Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات‎) (August 4 or August 24, 1929 – November 11, 2004), born Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني) and also known by the kunya Abu `Ammar (أبو عمّار), was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004); President1 of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) (1993–2004 ...

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• Yasser Arafat - Early life
• Yasser Arafat - Fatah and the PLO
• Yasser Arafat - Jordan
• Yasser Arafat - Lebanon
• Yasser Arafat - Tunisia
• Yasser Arafat - Palestinian Authority and peace negotiations
• Yasser Arafat - Political survival and marginalization
• Yasser Arafat - Financial dealings
• Yasser Arafat - Illness and death
• Yasser Arafat - Aftermath
• Yasser Arafat - Bibliography
• Yasser Arafat - Notes

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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 dangerous nature of politics of the Middle East and the frequency of assassinations. Some commentators believe his personal survival was largely due to Israel's fear that he could become a martyr for the Palestinian cause if he was to be assassinated or even arrested by Israel. Others believe that Israel kept Arafat alive because they feared Arafat less than Hama ...

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Yasser Arafat, Yasser Arafat - Early life, Yasser Arafat - Fatah and the PLO, Yasser Arafat - Jordan, Yasser Arafat - Lebanon, Yasser Arafat - Tunisia, Yasser Arafat - Palestinian Authority and peace negotiations, Yasser Arafat - Political survival and marginalization, Yasser Arafat - Financial dealings, Yasser Arafat - Illness and death, Yasser Arafat - Aftermath, Yasser Arafat - Bibliography, Yasser Arafat - Notes

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The movement, which espoused a Palestinian nationalist ideology in which Palestine would be liberated by the actions of Palestinians, was founded in 1958 or 1959 by members of the Palestinian diaspora - principally professionals working in the Gulf States who had been refugees in Gaza and had gone on to study in Cairo. The most notable of these was Yasser Arafat, who was head of the Palestinian student movement in Cairo from 1952 to 1956. Fatah became the dominant force in Palestinian politics after the 1967 Six-Day War dealt the coup de gr� ...

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Fatah, Fatah - Meaning of name, Fatah - History, Fatah - Participation in the peace process and controversies, Fatah - Fatah armed factions

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1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. 1996 - Events. January 5 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. January 7 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states, killing more than 100. January 8 - Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital Kinshasa ...

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• 1996 - Events
• 1996 - February
• 1996 - March
• 1996 - April
• 1996 - May
• 1996 - June
• 1996 - July
• 1996 - August
• 1996 - September
• 1996 - October
• 1996 - November
• 1996 - December
• 1996 - Environmental change
• 1996 - Unknown date
• 1996 - Births
• 1996 - Deaths
• 1996 - January-February
• 1996 - March-June
• 1996 - July-December
• 1996 - Nobel Prizes
• 1996 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• 1996 - Templeton Prize
• 1996 - Right Livelihood Award

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The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The 90s were marked with rapid progression of democracy, globalization and global capitalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Key forces shaping the decade were the Gulf War; popularization of Personal Computers and the Internet, leading to the .com boom. ...

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• 1990s - Events and trends
• 1990s - Similarities with the 2000s Decade
• 1990s - Technology
• 1990s - Science
• 1990s - War, peace, and politics
• 1990s - Economics
• 1990s - Culture
• 1990s - Other significant events
• 1990s - People
• 1990s - World leaders
• 1990s - Entertainers
• 1990s - Films
• 1990s - Books & Literature
• 1990s - Sports figures

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1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. 1994 - Events. January 1 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 1 - Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins war in Chiapas, Mexico January 1 - Bantustans join South Africa January 6 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival ...

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• 1994 - Events
• 1994 - February
• 1994 - March
• 1994 - April
• 1994 - May
• 1994 - June
• 1994 - July
• 1994 - August
• 1994 - September
• 1994 - October
• 1994 - November
• 1994 - December
• 1994 - Births
• 1994 - Deaths
• 1994 - January
• 1994 - February-April
• 1994 - May-October
• 1994 - November-December
• 1994 - Nobel Prizes
• 1994 - Fields Medalists
• 1994 - Templeton Prize
• 1994 - Right Livelihood Award

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2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the ...

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• 2004 - Events
• 2004 - January
• 2004 - February
• 2004 - March
• 2004 - April
• 2004 - May
• 2004 - June
• 2004 - July
• 2004 - August
• 2004 - September
• 2004 - October
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• 2004 - Births
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• 2004 - January
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• 2004 - April
• 2004 - May
• 2004 - June
• 2004 - July
• 2004 - August
• 2004 - September
• 2004 - October
• 2004 - November
• 2004 - December
• 2004 - Nobel Prizes

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This article is about the decade starting at the beginning of 2000 and ending at the end of 2009. For the century or millennium starting in 2001, see the links below. 2000s - The decade as a whole. The 2000s decade refers to the years from 2000 to 2009, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. So far, the 2000s has been marked generally with an escalation of the social issues a ...

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• 2000s - The decade as a whole
• 2000s - Names of the decade
• 2000s - Criticisms of the Decade
• 2000s - Events and trends
• 2000s - Technology
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• 2000s - War peace and politics
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• 2000s - Trends and Fashion
• 2000s - United States
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• 2000s - Film
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• 2000s - Television and Radio
• 2000s - Sports
• 2000s - People
• 2000s - World leaders
• 2000s - Entertainers
• 2000s - Sports figures

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Palestinian National Authority This article is part of the series: Politics of the Palestinian National Authority President: Mahmoud Abbas Prime Minister: Nabil Shaath Palestinian Legislative Council PLO List of political parties Elections: President: 2005 Legislative: 2006 Oslo Accords Al-Aqsa Intifada St ...

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• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Prior events
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Timeline
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2000
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2001
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2002
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2003
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2004
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - 2005
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Tactics
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Palestinians
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Israel
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - The West Bank barrier
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - International Involvement
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Effects on Oslo Accords
• Al-Aqsa Intifada - Economic and human costs

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1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. 1997 - Designations. International organizations, including the United Nations, designated 1997 as the International Year of the Reef. 1997 - Events. 1997 - January. January 5 - NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 - Mister Rogers receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame January 9 - Yachts ...

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• 1997 - Designations
• 1997 - Events
• 1997 - January
• 1997 - February
• 1997 - March
• 1997 - April
• 1997 - May
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• 1997 - January-May
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• 1997 - September-December
• 1997 - Unknown date
• 1997 - Nobel Prizes
• 1997 - Templeton Prize

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Mohammad Amin al-Husayni (ca. 1895-July 4, 1974, أمين الحسيني, alternatively known as al-Husseini, el-Husseini, Al-Hajj Amin or Haj Amin), was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim religious leader. A member of Jerusalem's most prominent family, his most important positions were as Mufti of Jerusalem and President of the Supreme Muslim Council. Known as the "Grand Mufti of Jerusalem", he received this title in 1921 after the death of his father (the Mufti of Jerusalem) under the auspi ...

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• Amin al-Husayni - Early life
• Amin al-Husayni - Palestinian nationalism
• Amin al-Husayni - Nazi ties and World War II
• Amin al-Husayni - Pre-war
• Amin al-Husayni - In Nazi-occupied Europe
• Amin al-Husayni - The Holocaust
• Amin al-Husayni - Post-war activities
• Amin al-Husayni - Mufti's influence
• Amin al-Husayni - Footnotes

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Amira Hass (born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha'aretz. She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The daughter of two Holocaust survivors, Hass was born in Jerusalem. She began her journalistic career in 1989 as a staff editor for Ha'aretz and started to report from the Palestinian Territories in 1991. As of 2003, she is the only full-time Jewish Israeli journalist who lives among the Palestini ...

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• Amira Hass - Books

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The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP), were finalized in Oslo, Norway on August 20, 1993, and subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington D.C. on September 13, 1993, with Yasser Arafat signing for the Palestine Liberation Organization and Shimon Peres signing for the State of Israel. It was witnessed by Warren Christopher for the United States and Andrei Kozyrev for Russia, in the presence of US President Bill Clinton and Israel's Prime Minister Y ...

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• Oslo Accords - Background
• Oslo Accords - Principles of the Accords
• Oslo Accords - Annexes of the accords
• Oslo Accords - Agreed minutes of the accords
• Oslo Accords - The acceptance of the accords by the two peoples
• Oslo Accords - Subsequent negotiations
• Oslo Accords - Oslo 2
• Oslo Accords - Additional agreements
• Oslo Accords - Fate of the accords
• Oslo Accords - Loss of credibility
• Oslo Accords - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties
• Oslo Accords - Issues
• Oslo Accords - People

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The Arab-Israeli conflict is a long-running conflict in the Middle East concerning self-determination of the Jews in the Land of Israel and, after the establishment of the state of Israel, its relations with the Arab states and the Palestinian population (see Israeli-Palestinian conflict.) Some uses of the term Middle East conflict refer to this matter, but the region has been host to other disputes and wars not directly ...

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• Arab-Israeli conflict - History
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Reasons for the conflict
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Israeli views
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Palestinian and other Arab views
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Mutual claims
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Peace and reconciliation
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Quotations
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Abbreviated timeline

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The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (كتائب شهداء الأقصى) are a Palestinian militia closely linked to the Fatah party. They have been one of most active forces in the al-Aqsa Intifada, emerging shortly afterwards. This militia was originally named after the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites and an icon for the Palestinian movement. The group's membership is primarily drawn from the ranks of Tanzim, (organization in Arabic), a militant youth group within al-Fatah. Following Yasser Arafat's death ...

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• Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - Relationship with Arafat and Fatah
• Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - Activities
• Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - List of al-Aqsa Brigades activists

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In the context of biology, poisons are substances that cause injury, illness, or death to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale. Some poisons are also toxins, usually referring to naturally produced substances, such as the bacterial proteins that cause tetanus and botulism. A distinction between the two terms is not always observed, even among scientists. Animal toxins that are delivered subcutaneously (e.g. by sting or bite) are also called venom. In normal usage, a poisonou ...

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• Poison - Biological poisoning
• Poison - Poisoning in children
• Poison - Background
• Poison - Management
• Poison - By mechanism
• Poison - Corrosives T54
• Poison - Metabolic poisons energy
• Poison - Neurotoxins T44
• Poison - Teratogens birth defects
• Poison - Mutagens DNA damage
• Poison - Carcinogens cancer
• Poison - By source
• Poison - Non-radioactive inorganic poisons
• Poison - Organic poisons
• Poison - Naturally produced poisons and toxins
• Poison - Famous poisonings
• Poison - Confirmed poisonings
• Poison - Suspected or rumoured poisonings
• Poison - Poisons in crime fiction
• Poison - Novels
• Poison - Plays
• Poison - Films
• Poison - Poison in other literary works
• Poison - Novels

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Founded in 1980 as a non-profit organization, it has its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, and a stated 850,000 members and over 100 employees worldwide. Outside the U.S., there are affiliated offices in the UK, [1] India, [2] Germany, [3] Asia, and the Netherlands. [4] There is also peta2 Street Team for high school and college-age activists. [5] Ingrid Newkirk is PETA's international president. PETA focuses on fo ...

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• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - PETA's philosophy
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - History
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Campaigns
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Criticism of PETA
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Targeting of vulnerable groups
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Support of extremists and terrorists
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Response to a suicide bombing
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Use of nudity
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Animal cruelty and euthanasia

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Ariel "Arik" Sharon ▶ (help·info) (Hebrew: אריאל שרון) (born February 27, 1928) is the eleventh and current Prime Minister of Israel, serving from March 2001. A long-serving Israeli political and military leader, he was a founding member and former head of the Likud party, and previously served for over thirty years in the Israeli Defense Forces, rising to the rank of Major General, and achieving fame within Israel for his actions in the 1967 Six Day ...

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• Ariel Sharon - Early life
• Ariel Sharon - Mitla incident
• Ariel Sharon - Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War
• Ariel Sharon - Sabra and Shatila massacre
• Ariel Sharon - Political career
• Ariel Sharon - Gaza evacuation
• Ariel Sharon - Founding of Kadima
• Ariel Sharon - Health problems

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Islamism refers to a set of political ideologies derived from various religious views of Muslim fundamentalists, which hold that Islam is not only a religion, but also a political system that should govern the legal, economic and social imperatives of the state. Islamist movements seek to re-shape the state by implementing a conservative formulation of Sharia. [1] Islamists regard themselves as Muslims rather than Islamists, while moderate Muslims and liberal movements within Islam reject this notion. Some perceive Islamists as Triump ...

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• Islamism - Definition
• Islamism - History
• Islamism - The Deobandi Movement
• Islamism - Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi
• Islamism - The Muslim Brotherhood
• Islamism - Islamic Jihad movements
• Islamism - Wahhabism
• Islamism - Recent history
• Islamism - Islamism and modern political theory
• Islamism - Islamist movements

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The concept of peace ranks among the most controversial in our time. Peace undoubtedly carries a positive connotation; almost nobody admits to opposing peace; world peace is widely seen as one of the most noble goals of humanity. Various groups, however, differ sharply about what peace entails, how best to achieve peace, and whether peace is even truly possible. Peace - What is peace?. Peace is many things: the meaning of the word peace changes with context. Peace may refer specifically to an agreement conc ...

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• Peace - What is peace?
• Peace - Selfless Act of Love
• Peace - Absence of war
• Peace - Absence of violence or of evil; presence of justice
• Peace - Plural peaces
• Peace - Peace and quiet
• Peace - Inner peace
• Peace - Environmental Peace
• Peace - Is violence necessary?
• Peace - Historical examples and counter examples
• Peace - Peacemakers
• Peace - Nobel Peace Prize
• Peace - Quotes

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