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Was Yasser Arafat a good person?

ronki23

Well-Known Member
Quite a lot of Arabs see Arafat as a pioneer for Palestine and he did win a Nobel Peace Prize. His current party (Fatah) is pretty good compared to Hamas.

Strangely Arafat was friends with both Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Arafat had an opportunity to create a legitimate and recognized Palestinian state. He turned it down.

I think Yasser Arafat has too much blood on his hands to qualify as a good person. Still, he was a high-profile figure, arguably one of the most familiar and arguably popular faces involving active Middle East politics in the 80s.
 
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