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    Ar·a·fat, Yasser
    [ˈerəfat]
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    1. (1929–2004), Palestinian statesman, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization 1968–2004 and Palestinian president 1996–2004. He became leader of the new Palestine National Authority in 1994, following the signing of a PLO–Israeli peace accord for which he shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.
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    Yasser Arafat - Wikipedia

    Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004 and president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. … See more

    Birth and childhood
    Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt. His father, Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, was a Palestinian from See more

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    In the late 1960s, tensions between Palestinians and the Jordanian government increased greatly; heavily armed Palestinian … See more

    Arafat and Fatah's center for operations was based in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, until 1993. In 1985 Arafat narrowly survived an Israeli … See more

    Arafat's long personal and political survival was taken by most Western commentators as a sign of his mastery of asymmetric warfare and his skill as a tactician, given the extremely … See more

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    Founding of Fatah
    Following the Suez Crisis in 1956, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser agreed to allow the See more

    Official recognition
    Because of Lebanon's weak central government, the PLO was able to operate virtually as an … See more

    Oslo Accords
    In the early 1990s, Arafat and leading Fatah officials engaged the Israeli government in a series of secret talks and negotiations that … See more

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