Yitzhak Rabin
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1 day ago · Previously, Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and besieged Beirut to force out Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organisation. It then occupied southern Lebanon, with the help of local militias, withdrawing only in 2000. However, the departure from Lebanon of the PLO gave rise to an even more formidable enemy for Israel in the form of Hezbollah.
2 days ago · Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, U.S. President Bill Clinton, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat walk at Camp David, Maryland, on July 11, 2000. Stephen Jaffe/AFP via Getty Images. In March ...
4 days ago · He brought up Yasser Arafat, former chairman of the PLO, which later became the PA. “I was in his meeting when he gave my father the authority to blow up markets, buses, and beaches during the ...
1 day ago · During the Second Intifada, there was national unity and official support from then-President Yasser Arafat. Today, we have a united younger generation from all factions, which overcame political divisions but still faces challenges from both the Palestinian Authority and Israeli authorities."
3 days ago · Thus, while Arafat talked peace to Israel, Islamist Hamas launched a suicide bombing campaign that killed dozens of non-combatant Israelis. Reminiscing, in March 2024, Arafat’s top aid Yasser Abdrabbo said that the PLO chief encouraged Hamas’s violence believing that he could use it as leverage to force more concessions on Israel.
6 days ago · PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as U.S. President Bill Clinton stands between them after the signing of the Israel-PLO peace accord at the White ...
2 days ago · Barak accepted the Clinton plan, and Arafat rejected it and, per Hillary Clinton, returned home and launched an intifada that would claim the lives of 1,000 Israelis, most of them civilians.
