 1994, he entered Gaza after 27 years in the Diaspora. In 1994, President Arafat was awarded the Nobel peace prize which he shared with the late PM Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.
On January 20, Arafat was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority with 83 percent of the vote.
Arafat is married to Suha At-Taweel and they have a two-year old daughter, Zahwa.

Source: Ministry Of Information of the Palestinian National Authority.