Government calls for forming international committee to investigate the killing of Yasser Arafat

[ PIC 08/11/2013 – 08:15 PM ] GAZA, BEIRUT, RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Youssef Rizqa, political advisor to Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza, called for forming an international committee to investigate the killing of President Yasser Arafat. Rizqa ruled out that the PA will open an investigation to uncover Arafat’s killers, “because the Israeli entity will not […]

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VIDEO | Scientists find lethal level of Polonium in Yasser Arafat remains

Published on Nov 6, 2013 BY PressTV Swiss forensic scientists find high levels of a poisonous radioactive substance in the remains of the late Palestinian Authority chief, Yasser Arafat. Forensic tests have shown a lethal level of polonium-210 in his corpse. Last year, Arafat’s widow, Suha said her late husband was poisoned to death with […]

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Mashaal, Haniyeh visit Arafat’s sister in Gaza

Maan News Agency | Dec 9, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal and prime minister Ismail Haniyeh visited the sister of late president Yasser Arafat on Sunday, Ma’an’s correspondent said. The senior Hamas officials were accompanied by several other group members on the visit to Khadija Arafat’s home. Hamas official Izzat al-Rishiq […]

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International Law Legal Intifada by Palestinians Against Israel (Must Read)

Why the US Threatened to Cut Off Aid to the Palestinians if They Pursued and Were Granted Observer Status at the UN An Interview With Professor Francis Boyle By Dennis Bernstein | Sabbah Report | Dec 4, 2012 Francis A. Boyle meeting with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat at the Presidential Compound in Gaza in December […]

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Arafat sister: Don’t exhume late leader’s body

July 13, 2012 Updated 17:17 Source: Ma’an News Agency GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A sister of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is not among those, including his widow, calling for the Palestinian Authority to exhume the body in the wake new questions about his death. “Leave him to rest in his soil,” Khadija Arafat said […]

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P.A. Agrees to Arafat Exhumation

Monday July 09, 2012 16:34 by Circarre Parrhesia – IMEMC & Agencies The Palestinian Authority has on Monday agreed to the exhumation of late president Yasser Arafat’s body following the recent exposé by the al-Jazeera network. Arafat speaking at the World Economic Forum, 2001 – photo courtesy of the World Economic Forum The recent al-Jazeera […]

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Israel’s Lethal History with Polonium ~ by Richard Silverstein

by Richard Silverstein | at Tikun Olam | on July 7, 2012 With news breaking in Al Jazeera this week about the possible poisoning of Yasser Arafat by polonium, I thought it worthwhile to examine an interesting line in Clayton Swisher’s report, which refers to an accident in an Israeli lab involving the material.  Through […]

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Poisoning Arafat: Ariel Sharon and the Jewish settlements enterprise

By Uri Avnery | at Redress |  7 July 2012 Uri Avnery recalls Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s journey from national liberation fighter to peace warrior and argues that Arafat’s quest for peace, which if successful would have posed a mortal danger to the Jewish settlements, is what led the Israelis to poison him. For me, […]

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Khreisheh accuses some PA leaders of being involved in Arafat’s assassination

[ 06/07/2012 – 11:45 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Hassan Khreisheh, the Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Committee (PLC) and the member in the committee investigating former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s death, stated that some PA leaders were involved in Arafat’s death caused by radioactive polonium. Khreisheh told the Saudi “al-Shark” newspaper that some Palestinian, […]

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Originally posted on Desertpeace:
Arafat had suffered intestinal inflammation, jaundice and a blood condition known as disseminated intravascular coagulation, or DIC, according to French medical records. But the records were inconclusive about what brought about DIC, which has numerous causes including infections, colitis and liver disease. * As PA prepares to exhume body, Israel calls…

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Haniyeh calls for an independent Arab Commission to investigate Arafat’s death

[ PIC 05/07/2012 – 11:27 AM ] GAZA,(PIC)– The Palestinian government in Gaza called for the formation of an independent Arab Commission to investigate the death of President Yasser Arafat and to prosecute those responsible for his death after a Swiss Institute found “surprisingly” high levels of polonium-210 in the iconic leader’s clothing following an […]

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Israel’s Killing Spree on Verdun Street

Yasser Arafat sits between Kamal Nasser (L) and Kamal Adwan (R) in this archive photo. (Photo: Al-Akhbar) By: Omar Nashabe | Al Akhbar |  Tuesday, April 10, 2012 On the anniversary of the infamous 1973 raid in the heart of Beirut, Al-Akhbar speaks to contemporaries of the three Palestinian resistance leaders who were assassinated that […]

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Occupy Zionism !

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. The 99% Must Succeed! Occupy DC, Oakland, Atlanta, Boston, Wall Street, Oppression, Zionism, Occupy Everything! by Johnny Punish | Veterans Today | Nov 11, 2011 In the US, we are in the midst of a massive movement that aims directly at the system of government and it’s complete […]

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Yasser Arafat | أبو عمار

Life and times of Yassir Arafat (RIP) August 4, 1929 Born in Cairo, Egypt, the fifth child of Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, a Palestinian merchant. 1933: his mother, Zahwa, dies. Yassir and his infant brother, Fathi, are sent to Jerusalem to live with an uncle…. 1949 Arafat moves back to Cairo, and forms Palestinian Students’ […]

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Yasser Arafat – Hands of Thyme and Stone

YouTube – Yasser Arafat – Hands of Thyme and Stone. For two hands, of stone and of thyme I dedicate this song.. For Ahmad, forgotten between two butterflies The clouds are gone and have left me homeless, and The mountains have flung their mantles and concealed me Music: Marcel Khalife Lyrics: Mahmoud Darwish Album: Ahmad […]

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