11 November 2004 was a sad and dim day for Palestinian nationals.
Because Arafat, who led them through four Middle Eastern wars, the Battle of Karama, and the nobel peace prize winner, Arafat, died on this day.
Prior to that, he had personally issued the Declaration of Palestinian Independence, which was regarded by the Palestinian people as a spiritual symbol.
This proud son of Heaven, known as Palestine, was baptized by artillery fire.
In his lifetime, he faced as many as fifty-seven assassinations by the Israeli assassination agency "Mossad", and bombs, car accidents, spies and other means were endless.
But without exception, he was all dodged by Arafat, and because of this, he had an extra title - the Middle East Undead Bird.
His life is legendary.
But what is more enjoyable than his legendary life's experience is his marriage.
After all, Arafat had previously vowed to fight for the liberation of Palestine all his life and never marry, but in the year of huajia, he married a beautiful wife who was 33 years younger than himself.
Originally, I thought that this was a beautiful marriage, and when Arafat was sick, this beautiful wife Suha was indeed always by Arafat's side like an ordinary virtuous wife, booing and greeting warmth, not abandoning.
But just after Arafat's death, Suha's attitude took a sharp turn for the worse, and he even said bluntly in the face of the reporter's interview: "If I can have the opportunity to choose again, I will never marry Arafat again, this is a mistake, we have been married for 22 years, but I always feel like 50 years have passed..."
So what happened to Make Suha's attitude the opposite of what happened during Arafat's lifetime? And why, about the cause of Arafat's death, there are also many opinions?
The cause of the incident also begins with the encounter between Arafat and Suha.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" >01 The first encounter</h1>
Suha, born in Palestine, was a well-known local farmer who owned a large estate and a luxurious castle; her mother was a prominent Tunisian family who ran a news agency; and her father was a banker.
Suha himself, a graduate of the University of Paris in France, received a master's degree in political science.
It can be said that before he met Arafat, Suha was a rich man with no compromises, both talented and powerful.
So, how did the two seemingly inextricably intersect with each other and enter the palace of marriage?
In 1983, when Suhašan was indulging in the fashionable atmosphere of the romantic capital of Paris, Arafat had begun more than a decade of running between Tunisia and France in order to turn the military conflict with Israel into peace negotiations, hoping to solve the problem satisfactorily through a third-country environment.
In 1988, when Arafat was attending an international conference, he met Suha, who was just 24 years old, and when they first met, Suha's beautiful appearance left an indelible impression on Arafat.
Although Suha was already married to a lawyer at this time, this did not prevent Arafat from falling in love with him at first sight.
To Arafat's delight, on his visit to France the following year, he met the long-cherished Suha again, and after soliciting Suha's advice, Arafat formally invited Suha to serve as secretary and translator.
After this, the two spent time together day and night, and their feelings were secretly born. Soon after, the two fell in love in secret. However, when Arafat mentioned that he wanted to marry Suha, this move was greatly opposed by the Suha family.
One is because the Suha family believes in Christianity, and Arafat is an out-and-out Islamist, if the two are united, Suha is bound to break away from Christianity and convert to Islam; the second is that Arafat's sensitive identity and the eldest Suha is 33 years old, this marriage is harmful to the Suha family.
But how could Arafat give up so lightly?
According to Suha, "He was highly sought after, and in Palestine there were many women who wanted to marry him, but he only wanted to marry me, even though my family was strongly opposed." ”
This tug-of-war finally ended with Arafat holding a beautiful person. The two met four years later, in 1991, suha's birthday, the day of their secret marriage.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" >02 Marriage that cannot be declared</h1>
As mentioned above, Arafat vowed not to marry for the sake of the Palestinian revolution.
He said: "I am also just a mortal, and I also want to have a wife and children, but what I am doing is a hard and time-consuming struggle, and it is unfair to any woman to be with me." ”
Palestine was indeed his everything to him at that time, but after the appearance of Suha, Arafat's previous vows collapsed overnight.
Therefore, in order not to let the public talk about it and protect arafat's image, at the beginning of this marriage, Suha did make great concessions and sacrifices.
First there was the issue of religion, and after marrying Arafat, Suha had to break away from the Orthodox Church he had been believing in since childhood and join Islam.
This meant abandoning her favorite Parisian fashion and wrapping her supple blonde hair and figure tightly under the cloth scarf that symbolized Islamic women.
And the balls, the bars, the elegant cafés, the leisurely upper class life in France, after that, had nothing to do with her.
The second is arafat's inability to proclaim marriage to all.
Because of Arafat's vows, the marriage had to be kept secret. Although Suha was Arafat's legally recognized wife, in the eyes of the public, she was still only Arafat's assistant.
Even when Suha's mother heard rumors flying to Tunis to question Suha what the relationship was with Arafat, Suha remained silent. This kind of concealment makes Suha suffer all the time.
After marriage, Suha did not get the happy life she had longed for, and she never even had Arafat for a day.
On April 7, 1992, Arafat was tragically hit by a sandstorm at the airport to Tunisia, the plane was missing, Arafat was missing, the public panicked, and the news of Arafat's death became more and more intense.
The streets of Palestine are filled with crying, and the country is in chaos.
But what makes Suha feel deeply sad is that because the two secretly married and deliberately concealed, no one in the whole of Palestine knows that Arafat has a wife, and no one comforts her.
She was left alone in her small apartment at 39 Rue Tozeur, looking at Arafat's picture and weeping silently, praying that he would be safe.
Not only that, but Suha also had to move from time to time to escape the surveillance of Arafat's political enemies and hide in Tibet.
This series of changes made this Miss Qianjin, who had never suffered half a bitter, miserable, and in hiding again and again, she gradually understood that as Arafat's secret wife, this title was worthless, and her tolerance and restraint were meaningless.
In his autobiography, Suha once said: "I married a 'enigmatic' man, although it was a legally recognized marriage, but I lived like a mistress. ”
Later, Suha finally waited for the news that Arafat had been rescued, and as a wife, she had to rush to the hospital to take care of her seriously injured husband.
At this time, the Palestinian people and the libyan government high-ranking official Gaddafi and others agreed that Arafat was able to be safe and sound because of the apparition of Allah.
They poured into the ward to congratulate Arafat on his escape and take a group photo with him. At this time, no one could care about Suha, who had cared for Arafat for two days and two nights in the ward.
After returning to Tunisia after recovering, Arafat accepted a grand welcome ceremony from the President of Tunisia. Although Suha did not meet with her husband with senior Tunisian officials, the PLO and ambassadors, the good reporters still understood Suha's identity.
Under the gathering of a large number of magnesium lamps, this secret marriage buried in the ground has finally been moved to the surface.
For Suha, this is long-awaited good news, but even with a bright and upright identity, for Suha, life has not changed much.
For example, the influx of insults is not cold to the Palestinian people who have dragged their hero off the altar of Suha; for example, life is no different from when marriage is hidden. For example, the countless assassinations surrounding Arafat's side, day and night.
Suha flinched; Suha changed.
The Palestinian populace soon discovered that the first lady of her country did what she did was incompatible with the country's customs, customs, and doctrines of etiquette.
In public, Suha no longer wears a cloth scarf that covers her face and figure, she picks up the fashion she once left behind, no longer restrains her sharp edge, puts on the latest and most fashionable clothing, drives a luxury car, and wanders the streets of Palestine.
The consequence of this is that the people retort loudly. In order to calm public opinion, Suha had to go to the refugee camp to engage in charity activities during pregnancy to save some image.
Later, when she accompanied Arafat on a visit to Shaga, Suha happened to be in labor, and Suha, who had endured for a long time, immediately said that the medical facilities in Palestine were backward and it was not a good choice to give birth here, so she went to Paris in the name of production.
After arriving in Paris, Suha gave birth to a daughter, Zahwa, but unfortunately, shortly after Zahwa was born, he was diagnosed with leukemia.
In this regard, Suha was half worried and half happy.
The worry is that her daughter will suffer from illness at a young age; fortunately, she can stay in Paris on this pretext, where she has the comfortable life she dreamed of; here, she no longer has to suppress her nature, go to bars, dances, and enjoy life.
According to reports, during his life in Paris, Suha never spent a night with his daughter Zahwa in the hospital.
Instead, she often wore lavish and extravagant dresses and shuttled through the high-end reception scenes in Paris; near the Champs-Élysées in France, Suha bought a mansion worth millions of dollars and countless luxury cars; but she often lived in a luxury hotel in Paris, renting as much as 8700 pounds a night...
In the full four years since, she has not returned to Palestine once. Also, compared with the strict and economically backward Palestine, the fashionable and romantic Paris is her best destination.
In the middle of this, Arafat had been besieged by Israel in Ramallah, and the road ahead of Palestine was unknown, but Suha still had an attitude of not caring about himself, singing night and night in Paris.
As a result, the Palestinian people, who did not like Suha, hated her more and more; some senior Palestinian officials ridiculed her as the "first lady of France".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" >03 Suha with a sudden transformation</h1>
In September 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Sharon ascended the Temple Mount, a religious shrine in Jerusalem.
The move quickly provoked the anger of the Palestinian population, and on the day of Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount, there were several large-scale demonstrations, bloody clashes, and even more radicals protesting Sharon's trip to the Temple Mount with suicide bombings.
On December 3 of the same year, Sharon, unwilling to swallow this breath, ordered the Israeli army to storm Ramallah, and Palestinian President Arafat was besieged in the city.
This fence is three years long. Under siege by the Israeli army, the entire city of Ramallah not only had difficulty maintaining the most basic communications with the outside world, but also had difficulty maintaining the food, water, and electricity on which it depended.
On October 27, 2004, Arafat suddenly vomited and fainted at a regular meeting, the whole process was only ten minutes, but after the doctor's timely diagnosis, the cause of Alphat's illness was not known.
To reassure the people, in the afternoon, Palestinian officials announced that the president was fine and was just plagued by ordinary pneumonia, which was not very convincing for the Palestinian people, who had been besieged by the Israeli army for three years.
Who can believe that a president in the mouth of a wolf pack can be safe and sound?
On 29 October 2004, under pressure from international public opinion, the Israeli Government promised arafat that arafat would be free to leave the country if only for the sake of illness, at which point Arafat was able to fly to Paris for treatment.
When Arawat arrived in Paris, Suha, as his wife, could not ignore it. When Arawat was seriously ill, Suha kept her husband by her side and took good care of him.
Regrettably, on November 11 of the same year, Arawat passed away due to his deteriorating condition.
This is undoubtedly bad news for the Palestinian people, who are also skeptical about arafat's death.
Because, in their eyes, the president is the god in their hearts, after many assassinations, he is still safe, but why did he inexplicably lose his life in the three years of being besieged by Israel?
Therefore, in the hearts of the Palestinian people, it is the Israeli assassination agency "Mossad" that assassinated the President, and sympathizes with Suha, who has just lost his husband.
But since then, Suha's actions have completely chilled the Palestinian people.
After Arafat's death, Suha first tried to defile the public opinion and held a hasty funeral for her husband. After her husband's funeral, she quickly contacted the Palestinian Authority, hoping that she would inherit the billions of dollars left by Arafat.
The people then understood that Suha took care of Arafat when he was seriously ill, and then held a hasty funeral ceremony in order to be able to reasonably inherit her husband's property.
However, what makes the people wonder is that Arafat's life has been simple and simple all his life, so where do these billions of dollars of assets come from?
Moreover, in 1993, the Palestinians had concluded the Oslo Peace Agreement with Israel, which included a provision in which the Government of Israel undertook to deposit value-added tax on the purchase of goods by Palestinians into the Palestinian national treasury.
Before 2000, the money was transferred directly to Arafat's private account at the Remy Bank.
It is therefore difficult to say how many of these billions of dollars belong to the Assets of the Palestinian State and how much of them belong to Arafat's personal assets.
If the source of funds cannot be traced, it is naturally inseparable, and Suha's wishful thinking has also failed.
However, although the Palestinian Authority refused Suha's request to inherit the inheritance, it still paid Suha a pension of twenty million US dollars in the face of the late President Arafat, and promised to pay Suha thirty-five thousand euros per month to support Princess Zahwa.
But if Suha accepts the money, he is not allowed to express his political views on any occasion.
Suha certainly knew that what he was doing was greatly displeased the Palestinian people, but what did it matter?
Receiving a pension and maintenance, she did not hesitate to take her daughter back to her hometown of Tunis, and as the wife of the former Palestinian president, she defected to Arafat's former friend, Tunisian Prime Minister Ben Ali.
Running for the responsibility of caring for the widow and young daughter of an old friend, Ben Ali gave Suha a luxurious villa and let his wife Lyra accompany her from time to time.
It was also during this time that Suha fell silent, making raising her daughter Zahwa her first priority.
Therefore, she declared to the outside world that Zahwa was the only descendant of Arafat, so she should inherit her father's legacy and learn the history and culture of Arab countries while receiving Western education.
Suha's behavior quickly won people's favor, and Suha and his daughter also acquired Tunisian citizenship, and if things continue to develop, it will be satisfactory.
In 2006, However, Suha was caught up in a peach-colored news affair with Elaussan Trabrusi, the younger brother of the Tunisian president's wife, Lyra.
As soon as this news was reported, it caused a shock in Palestine, and the PLO also protested to Ben Ali, but Ben Ali did not embarrass Suha when he saw the face of his former friend.
But after that, Suha acted more and more boldly.
In 2007, when Suha visited Libya, he directly borrowed money from Libyan leader Gaddafi, who naturally promised generously, and at the same time called Li Aben and asked him why he could not take good care of the widow and young daughter of his old friend.
In the face of questioning, Li Aben was extremely embarrassed, and because of this, his patience with Suha was stretched to the limit.
On 7 August 2007, he revoked Sukha's Tunisian citizenship and froze all of Suha's assets in Tunisia.
In 2011, Tunisia also issued an international arrest warrant for Suha involved in the corruption of the former Tunisian First Lady Lyra's corrupt business dealings.
In this regard, Suha naturally refused to compromise. She condemned Tunisia's previous injustices as a conspiracy against the Palestinians. In the face of public opinion, Tunisia had no choice but to expel Suha's mother and daughter.
Gaddafi then took on the responsibility of caring for Suha's mother and daughter and bought a mansion worth 1 million euros for Suha's mother and daughter on the island of Malta.
In the middle of this, although there is also the reason for friendship with Arafat, it is more important to win a good reputation for himself in the Arab countries.
But after Gaddafi's death, Suha's attitude changed again.
At this time, 9 years after Arafat's death, in an interview with reporters, Suha said that she regretted her union with Arafat, and if she had another chance, she would not make such a choice.
She even stressed that she had tried to escape her husband on several occasions, but her personal freedom had been restricted, several references to divorce Arafat had been rejected, and that she had never seen the pensions stated by the Palestinian Government.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" >04 conclusion</h1>
On November 27, 2012, Suha overturned his previous claims, insisting that her husband had died of polonium poisoning, so Arafat's body was re-exhumed and tested by doctors in France, Switzerland, and Russia.
But the results of the test remain elusive, as doctors in Switzerland say arafat has the possibility of polonium poisoning, but doctors in Russia and France adamantly deny it.
True or false, the facts are difficult to distinguish.
But Suha's move was spurned by the Palestinian people, money, fame and fortune left her one by one, and I don't know if Suha will regret what she has done before in her spare time.
As for the acquaintances and encounters and love and reunions of that year, only Suha himself can understand the taste.