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Yasir Arafat

was born in 1929. He became chairman of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969. The PLO is a confederation of
Palestine Arab groups that work to establish an Arab state in what was once
Palestine. Most of the area that formed Palestine is now part of Israel.
Arafat claims he was both in Jerusalem in what was then the British
mandate of Palestine but his birth certificate indicates that he was born
in Cairo, Egypt. His full name is: Mohammad Abdel-Raouf Arafat AL-Qudwa
Al-Husseini. He acquired the nickname Yasir which means easygoing as a
teenager. He earned a degree in civil engineering at Cario University, in
Egypt. In the 1950's Arafat helped organize Arab Guerrilla ...

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Israel's rights to exist along side an
independent Palestinian state in territories in Palestine Israel had
occupied after 1967 arab-isreali war. The territories are the Gaza strip
and the west bank. the PLO declared the existence of the state and elected
Arafat it's president. But Israel continued to occupy and in effect govern
the area. In 1993, the PLO-under Arafat's leadership, signed an agreement
with Isreal for the star of a plan for Palestinian self-government for and
Israel's withdrawals from the Gaza strip and the west bank. In 1994, this
plan went into effect in the Gaza strip and the west bank city of Jericho.
The PLO and Israel also gave recognition to each other and agreed to work
to end their conflicts. Arafat and Israel leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon
Peres shared the 1994 Nobel peace prize for their peace efforts in the
middle east.
On December 10, 1994, the Palestinian and Israeli leaders met again
this time in Oslo, Norway. And once again the world looked ...

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