Yasser Arafat
Former President of the Palestinian National AuthorityWikipedia
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Sep 22, 2026
Nayeema RazaGUEST
Yeah.
Julie PinheiroHOST
And I think about that image of, you know, Yasser Arafat and the Israeli prime minister in the mid-'90s with Bill Clinton-
Nayeema RazaGUEST
At the-
Julie PinheiroHOST
... at the White House.
Marcus SheffGUEST
where essentially young Palestinians are told, you know, there was this attempt, but it didn't serve our purposes.
Marcus SheffGUEST
They even doctored the letter that Yasser Arafat wrote to Rabin talking about, you know, an end to violence.
Marcus SheffGUEST
They doctored it.
Marcus SheffGUEST
So they doctored, if you like, the letter of their own leader because it had elements which were not hateful enough towards Israel, towards the Jews.
Michael R. FischbachGUEST
And, um, this public embrace, again, among some Palestinians, and again, notably the Palestine Liberation Organization itself, that he was actually a hero for the Arab cause, for the Palestinians.
Michael R. FischbachGUEST
And that alarmed some people enough in the United States that one Arab American activist actually flew to Jordan in September of 1969 and met with Yasser Arafat, the head of the PLO, the head of FETA and the PLO, and advised him that embracing Sirhan as a freedom fighter for Palestine is not a good idea.
Michael R. FischbachGUEST
of the sensitivities in the United States, this is just going to backfire.
Michael R. FischbachGUEST
So yeah, many Arab attitudes initially were quite confused, distancing themselves from him, but eventually some, and again, notably PLO, at least for a time, switched and embraced him.
Michele BachmannHOST
Yes.
Michele BachmannHOST
Well, Yasser Arafat,
Erin ZimmermanHOST
their great leader of the 20th century, was Egyptian.
Erin ZimmermanHOST
Sorry.
Michael R. FischbachGUEST
And, um, this public embrace, again, among some Palestinians, and again, notably the Palestine Liberation Organization itself, that he was actually a hero for the Arab cause, for the Palestinians.
Michael R. FischbachGUEST
And that alarmed some people enough in the United States that one Arab American activist actually flew to Jordan in September of 1969 and met with Yasser Arafat, the head of the PLO, the head of FETA and the PLO, and advised him that embracing Sirhan as a freedom fighter for Palestine is not a good idea.
Michael R. FischbachGUEST
of the sensitivities in the United States, this is just going to backfire.
Michael R. FischbachGUEST
So yeah, many Arab attitudes initially were quite confused, distancing themselves from him, but eventually some, and again, notably PLO, at least for a time, switched and embraced him.
Michael R. FischbachGUEST
And, um, this public embrace, again, among some Palestinians, and again, notably the Palestine Liberation Organization itself, that he was actually a hero for the Arab cause, for the Palestinians.
Michael R. FischbachGUEST
And that alarmed some people enough in the United States that one Arab American activist actually flew to Jordan in September of 1969 and met with Yasser Arafat, the head of the PLO, the head of FETA and the PLO, and advised him that embracing Sirhan as a freedom fighter for Palestine is not a good idea because of the sensitivities in the United States.
Michael R. FischbachGUEST
This is just going to backfire.
Michael R. FischbachGUEST
So, yeah, many Arab attitudes initially were quite confused, distancing themselves from him, but eventually some, and again, notably PLO, at least for a time, switched and embraced him.
Tim ShipmanGUEST
No one doubts that this policy is popular domestically, but the question is whether Berman Miliband's desire to proceed with it ought to have been outweighed by the first duty of government, which is national security.
Tim ShipmanGUEST
Not least, given the fallout may have strengthened Netanyahu's chances of re-election, and that the two-state solution remains as remote as it has been since Yasser Arafat rejected it in 2000.
Tim ShipmanGUEST
This is not a business for people who want to be purer than pure, a former cabinet minister says.
Tim ShipmanGUEST
This is a business for people who want to protect Britain.
Jason BurkeGUEST
It may be the PFLP.
Jason BurkeGUEST
It may be Arafat's early days.
Jason BurkeGUEST
It may be none of those things.
Jason BurkeGUEST
It may be the story of Laila Khalid.
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Jason BurkeGUEST
He's in his teens.
Jason BurkeGUEST
But secondly, it's not that well documented, although there's been some pretty good research recently on it.
Jason BurkeGUEST
But there's this idea that he was at one point part of Yasser Arafat's bodyguard.
Jason BurkeGUEST
So trusted was he and so kind of far down the secular line.
speaker_13UNKNOWN
The Congressman said afterward no decision has been made.
speaker_13UNKNOWN
There are reports that PLO leader Yasser Arafat is seeking U.S. recognition of the PLO as the price for leaving Lebanon.
speaker_13UNKNOWN
Tonight on Nightline, more on the nomination of George Shultz.
speaker_13UNKNOWN
Now this.
Thom HartmannHOST
I mean, that was a reasonable offer.
Thom HartmannHOST
And what's his name? Yasser Arafat was so corrupt.
Thom HartmannHOST
that that he turned it down i mean there there have been a couple of opportunities here one with carter and one with clinton uh to do something really good and they both got largely blown up by by the palestinians i'll give you that although although the israelis have not been real friendly on this but you
Thom HartmannSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
know it's just it's
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