Yasser Arafat In The Move Toward a Palestinian State
Yasser Arafat was born into a Palestinian family in Egypt in 1929.
Even in his early life he began fighting from age eighteen onwards,
first the British, then the Israelis. At the age of thirty he founded
a magazine in 1959 which aimed to create and identity for the
Palestinians living in camps. This was a good way of giving the people
publicity and also shows that his original motives when he was young
were good.
As time went on, Arafat's actions began to contradict his early good
intentions as he set up Al-Fatah, a guerrilla movement that set up
guerrilla cells to launch attacks into Israel. This already made him
look like more of a terrorist than a freedom-fighter.
In 1968 Arafat lost a war, his second major defeat after a battle lost
in 1948. Despite this set-back in Arafat's campaign, he gained many
new supporters who believed in what he was doing. Later that year he
was assigned the position of leader of the PLO, the 'umbrella' for the
organisation of the main guerrilla movements. This further made his
motives look like they were in the interests of terror.
The two lost wars had been set-backs for Arafat but he kept up the
threat by launching cross-border raids from the new PLO head quarters
in Lebanon, having been driven out of Jordan by King Hussein.
After the Munich Massacre in 1972, Arafat gave his definite approval,
and yet later claimed he had always been against it. "We had to
associate ourselves with what was happening in order to control the
situation and then turn off the terror tap. And it is this that we who
were against the use of terror are called ter...
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...hy was getting him no where in the fight
for a Palestinian state.
On the 24th June President Bush calls for a change in leadership from
Arafat. It had become the general opinion that Arafat's influence was
useless.
In conclusion Yasser Arafat has tried every tactic and almost always
failed. But in terms of peace keeping he has generally done well,
particularly by making the controversial decision of declining
Clinton's offer because extremists from both sides would have been
likely to react violently.
His involvement with Camp David in 1978 and the Oslo Accords is
progress that cannot be denied. Arafat must get some credit for this
but without the help and encouragement of America who brokered the
talks. If Arafat's claims are true; that he has no control over Hamas
then Arafat has done as much as he can.
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