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Suha Arafat: The 2000 Intifada Was Premeditated, Planned by Arafat

Yasser Arafat’s wife, Suha came clean and told Dubai TV her husband planned the intifada right after the Camp David talks collapsed. Unlike Imad Faluji, she heard this straight from Yasser himself. The intifada wasn’t…

Pesach Benson
December 26, 2012
12:00 am

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Yasser Arafat’s wife, Suha came clean and told Dubai TV her husband planned the intifada right after the Camp David talks collapsed.

Unlike Imad Faluji, she heard this straight from Yasser himself. The intifada wasn’t really about Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount.

Say it ain’t so!

Featured image: screenshot by YouTube/MEMRI TV

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Tags: al-Aqsa intifada, Ariel Sharon, Imad Faluji, Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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