Arafat: The Biography
- ISBN-10
- 0753508885
- ISBN-13
- 9780753508886
- Series
- Arafat
- Category
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Authors
- Tony Walker, Andrew Gowers
Description
It's over thirty years since Yasser Arafat swept onto the world stage as leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, a machine gun in one hand and an olive branch in the other. In that time he has become many things to many people: terrorist, a Nobel Peace Prize-winner and to the Bush Whitehouse, a Pariah once more. Based on hundreds of frank and revealing interviews with senior Israeli and Palestine officials, including Arafat himself, Arafat: The Biography documents his transition from terrorist to statesman then marginalisation following the tragic collapse of the Oslo Peace Accords. Examining the charge that the bitter personal blood-fued between Arafat and Isreal's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is a major obstacle to peace in the Middle-East, this book separates Arafat the man from Arafat the myth. A penetrating, balanced insight into the international and intelligence links, and the internal machinery, of the Palestinian regime.
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