You’d think he was still the leader and just gave this interview last week since the struggle for liberation is still going on in 2023. May Allah be pleased with our fearless brother Arafat.
You mean Arabs. Arafat was trained by the kgb and put in place in the West Bank to cause chaos in the region and a strategy to destabilize democracies across the world. The whole Palestinian movement is fraud. A senior plo leader once said there’s no diff between Syrians Jordanians Lebanese and Palestinians. It was only ever used for tactical reasons to oppose isrsels existence. So sick of everyone and their stance with Palestinians who are just Arab settlers no different than Jordanians or Syrians. There’s nothing in Israel that ties them to the land historically.
He was trained by the kgb and put in place to cause chaos and destabilize and create more tension in thee Middle East. He was no freedom fighter. The whole Palestinian movement is based off a lie
well honestly nothing actually changed from both sides since the civil war ended in May 2009. Leaders from both sides have no constructive long time plan to maintain peaceful and stability in the Island. The government is not interested in identifying Tamils and recognizing their fundamental rights. It is actually a mess. overall there is no actual cross fire for now but people just surviving. Thank you for your interest in the issue. @@johnxina5126
@@usernameis9157 He was close with Rajapaksa, because he thought Rajapaksa was native Srilankan race and Prabakaran was immigrant race. But its the opposite. Prabakaran was Eelam Tamil native Srilankan race, and Rajapakse was converted Telugu immigrants who later identified themselves as Sinhalese race. Sadly Yasser Arafat did not realize this fact.
@@michaelb1348 You make no sense. If you live in Palestine no amount of money changes the fact that you are living in occupation/oppression. Money does not take that fact away.
Peace is made by enemies, and almost always by generals. Peace is not made between friends. And when you make peace with your enemy it does not turn you into friends, at least not immediately. But enemies can respect each other. This is what Mandela taught us. On coming out of his 27 year imprisonment, he could have ordered the fighters of the ANC's Umkhonto We Sizwe, its military wing, to kill every white man and woman in sight. He didn't; and many ANC cadres today still believe the road to peace as misguided, that they made too many compromises and that they should have continued fighting. But both sides realized that a military option was just not viable. Even then, many remain bitter and embittered. But Mandela and his colleagues felt a need to rise above their enemies. You can make peace without losing sight of your principles, but doing so while honoring your fight for freedom, and staying true to the principles of a liberation struggle. As the saying goes, making peace requires a courage that rises with danger. Not many have that kind of courage.
I am Greek and in 1923 when Greece gave up its irredentist ambitions to reclaim all of the Byzantine Empire. Pm Venizleos singed a treaty that required that 1.5 million Greek Orthodox people who had been living in Turkey for 100's of years were moved in a population exchange to Greece. Many did not speak Greek beyond the liturgical Greek we all learned attending Church. And 400-500,000 Muslims were removed from Greece, very few speaking Turkish. Neither group was allowed to return to their original location. It was painful, and difficult. But Greece had fought a War for Independence from The Ottoman Empire in the 1800s for 10 long years and won back most of the land on the mainland. In the Balkan Wars in the early 1900s, Greece gained back much more. The conflicts leading up to the agreement led to the slaughter of some 800,000 Greeks and at some point, there has to be peace so that each nation can go forward, develop, and care for their people. It's not easy. My grandmother lived through the Balkan Wars in the Epirus which finally became part of Greece. It was a long ugly struggle. It takes great courage to forge a solution and move forward.
Arafat was such a character. He would be devastated at what has happened to his people since his passing. I hope one day Palestinians can have a country and be able to honour him.
some of the things he said at the interview have so much value, for instance when speaking about the way of the settlers established in 1948 and what happeed since then.
The questions that the interviewer is asking Arafat would not be asked of any other human or political leader in a democratic state anywhere in the world.. it’s incredible to him that the Palestinians would want or need or deserve democracy or self determination.. you can hear it in his voice he doesn’t seem convinced that Palestinians deserve to be seen or treated as humans.. why has Arafat been so hated when all he’s asking is what any other human would ask for his future generations.. todays situation was what he was trying to prevent for Palestinians 💔💔💔💔💔
he protested against the violent way the settlers established in 1948, and what happened since then, which is more of the same. He clearly fought for Palestine's rights, and in a way his example is still alive. Now, in every conflict there is owful things happening and that's why war is so condemnable. But peaceful settle to this conflict is what every reasonable person wanted, sadly Israeli and US politicians are always stimulating the opposite.
Ya but the bible says this it's Jewish land, and since you can't go against god, that is the reason why it's not Arab people's land. Once every Jew returns to Israel, then Jesus can finally come back and send every non believer to hell, and give Jews the chance to finally accept Jesus, so our lord can finally accept them into his kingdom and we call all live in peace, as long as every person on earth accepts Jesus.
today we know those talking points are coordinated and the tone in the voice you hear, indicated what happened, all question rethorical, they never were supposed to get that state and they didnt.
Arafat is and was always my hero, he advocated for my motherland's (Namibia) independence. And the mention of Namibia by him in this interview shows that he had us in mind always. Rest well my hero.
We find in reality though, this: Despite the proliferation of employees, Arafat still made most decisions himself, down to the tiniest details. To take but one example, senior PA officials needing small sums of money to travel to neighboring Jordan could not get the disbursement without Arafat’s signature.45 As one public figure in Gaza explained in August 1994, one month after Arafat’s arrival: "_There is no mechanism that functions in Gaza as it should. One person holds all the authority, and he sticks his nose into each and every detail.... Anybody who needs to install a telephone needs his signature. Anyone who wants to set up a company or further a particular interest has to have Arafat’s approval._" Under these conditions, corruption flourished, fueled not only by run-of-the-mill venality but also by a systemic political motivation: Bolstering loyalty to the man who stood atop the PA hierarchy.
“Do you think Palestine can live peacefully in two states resolution? This reporter made the same question in different forms over and over and over. And Arafat reply was always, yes.
Yassir araffat a fight for freedom. i saw his interview 13 years ago to give freedom to Africa and plestine. Sad all good humanity peoples are gone . Freedome for the world 🌎
I love Arafat , always smiling, even when he was besieged in Beirut with bombs raining down on him from every direction, he was smiling and confident.🇵🇸🇰🇼🫶👏✌️💪♥️
I Remember back in the 80's when I was Young, Yasser Arafat Face was always all over in the News even in Magazines like Time, Newsweek, even in Penthouse and Playboy ( Not in the Cover of course😂) I didn't know what are they fighting about back then. until I listened to Him, Speak Fluent English too! Much Respect, He just want the best for Palestinian People Rest in Power ✌
A poor leader, a thug, speaking from both sides of his mouth, a corrupt politician, a charlatan, a disappointment, a poor example of his own people, actually born in Egypt. May he rot in limbo. 🙂
@@tonyscott1658if israel accepted 181 we wouldn’t be here today. And your last sentence shows you’re just a bigot. Being born in another country doesn’t take away from him being palestinian. If that’s the case half of israel are not Israelis.
He seemed like a cool dude. Im sorry this current thing (and past atrocities happened). I never really understood the situation until recently. I still dont. American politics is aggravating enough. Geo pol is a different story. I personally, disavow my country and Israel for their treatment of the Palestinians. It is not right.
There is nothing more beautiful than listening to an interview with a brave and intelligent man. There is nothing more enjoyable than hearing about the desire for peace from a warrior man. A natural fighter. This is how Arafat and all the men of the Palestine Liberation Organization were. The Palestinians will never forget this man. Despite - and even because of - the many false leaders after him
As a naieve young boy I always liked him, but also believed the media frame. As an older man I see a great human being and an oblivious, nobody journalist. Im sorry if I still sound naive, but look at the setup for this interview. Mr Interviewer is behind a big shiny desk, while the leader of a people is sitting on a chair.. Yet Arafat ate him alive ;) Thanks for the video.
How he's leadership, cool head and experience is missed, especially in the current horrific situation in Israel. may Allah SWT grant him a high place in Jannah.
@@jannikheidemann3805 They are caucasian and the black supremacist I replied to refered to them as his "brothers and sisters" while normally claiming caucasians are gentically inferiour I caucasian doesnt turn black just cause he/she is a muslim
@@rikardandersson5582 Does it matter which race palestinians belong to? Why would fraternity and solidarity among the oppressed have to stop at arbitrary borders between people defined by thier phenetic differences?
Good man and fighter. Stood strong till the very end. We all have to fight for justice and remain strong like this great man. One day the chickens will come home to roost and the people responsible for the evil acts will be held accountable. All of us regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, need to unite under common decency and principles. We all have to live on this earth, let's stop being counterproductive and turn this shit hole we call earth into a paradise like it should be. It's not easy but we cannot be so pessimistic. Yasser Arafat didn't quit and we shouldn't either. Justice for Palestine and all people on this earth!
@@ruthjacobs2714 The mossad put polonium 210 in his underwear and toothbrush. Then Arafat's doctors turned on him and said they couldn't find the cause and the hospital in Egypt said they couldn't find the cause and the hospital in France at the last minute tested him for polonium 210. They were all in on the killing of Yasser Arafat.
Wow, what a genuine nice guy. Rare to see people like this in politics. Makes me think tho, if this guy couldn’t get peace, then who could possibly do it…
he became a billionaire by stealing foreign aid he is a murderer a theif and didn't help his people at all with his corrupt government and if replacement isn't any better
I have heard his name many times in the nineties but I was a child and I did not understand what was happening or who he was. I acknowledge that I had a piece of me that thought badly of home him without ever hearing him speak. He is making so much sense here, and the interviewer is a lazy fool.
What sense is he making? He is promoting violence, rejecting peace and calling for the annihilation of Jews. This strategy caused great misery for the Palestinians.
a murderous psycopath , made millions , closet gay like most modern leaders. brought death , disaster and poverty to his people . Israely arabs despise him
In 2000, President Clinton sat down with former Israeli Prime Minister Barak, Yasser Arafat, basically offered Mr. Arafat 94, 96 percent of the West Bank and he said no, and in effect died a terrorist rather than the first leader of a Palestinian state. What gives us any hope that the Palestinians will make any concessions which can bring about a true peace?
@uploadJ Terrorist lmao, everyone who's against western interests is a terrorist. And 96% of the west bank is still not 100%, would your county except 4% of their land getting taken away?
@@uploadJI’m pretty sure he didn’t advocate for a two-state solution. “Dying as a terrorist” is a crazy, racist assumption to make just because he didn’t want to appease neoliberals.
You should research who invented the Word Palestine. The Romans did It. Palestinians were Jews, Muslims and Christians in that Area. Arafat reinvented the Word just to fit his Agenda and Antisemitism. By the way Arafat is a disgrace for every Muslim.
a murderous psycopath , made millions , closet gay like most modern leaders. brought death , disaster and poverty to his people . Israely arabs despise him
I am a Palestinian, and I am proud everyday more and more, Palestine will be as Arafat planned for us and more!! his school is living in us, and his name and achievements will always be remembered, Rest in peace Abu Ammar!
rest in paradise my dear brother. if today Yasser Arafat was alive Israeli and the entire world would be on their best behavior when it comes to palestine and the entire world. To those of you who are ignorant about the genocide of the Palestine kindly educate yourself Nelson Mondale: " Our freedom is incompletely without the freedom of the Palestine. I know we can trust the words of a man like Nelson Mandela who spent close to 30 years in life for the freedom of his people. Also we shall never forgot how Palestine stood with south Africa during their apartheid unlike any other country. Palestine we stand with you.
a murderous psycopath , made millions , closet gay. like most modern leaders. brought death , disaster and poverty to his people . Israely arabs despise him
IT WAS THE REVOLUTIONARY YASSER ARAFAT TRAINED AND ARMED MY FATHER’S MILITANT GROUP EROS WHO STARTED THE SRILANKAN CIVIL WAR. REST IN POWER. ✊🏽🇵🇸🛡️⚔️ WE ARE ONE.
@dougbarker2227lol he agreed for 2 state solution he was different from other freedom fighters who supported the peaceful process then went for arms struggling against Israel never agreed for 2 state solution peace process with pm yitzhak Rabin Israel is called him traitor & killed him😂
Now, this is real journalism. What is the interviewer's name? One of America's best !!! My brother, Tommy Wayne Wheeler, was on the American USS Liberty Navel Ship AGTR-5, 1967 6-day war that was bombed by Israel. A book by James M. Ennis Jr., and documentaries about the American ship, what happened?The attack lasted for more than two hours by the Israelis killing 34 Americans and wounding 171 others and inflicted 821 and machine guns holes in the ship. And when the Liberty stubbornly reamined afloat despite her damage, Israeli forces machined - gunned her life rafts and sent helicopters to finish the job, At this point, with the Sixth Fleet rescue aircraft was in route, the government of Israel apologized and the attacking forces withdrew. Only then did the identity of the assailants be known. Details were hussed up by both countries. The Johnson administration covered it up with Israel. That 6-day war is when the Golan Heights were taken over. All the American Navel Men had to swear under oaths, never to say what actually happened. Thank you, for reminding me.
Fascinating that the interviewer acknowledges that Palestinian resistance is totally non-violent, but they were still being gunned down by the IDF and its settlers. No wonder he asks how long can Palestinians maintain that strategy.
I like how he compared American people democracy and American Administrator Democracy of being dishonesty in the human world. What a an amazing character and peaceful man he was. May Allah Almighty give him mercy and attain him paradise. Ameen
@@sagi5826he was born in Cairo but to Palestinian parents btw the Palestinian people have always been there dumbass he didn’t take other people from other counties Isreal didn’t even exist before 1948
He was not an ideal man, but he worked hard, struggled, and tried a lot. This man tried to move his people from the stage of persecution and occupation to the stage of freedom and independence through struggle and peace, but Zionist intransigence and American-British complicity were an obstacle to achieving his dream of serving his people. May God have mercy on him and peace be upon his soul
@@jasperchance3382 What did he steal? Who did he murder? His entire life, his land was stolen from under his feet by illegal settlers and Israel. His entire life, his people got murdered. Are you joking? You are a clown.
@@jasperchance3382 Your words are very funny. You are the one who created the revolution and the Palestinian national identity. You are one of the dogs of Hamas
Excellent interview, thank you for posting. This man was very reasonable on what he wanted to accomplish for the Palestinians. "A two State solution with a Democracy and free elections, just like the US, Democracy for the people" and if that was the case he was willing to work with the Israeli settlers. Today, the Palestinians don't have a real leader instead they have a radical terrorist organization Hamas.I'm hoping other Nations step in to resolve this conflict.We are watching live a genocide of innocent Palestinians with the help of the US. And what is worse is that Republicans and Democrats are on this together. Ihan Omar " is all about the Benjamins"
What of the Israelis? Have they ever fulfilled their own part of the bargain? It is jolly shocking that the Israelis are proving to be the most ungrateful folks. They were sheltered and accommodated by Palestinians and look at how they have now turned the Palestinians.
@@ismailhashim66377 times Israel has proposed the deals and this man in this interview rejected one of them that was more then generous . But everything is the fault of the Jewish state
@@LosFace24 Please Sir, review your position. We have been following this debacle. Read the Jewish Professor, Ilan Pappe's "The Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians".
@@ismailhashim6637 7 times a deal has been proposed and all 7 times they have been rejected by radical extrmeists that don’t care about their own civilians whom they torture psychologically
I grew up in the 80s and remember seeing him on TV and buying into western media that he was a terrorist and a garbage human and it turns out she wasn’t. I wish I would’ve paid attention more.
General Salute to Yasser Arafat. The western world did and will do everything in its power to paint and depict men like Arafat. Gaddafi. Sadam as evil, but it is the western world that has perpetrated more evil upon the earth than the devil himself. Bless you always brotha Arafat.
the arrogance and conceit radiated by the interviewer seem to be crumbling on the flight as they meet the outward simplicity and apparent sincerity of his interviewee.
