Join Our Mailing List  Sponsor Us!  Yasser Arafat  (1929 - 2004)
Print Friendly and PDF  Yasser Arafat was founder and leader of
the Fatah political party and later the chairman of the
Palestine Liberation Organization and president of the
Palestinian National Authority. Arafat spent the majority of his
life dedicated to fighting Israel though he was also involved in
skirmishes between Palestinians and Jordanian and Lebanese
forces at different times.  Together with Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin and President Shimon Peres, Arafat was awarded the
1994 Nobel Prize in World Peace for his efforts in signing the
1993 Oslo Peace Accords. Arafat's legacy has left him highly
scorned and villified for leading the Palestinians into the Al-
Aqsa Intifada, a war with Israel that lasted nearly five years
from 2000 to 2005 and claimed thousands of lives on both sides
of the conflict.  - Early Life - Taking Over the PLO -
Challenging King Hussein - Aftermath of the 1973 War - Life in
Lebanon - Exiled in Tunisia - The