Yasser Arafat: Father of Modern Terrorism
“I come bearing and olive branch in one hand, and a freedom fighters gun in the other. Don't let the olive branch fall from my hand.” This was Yasser Arafat’s most famous quote spoken when he addressed the United Nations. This was his life, a constant battle to try to gain that olive branch, freedom for Palestine, through way of the freedom fighter’s gun or war. He was fighting a losing battle, losing more men than Israel was. Yet through all this he continued to fight. He was injured often, but continued to fight. He was devoted to the Palestinian cause all his life up to his death on November 11, 2004.
Yasser Arafat lost his mother at age 5 and lived with his uncle in Jerusalem for most of his growing up years. His original name was Mohamed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa Al-Husseini. He later moved back to his birthplace, Cairo, and studied engineering at the University of Cairo where people began to call him just Yasser meaning …show more content…
He was involved in things like this all his life. When he was still a teenager he was already smuggling weapons into the country to be used against Jews and the British. His first fighting experience came in 1948 when he was 19 years old in the Arab-Israeli War. Israel won this war and the country of Israel was founded. About ten years later in 1958 Yasser and a few affiliates founded Fatah as a political party and a terrorist power (Biography.com). The word “Fatah” means “conquest by Jihad(Holy Islamic War).” The first terrorist attack carried out by Fatah was 6 years after they were founded in 1964. The Most famous Fatah terrorist attack was carried out by a group known as “Black September.” This attack was known as the “Munich Massacre” at the 1972 olympics in Munich, Germany, killing 11 Israeli athletes (“Fatah”). Despite being set up as a political party, Fatah carried out a number of merciless
“I come bearing and olive branch in one hand, and a freedom fighters gun in the other. Don't let the olive branch fall from my hand.” This was Yasser Arafat’s most famous quote spoken when he addressed the United Nations. This was his life, a constant battle to try to gain that olive branch, freedom for Palestine, through way of the freedom fighter’s gun or war. He was fighting a losing battle, losing more men than Israel was. Yet through all this he continued to fight. He was injured often, but continued to fight. He was devoted to the Palestinian cause all his life up to his death on November 11, 2004.
Yasser Arafat lost his mother at age 5 and lived with his uncle in Jerusalem for most of his growing up years. His original name was Mohamed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa Al-Husseini. He later moved back to his birthplace, Cairo, and studied engineering at the University of Cairo where people began to call him just Yasser meaning …show more content…
He was involved in things like this all his life. When he was still a teenager he was already smuggling weapons into the country to be used against Jews and the British. His first fighting experience came in 1948 when he was 19 years old in the Arab-Israeli War. Israel won this war and the country of Israel was founded. About ten years later in 1958 Yasser and a few affiliates founded Fatah as a political party and a terrorist power (Biography.com). The word “Fatah” means “conquest by Jihad(Holy Islamic War).” The first terrorist attack carried out by Fatah was 6 years after they were founded in 1964. The Most famous Fatah terrorist attack was carried out by a group known as “Black September.” This attack was known as the “Munich Massacre” at the 1972 olympics in Munich, Germany, killing 11 Israeli athletes (“Fatah”). Despite being set up as a political party, Fatah carried out a number of merciless