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21 years since the death of Yasser Arafat
November 11, 2004 in Jerusalem
Today coincides with the commemoration of the 21st anniversary of the martyrdom of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, “Abu Ammar who passed away on November 11, 2004. The late president was born in Jerusalem on August 4, 1929. His full name was “Mohammad Yasser”, Abdul Raouf Daoud Sulaiman Arafat Al-Qidweh Al-Husseini. He studied in Cairo and participated as a reserve officer in the Egyptian army, joining the fight against the triple aggression against Egypt in 1956. He studied in the Faculty of Engineering of the “Fouad I” University in Cairo, he participated since his youth in the Palestinian national movement through his activities in the ranks of the Palestine Students’ Union, which he later assumed the presidency of. He also joined a group of Palestinian nationalists in the founding of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) in the 1950s. He became its official spokesperson in 1968 and was elected chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in February 1969. In 1974, Abu Ammar gave a speech on behalf of the Palestinian people to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he famously said: “I I have brought you a weapon in one hand and an olive branch in the other, so do not let the green branch fall from my hand.” As commander-in-chief of the joint forces of the Palestinian Revolutionary Forces and the Lebanese National Movement, Abu Ammar led the battle against Israeli aggression against Lebanon during the summer of 1982, for 88 days, the siege was imposed by the invading Israeli forces around the city of Beirut, which ended with an international agreement, demanding the departure of the Palestinian fighters and when journalists asked Yasser Arafat as he crossed the sea to going to Tunisia aboard a Greek ship, he replied: “I am going to Palestine.” Leader Yasser Arafat as well as the leaders and executives of the PLO were guests in Tunisia. From there, he began to carry out his intensive efforts towards Palestine. On October 1, 1985, Yasser Arafat miraculously escaped an Israeli raid on a suburb in Tunisia, which resulted in the death of dozens of Palestinian and Tunisian martyrs and wounded. After reconciliation in 1987 between rival Palestinian political forces at a meeting of the Palestinian National Council, Arafat took the lead on several fronts in Palestine against the occupation. The same year the first Intifada broke out in the occupied Palestinian territories, he then engaged in political battles at the international level to promote recognition of the Palestinian cause and justice for their aspirations. Following the declaration of independence in Algeria on November 15, 1988, the late president launched the Palestinian Peace Initiative for a just peace in the Middle East at the end of December 13-14 of the same year at the United Nations General Assembly, the assembly was held in Geneva after the United States refused to grant him a travel visa to New York and a dialogue was opened with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Tunisia on March 30, 1989. Yasser Arafat and former Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, signed the Oslo Declaration of Principles (Oslo) between the PLO and the Israeli government at the White House on September 13, 1993, Yasser Arafat returned to lead the PLO in Palestine.
Wafa