Yasser Arafat

Arafat's Intifada Jonathan D. Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. A recent Israeli documentary argued that the Second Intifada was a spontaneous uprising, not instigated by the Palestinian Authority.  But substantial testimony from the PA at the time shows otherwise.

Kuwait's Palestinian Expulsion Steven J. Rosen, Middle East Quarterly. Arafat called what Kuwait did to its Palestinians “worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.”  But the international community said nothing.

The Real Hypocrites Natan Sharansky, Daily Beast. On Peter Beinart’s blog, Natan Sharansky was called a human rights hypocrite.  “I want Palestinians to have all the rights in the world,” Sharansky answers, “except the power to destroy me.”

Yasir Arafat Poisoned? Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Volkhard Windfuhr, Spiegel. Eight years after Arafat’s mysterious death in Paris, the French have begun a criminal investigation.  Who poisoned him?  The Israelis?  Or, with outside help, his Palestinian comrades?

Accounting for Anti-Zionism Efraim Karsh, Israel Affairs. The equation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is often dismissed as “Zionist propaganda.” But the claim challenges one of the fundamental tenets of Zionism.

The Camp David Discords Aaron David Miller, Foreign Policy. Twelve years ago this week, Clinton, Barak, and Arafat gathered for the ultimate exercise in How Not to Summit.