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12-29-2012, 03:54 PM
Suha Arafat, the wife of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, admitted in a TV interview earlier this month that the Palestinian terror campaign against Israel launched in 2000 was a premeditated act orchestrated by her husband, not a spontaneous “intifada,” or uprising, as many have claimed.
“Yasser Arafat had made a decision to launch the intifada,” she told Dubai TV on Dec. 16, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
“Immediately after the failure of the Camp David [negotiations], I met him in Paris upon his return. … Camp David has failed, and he said to me: ‘You should remain in Paris.’ I asked him why, and he said: ‘Because I am going to start an intifada. They want me to betray the Palestinian cause. They want me to give up on our principles, and I will not do so.’”
In a summit convened by President Bill Clinton at Camp David in July 2000, Arafat rejected an offer by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barack to create a Palestinian state in the equivalent of roughly 97 percent of the West Bankhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/28/yasser-arafats-widow-admits-palestinian-terror-campaign-in-2000-was-premeditated/#), including land swaps, and all of the Gaza Strip, according (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,50830,00.html) to an account by America’s chief Middle East negotiator at the time, Dennis Ross. East Jerusalem was to be the Palestinian capital.
Though then-Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan reportedly told (http://books.google.com/books?id=Dunx_i1P6fMC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=Prince+Bandar+crime+against+Palestinians+yasser +arafat&source=bl&ots=up3tExzdgu&sig=NTpY9YhXqtxWAE2cdogvGy__7sg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kgXdULarLsOg2QW61YGgAw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Prince%20Bandar%20crime%20against%20Palestinians %20yasser%20arafat&f=false) Arafat that if he rejected the generous offer he would be committing a “crime” against the Palestinian people, Arafat did just that by walking away from the deal. (RELATED: France begins murder investigation after Arafat’s death (http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/28/france-to-begin-murder-investigation-of-arafats-death/))
In September, soon after the Camp David summit ended in failure, the so-called Palestinian intifada began. Many have blamed the start of the uprising on then-leading Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon’s supposedly provocative visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which besides being a holy site to Jews, is also the site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a holy site in Islam.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/28/yasser-arafats-widow-admits-palestinian-terror-campaign-in-2000-was-premeditated/#ixzz2GTqYc24j
“Yasser Arafat had made a decision to launch the intifada,” she told Dubai TV on Dec. 16, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
“Immediately after the failure of the Camp David [negotiations], I met him in Paris upon his return. … Camp David has failed, and he said to me: ‘You should remain in Paris.’ I asked him why, and he said: ‘Because I am going to start an intifada. They want me to betray the Palestinian cause. They want me to give up on our principles, and I will not do so.’”
In a summit convened by President Bill Clinton at Camp David in July 2000, Arafat rejected an offer by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barack to create a Palestinian state in the equivalent of roughly 97 percent of the West Bankhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/28/yasser-arafats-widow-admits-palestinian-terror-campaign-in-2000-was-premeditated/#), including land swaps, and all of the Gaza Strip, according (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,50830,00.html) to an account by America’s chief Middle East negotiator at the time, Dennis Ross. East Jerusalem was to be the Palestinian capital.
Though then-Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar bin Sultan reportedly told (http://books.google.com/books?id=Dunx_i1P6fMC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=Prince+Bandar+crime+against+Palestinians+yasser +arafat&source=bl&ots=up3tExzdgu&sig=NTpY9YhXqtxWAE2cdogvGy__7sg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kgXdULarLsOg2QW61YGgAw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Prince%20Bandar%20crime%20against%20Palestinians %20yasser%20arafat&f=false) Arafat that if he rejected the generous offer he would be committing a “crime” against the Palestinian people, Arafat did just that by walking away from the deal. (RELATED: France begins murder investigation after Arafat’s death (http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/28/france-to-begin-murder-investigation-of-arafats-death/))
In September, soon after the Camp David summit ended in failure, the so-called Palestinian intifada began. Many have blamed the start of the uprising on then-leading Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon’s supposedly provocative visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which besides being a holy site to Jews, is also the site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a holy site in Islam.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/28/yasser-arafats-widow-admits-palestinian-terror-campaign-in-2000-was-premeditated/#ixzz2GTqYc24j