Arafat, the tyrant of the world - looking back at the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, has a history of a hundred years. Despite the profound disasters brought to the Palestinian people by successive wars in the Middle East, the Palestinian benevolent men and women have never stopped fighting for national liberation. Under the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Palestinian people are engaged in a variety of armed struggles, both inside and outside the country.
During this period, there was a legendary figure dressed in a dark green kaji cloth military uniform, wearing a black checkered Arab turban, and a pair of brown leather boots on his feet, who often came and went in and out of the Middle East countries.
Arafat was born in Jerusalem in 1929, when the contradictions between Palestine and Israel were already quite prominent, and sometimes some small-scale conflicts occurred, and Arafat witnessed the suffering of the Palestinian people in this contradiction and conflict, which made him determined to fundamentally resolve this contradiction and truly achieve peace in the Middle East.
When the First Middle East War broke out in 1948, Arafat, at the age of 19, joined the coalition forces fighting against Israel. Flesh and blood, he rushed to the forefront of the anti-Israel struggle. After the defeat of the Coalition, he fled to Egypt with his family and later settled in the Gaza Strip, but the defeat of the Coalition drove nearly a million Palestinians out of their homes and became homeless refugees, which deeply touched Arafat's heart.
In 1950, Arafat entered Cairo University in Egypt to study civil engineering, which also laid the foundation for his future military career. In 1961, he traveled to Kuwait to secretly establish the "Storm Commando" with his former comrades-in-arms Abu, Gerrard and others. This organization has taken the task of opposing Israel and saving the dead as its mission, gradually accumulating strength, developing and growing, and becoming the backbone of the anti-Israel struggle in the future.
In March 1962, Arafat led the Storm Commando to fire the first shots of the anti-Israeli armed struggle in the occupied lands. Since then, in the vast and chaotic land of the Middle East, the PLO led by Arafat has composed a song of "anti-Israel salvation" that can be sung and wept.
Arafat, a legendary national leader, was born and died in the war leading the Palestinian people for national liberation. Repeatedly plotted and turned the danger into a disaster, which can be described as "auspicious star high light". He was once the number one target of assassination by the Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad.
The Mossad is an internationally leading intelligence agency dedicated to gathering intelligence and engaging in all kinds of murders. The cleverness of the means and the cunning of the deeds are indeed unbelievable.
On October 1, 1985, after receiving accurate information from the "Mossad", the Israeli military dispatched 9 F-16 fighter jets and two Boeing tankers to attack the PLO site in the southern suburbs of the Tunisian capital in an attempt to kill Arafat, but Arafat changed his original plan due to the temporary emergency mission, so that the "Mossad" flew through the air and miraculously escaped the doom.
Another time Arafat was giving a public speech when suddenly, a grenade rolled out of the crowd with thick smoke, and the public was stunned, and even his entourage had time to react, thinking that it was doomed. I don't know whether it was "the ghost that sent the gods" or "the Jiren had his own celestial appearance", but the grenade did not explode, and Arafat escaped again.
However, in Arafat's bumpy and difficult life journey, the greatest misfortune was the air flight on April 7, 1992. At that time, Arafat visited Sudan in an An-26 aircraft preparing to visit the Palestinian guerrilla training base there in the Sarah region of southern Libya.
Halfway through, it suddenly encountered a huge sandstorm that had not been encountered for decades, and the plane suddenly lost control, like a broken kite, and the fuselage was cut off into three crews, and all the entourage were killed, while Arafat only scratched a little skin. Later, when the reporter asked Arafat about this matter, he calmly and humorously said that "Allah cannot bear to let me go until the Palestinian cause is completed."
Arafat spent his life in the cause of Palestinian liberation. In order to achieve Palestinian-Israeli peace, on September 13, 1993, Arafat united and mobilized all positive forces, despite the opposition of the opposition and the obstruction of the radicals, resolutely embarked on the road of shaking hands with Israel and making peace.
On the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Arafat took the initiative to extend his hand to his old rival Rabin in warm applause, bringing hope to the Middle East and the Palestinian people, and Arafat was also praised as the "Star of Hope for Palestine". In 1994, Arafat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for this "historic handshake."
Arafat's life is a legendary life, and even his marriage and family are strongly legendary. It is said that Arafat also had lovers when he was young, but for the sake of the national liberation cause in Palestine, in order to devote himself fully to the cause he loved, he resolutely gave up the idea of marriage and made the decision not to marry for the rest of his life.
He has lived a celibate life for decades, claiming that "the Palestinian cause is his wife and lover." Of course, Arafat is not an inedible human fireworks, he is also a flesh-and-blood man.
In 1988, when the PLO decided to abandon the struggle and take the road of peace talks, he met Suha, who was 34 years younger than him, and in November 1991, he finally found a career and life partner. On July 17, 1995, at the age of 67, Arafat was given a daughter in old age.
Reprinted from Military Digest, by Xu Renpeng
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