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Arafat and the Second Intifada


(Council on Foreign Relations) Elliott Abrams - The PLO and Palestinian Authority have long denied that Yasser Arafat was behind the violent Palestinian uprising that followed on the failure of Camp David in 2000, instead calling the Second Intifada a spontaneous uprising. Now Arafat's widow, Suha, told Dubai TV in an interview in December: "Yasser Arafat had made a decision to launch the Intifada. Immediately after the failure of the Camp David [negotiations], I met him in Paris...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.'" I recall a conversation five years ago with a PA official, whom I asked about a new intifada. He replied that such things do not start spontaneously. The last one started when the Palestinian leadership decided to start it.
2013-01-07 00:00:00
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