Arafat died on November 11, 2004, after falling ill the previous month. For many, Arafat remains a powerful embodiment of the Palestinian cause, which he spearheaded for almost four decades. |
Medical files released for the first time Thursday portray Yasser Arafat as a robust 75-year-old whose sudden health crisis, a month before his mysterious 2004 death, was initially blamed on viral gastroenteritis. Arafat murdered? evidence is not always required for the public to formulate an opinion.The veracity of the Qaddoumi’s report on Arafat’s murder Farouq Al-Qaddoumi, the secretary-general of the Fat’h central committee has accused the Israelis, the Americans of conspiring with the Palestinian leadership to assassinate Yasser Arafat. Farouq Al-Qaddoumi, the secretary-general of the Fat’h central committee, on Wednesday renewed his charges against Mahmoud Abbas and Mohamed Dahlan of liquidating late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat, stressing that he does not recognize the current Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership in Ramallah. Al Jazeera The charge by Mr. Qaddoumi has created quite a rift among the Palestinians. Of course the murder accusation against the Israelis and the Americans are nothing new. The charges against other Palestinians are also not new. Mr. Arafat’s wife accused other Palestinians of conspiring with the Israelis in the murder of her husband. In his reply to a question about the reason for not uncovering such information before, the Fat’h leader said that he waited until he had more evidence about the PA’s conduct, adding that he also intended to reveal the documents during the sixth Fatah conference that could be held abroad, but after Abbas decided to hold it under the occupation, he found it necessary to reveal them at this time. The Fat’h leader also noted that he wrote a statement illustrating the violations of regulations and laws committed by Abbas in addition to other acts he did against the Palestinian people’s interests. Al Jazeera The question of the death of Mr. Arafat has intrigued writers from across the planet. The Jerusalem Report defines it in the following manner. Qaddoumi presented the reporters with a summary of the ostensible protocol in which Sharon allegedly told Abbas and Dahlan that they must also work toward eliminating the political and military leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah’s armed wing, the AqsaMartyrs Brigades, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Sharon was also quoted – according to the “protocol” – as telling Abbas and Dahlan that the first step should be to kill Arafat with poison. Many Palestinians are still convinced that Arafat, who died of an unknown disease in November 2004, had been poisoned by some of his top aides on instructions from Israel. Jerusalem Post Many have taken a stab at it. Ramzy Baroud brings our attention to the Qaddoumi report. However Mr. Baroud makes no new revelations in his writings. Who killed Yasser Arafat? When the Palestinian leader was declared dead in a French hospital on Nov. 11, 2004, there was no way of knowing how questions related to his death should be phrased. Was he killed or did he die from old age? If he was killed, then who killed him and why? The “mysterious” nature of his symptoms gave birth to a theory that he was poisoned over a period of time, provided enough evidence that foul play was involved, even accusing some of those closest to him. Although the man’s story has been recorded in the ever-growing chronicle of the Palestinian struggle and Palestinians have somehow moved on, recent breaking news has blown his story wide open once again, breeding new controversy and stories of conspiracy. Nearly five years have passed since Arafat died. During those years, a number of high-ranking Palestinian leaders, especially from the Hamas movement, have been assassinated by Israel in various and consistently gory methods. Among Palestinians, Arafat is referred to like all those killed by Israel, as a “martyr”, an indication of the widespread belief that his death was hardly the result of natural causes. If Arafat was indeed killed and since his death was not caused by an Israeli airstrike or an assassin’s bullet, a key question has been lingering, giving rise to all sorts of answers — who killed Arafat and how? Who Killed Arafat And Why?
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