arafat in English
noun
family name (Arabic); Yassir Arafat (1929-2004), Palestinian leader and politician, chairman of the P.L.O., winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres
Use "arafat" in a sentence
1. US vetos UN resolution not to expel Arafat.
2. On 12 October, Moussa Arafat, cousin of Yasser Arafat and a top security official in the Gaza Strip, survived a car bomb assassination attempt.
3. Arafat immediately began to equivocate, asking for clarifications.
4. Arafat is the most responsible for the failure.
5. What is the karma between Arafat and Sharon?
6. Arafat has urged his people to refrain from violence.
7. Two pilots and an engineer were killed; Arafat was bruised and shaken.
8. Over time, Arafat has accumulated well over $ # billion in personal wealth
9. His ( Arafat ) traditional mentors were now set to divest themselves of him.
10. The following year, Arafat and Rabin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Shimon Peres.
11. Arafat was reluctant to respond with force, but many other Fatah and PLO members felt otherwise.
12. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the PLO , addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations.
13. But whether Arafat willed it or not, the bombings intensified last week, temporarily putting the Bushlet’s speech on hold
14. One conspiracy theory holds that Arafat initiated the violence less to defeat Israel than to deflect growing discontent over the PA ' s failures .
15. In 1994 Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, for the negotiations at Oslo.
16. Arafat became the President and Prime Minister of the PNA, the Commander of the PLA and the Speaker of the PLC.
17. Secret negotiations with Yasser Arafat's PLO organization led to the Oslo Accords, which won Peres, Rabin and Arafat the Nobel Peace Prize.
18. True, Yasser Arafat was not a model democrat, but his charisma and political acumen were crucial for holding all the Palestinian factions together.
19. Arafat, bowing to pressure from Arab governments, publicly condemned the hijackings and suspended the PFLP from any guerrilla actions for a few weeks.
20. In 1974, the PNC approved the Ten Point Program (drawn up by Arafat and his advisers), and proposed a compromise with the Israelis.
21. Pilgrims perform a series of rituals including walking around the Kaaba, standing vigil on Mount Arafat and a ritual Stoning of the Devil.
22. Even a cursory analysis of the events of the past # days indicates that Chairman Arafat has abjectly failed to do so
23. For his role in the creation of the Oslo Accords, Rabin was awarded the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres.
24. They set up roadblocks, publicly humiliated Jordanian police forces, molested women and levied illegal taxes – all of which Arafat either condoned or ignored.
25. They must gather at the plain of Arafat... perform a symbolic rejection of the devil at the Jamraat...and circle Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba.
26. Israel attempted to assassinate Arafat on a number of occasions, but has never used its own agents, preferring instead to "turn" Palestinians close to the intended target, usually using blackmail.
27. We calculate that the Zionists desire (a) the “Quislingization” of Arafat and (b) the conversion of the PLO into the equivalent of the Collaborationist Guarde Mobile of Nazi-occupied France
28. Palestinian leader Arafat earlier also called for "no more wars, " and expressed his belief that he can reach a peace agreement with the hardliner Israeli Prime Minister Sharon.
29. ( 1 ) Fifteen years after Oslo supposedly ended the state of war , four years after Mahmoud Abbas took over and supposedly improved on Arafat ' s abysmal record , the PLO publicly maintains it remains at war with Israel .
30. Adam's Peak A mountain in Ceylon where, according to Muslim legend, Adam Bewailed his expulsion from Paradise, standing on one foot for two hundred years to expiate his crime; Gabriel then took him to Mount Arafat, where he found Eve.