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Yasser Arafat
or
Yassir Arafat
(
Arabic
: ???? ??????) (
24 August
1929
?
11 November
2004
), born
Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini
(???? ??? ?????? ?????? ???????) an kent bi the
kunya
Abu `Ammar
(??? ?????) an aw, wis the first Preses o
Palestine
. He wis Preses o the
Palestine Liberation Organisation
(PLO) frae
1969
tae
2004
. In
1993
he becam
preses
o the
Palestinian National Authority
(PNA) an aw.
In 1994, Arafat wis ane o the three recipients o the
Nobel Peace Prize
. The ithers wis
Israelis
Yitzhak Rabin
an
Shimon Peres
, for the negotiations at
Oslo
. Baith got the prize for their peace ettles in the
Middle Aest
.
The views o him is dividit. Some fowk sees him as a hero, that focht for the cause o the Palestinian fowk. Ithers sees him as a terrorist, that promotit the uise o veeolence for tae win til his ettles. Still ithers thinks he wis a chairismatic leader, but he made ower mony concessions tae the Israeli govrenment.