Something worth mentioning, something that almost never gets mentioned in discussions of Oslo, is that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin _never_ intended to allow the creation of a Palestinian state. In his final speech to the Knesset (Israel's legislature), one month before his assassination, he called for "the State of Israel... alongside a Palestinian entity... an entity which is less than a state..." He wanted to expand settlements within the West Bank. He didn't even accept allowing Palestinian control of East Jerusalem. He basically wanted to allow Palestinians to _believe_ they had a state, when in fact they had a collection of ghettos in the West Bank 22:29 and one giant ghetto called the Gaza Strip. For merely presenting to the world the flimsy facade of a "Palestinian state," Yitzhak Rabin was called a traitor by Netanyahu supporters and assassinated.
"Oslo" has since become a synonym for bad-faith negotiations. Months ago, when the Biden administration was constantly telling the public that the president was "working around the clock" on a ceasefire deal, analyst Mouin Rabbani called the negotiations "an Oslo process for g℮nocid℮." "[A]s with Oslo, the purpose here is process, not its conclusion with an agreement. And as with Oslo, which in 2000 produced the Second Intifada because the charade became impossible to conceal further, the ceasefire process is producing diminishing returns."
@@lisbethgiverhaug9513the Oslo accords expired in 1999, how is it even relevant? Oslo accords were only an interim agreement towards a peaceful settlement of the conflict
@@lisbethgiverhaug9513every world leader is a billionaire tell me one leader that have less then 1m dollars (except for east European leaders during Cold War)
The Israeli right really is insane. Hell, even Trump was criticized by the Yesha council of settlers because he dared entertain the idea of a Palestinian state, however limited it was, in his 2020 plan.
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspiderman If Russia move 3 kilometres into let’s say Mongolia would it still not be deep? Or would leaders across the globe run to condemn the attack, put blockades on them, and cut ties with them? You tell me.
@yuzift8730 "i come with a olive branch in ine hand and a freedom fighters gun in the other ". He's saying, we are offering peace, accept our offer of peace, but know that if you dont, we will die fighting
@@yuzift8730olive branch is synonymous with extending an opportunity for a friendship. He said I have an olive branch on one hand and a gun on the other. Don’t let the olive branch fall from my hand
No they didn't. Nelson Mandela was on the terror watch list until 2008, 18 years after he was released from his prison cell he spent 27 years in. In fact Israel attempted to help the white minority apartheid government of South Africa acquire nuclear weapons.
To all those who stand with us, in a comment, a prayer, a protest, a stand, a thought. We send you love and hope. Do not despair we will continue and call on you to continue with us. The watermelons.
I was in my early teens when all this was going on around me. I was not mature enough to understand then but thank you for taking me on this journey to understand as an adult how the past led to where we are now.
I'm an Indian, Hindu from Malaysia, and I stand with the Palestinian. My heart and soul are with you guys. For me, both Arrafat and Gadaffi are the most inspirational and exemplary leaders from the Middle East that the world should learn from.
During his life time as leader he really did “move the mountain” like what the Chinese did, I hope there will be a future Palestinian leader like him someday.
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspiderman untrue, he did not lead a coup it was a betrayal of the Jordanian regime to remove the Palestinian resistance out of Jordan based on American commands. We all know it, lets not fool leach other after all what have been revealed and what we have seen!
@@codyshi4743 he did nothing good. He made himself rich using the suffering of his own people. How rich? His daughter was born in France, is the only heir to an estimated $8 Billion fortune, and owns an entire street in London. Oh, and she is considered to be a "Palestinian refugee", so she is eligible for UNRWA hand outs. He rejected peace deals and started awful violence, you can read this for more: "Suha Arafat Exhumes Truth About Second Intifada"
@@codyshi4743 he made a huge amount of money from oppressing the Palestinian people. Arafat was Egyptian. His daughter was born in France, is the only heir to an estimated $8 Billion fortune, and owns an entire street in London. Oh, and she is considered to be a "Palestinian refugee", so she is eligible for UNRWA hand outs. Go figure
@@zeldamage001 Yes, a single democratic state where it stood..one where everyone of every ethnicity shares the same rights and people are treated with humanity.
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspidermanhe literally accepted the two state solution and went as far as to recognise Israel and they still fucked him over and he only got dog scraps
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspiderman israel was always going to be more right wing whether PLO existed.thats just an excuse, the same type of excuse israel uses for the g3n0c1de in gaza
@@jamesgreenldn if you just have watched the video above you would have known that he is a Palestinian who belongs to a well known family in Jerusalem from the mother side and a well known family in Gaza from the father side, and was he born in Jerusalem. So the answer is certainly no.
Even if Arafat made some achievements in his life, the fact that he signed the Oslo agreement secretly with the occupation in which he gave the occupation the legitimatecy over Palestine in return for a limited authority on some divided pieces of the Palestinian land, Oslo erased all those achievements. The Oslo agreement gave the occupation the cover for accelerating the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem. It also produced a corrupt class in the society that has ruled over Palestinians with full submission to the occupation and also the collaboration with its forces in order to control any descent. The Palestinians paid and are still paying a hefty price for this damned agreement.
Stop calling Israel "the occupation" or the "Zionist Entity". You sound like a child. You're just as bad as the right-wing Israelis who constantly say there is no Palestinian people or that there is no Palestine. You're both the reason there is no chance of an actual two-state solution and certainly not a one-state one. It's pathetic. Complaining until the end of time about the Nakba rather than trying to find a way out of the horrible situation both sides are stuck in is just going to maintain the status quo. The fact is, Oslo actually had the chance to create something real for Palestinians, imperfect as it was, and frankly Arafat should be lauded for trying to do something realistic. And it wasn't just the Oslo accords, as there were potential deals in 2000 and 2006, and over time, if Oslo was built upon, there would have been something real for Palestinians. But just like Netanyahu, you and people like you are absolutely inflexible, unwilling to consider the humanity of your enemy and the reality that Israel is going nowhere, and the only way forward is to acknowledge this and figure out a realistic way forward. And at the end of the day, if the absolutist attitude of aggression and inflexibility continues to exist on both sides, instead of finding a real way forward and a realistic resolution, Israel, a modern, Nuclear-armed state will keep leaning more to the right, using its power to suppress any potential of freedom for Palestinians while the body of the Palestinian people will continue to suffer while being promised a fairyland of river to the sea by so-called freedom fighters who do little more then line their own pockets and bank accounts on the backs of the people they purport to fight for.
@@findusfishfingerswell it's an occupation they come from Eruope and demand more then half of the land.. On what logic this can be made sense to the Palestine people? Also the entire history of zio state is written by Palestinian blood and look at them now trying to erase Palestine from the entire existence...
@@findusfishfingers Why should they negotiate for what is theirs. Israel has never upheld any agreement, we know this from the invasion of syria which was done for no reason whatsoever. Look at Palestine Authority, it is filled with corruption and has only damages the palestinian cause.
Hamass accepted the same agreement signed by Arafat and the two-state solution in 2017, after inflecting us with 17 years of division and putting Palestinians in the most weaken state in our history. So, to claim that this was the unforgivable mistake of Yasser Arafat to then see all Palestinian factions reach the same conclusion that he reached 30 years ago, then its rather an insight not a mistake. Arafat knew from the beginning that he is fighting the entire western colonialism and USA not only Israel, and knew that this cannot be achieved with a betrayal Arab regimes, so he realized that this fight cannot be won with a knock out punch but rather need to be built up until we either have an army that can face US or until the Arabs wake up.
All of us agree he wasn't Palestinian. Most of us agree he didn't represent our interests. The only ones who miss him are the ones who benefited from the funds he embezzled.
@@NikoBellaKhouf2 lol i bet u could never hold a gun or fight like him stop mocking him he did what he could do . Did u even watch the video it clearly explained why his shift in his views came.
@@PrashasyaGautam I could do it better. I own and operate a firearms training school. But that isn't relevant. It doesn't matter what I can or can't do.
@@Zeep3 why do you believe you deserve to be "enlighed" if you Havent figured it out yourself by now? It would just be like arguing with a one trick pony "but Khamas" "b b but 7th October"🙄
The problem is always Palestinians are forced to "negotiate" from a position of weakness, the US makes sure to veto every UN resolution and discredit any ICC or ICJ ruling to undermine the legitimacy of Palestinian cause. So is it fair to expect the Palestinians to never buckle under this weight and make bad deals because they see no other way? Yasser Arafat may have betrayed the movement, but I don't think it's fair of anyone to judge him.
Yasser hadn't betrayed the movement but made sure Palestine didn't just end up being a puppet state for the Muslim brotherhood who have their own agenda for Palestinians which we should never support their colonialist ways with the west He may be seen as a traitor for accepting the two State solution of Palestine and Israel which Hamas is making sure to get rid of Throughout history we have seen trying to make peace with fascists never ended well for the colonized, you can ask the Red Indians about it and Palestine is no different in that case and they have every right to abolish the state of Israel and seek coexistence with Jews if they are not fascist in nature like their Zionist elites made them
Regarding Oslo, although a painful controversial decision, but if it was not taken then the Palestinian cause would have faded away and Palestinian resistance vanished, especially with the betraying Arab regimes surrounding the Palestinians. Hadn't Oslo been made there would have not been a Palestinian resistance fighting today inside Palestine. Arafat vision was to transport PLO bases from diaspora to inside Palestine, closer to the enemy and closer to our lands that will keep the cause alive. It's also important to remember that at the time the betrayal of Arabs who wanted him away and PLO sterilized gave him little choices, and the fall of Soviet Union and Saddam Hussein power in 1990 was a major blow to the Palestinian revolution that made Oslo a survival decision to keep the fight ongoing. Live today to fight tomorrow. Arafat was pragmatic and a true fighter that knew his fight must continue to the next generation. If he did not make Oslo, we would have been today Tunisians or Lebanese or Jordanian (actually Palestinians in Jordan are literally saying they are Jordanians).
@@ostrados Arafat was born in Egypt. He made a fortune by exploiting Palestinian suffering. His daughter was born in France, is the only heir to an estimated $8 Billion fortune, and owns an entire street in London. Oh, and she is considered to be a "Palestinian refugee", so she is eligible for UNRWA hand outs. Go figure
I think Edward Said was right with his criticism of the Oslo Accords. The PLO was forced into the role of a collaborator and enforcer of the occupation but without being recognized as a state and with no recourse to international bodies to address grievances and thus having to rely entirely on Israeli goodwill that was always dependent on internal dynamics and whims of the political landscape
His legacy isn’t controversial. It’s only controversial if you haven’t actually read history. This man has been, and always will be, the most iconic, most important, and greatest leader Palestine has ever had. To those disagreeing in the comments; go read a damn book instead of learning your history from reels and tweets. And by the way, read critically, read all sides of the story.
"It's only controversial if you havent actually read history" ok, but what about people who lived through that history that you speak of and feel he was controversial? Do those people and their experiences and views just not count? An alternative way to look at this is that he was essentially the only real leader we had. Doesnt mean he was the best we couldve had, or even that he was all that great. He was all we had and we had to put faith in him. He made people proud, angry, hopeful, and yes, sometimes even hopeless. He was only human though. Some despised him, some adored him, sentiments that could be found across the population. Sometimes there would be varying opinions of him within the same family even. He very much was controversial, which isnt some outlandish statement if you lived through that time and didnt exist in a household or community that was an echo chamber of Arafat veneration.
Not controversial? Where are you from? I can bet my life you’ve never stepped foot in any levant country, he’s incredibly controversial! What a ridiculous comment, as a Palestinian I’ve never met one that likes this traitor, you don’t understand the cause one bit and to disrespect all our other leaders and revolutionary figures and call HIM the greatest is beyond insanity, please please leave this topic that doesn’t concern you alone! Clueless
@@SwiggityPeanut Habibi, let me clarify something. When I say “controversial,” I mean it differently than you might think. Arafat was our leader during one of the most important eras in the history of our struggle, and he made many crucial and decisive decisions that shaped our history. Naturally, as Palestinians, we have different emotions and opinions about him because of these decisions. Like any real leader, he made mistakes in some areas and achieved greatness in others. At times, we saw him as a savior, and at other times, we felt he was making serious mistakes. But there was never a debate about whether he was a traitor or an honest man. That was never in question. Even the leaders who opposed him the most have spoken well of him and acknowledged that he acted with the intention of doing what he believed was best for our people. Even Hamas leaders have openly recognized this when asked about him. Any leader can be called controversial in the sense that they make mistakes or face criticism at times. But that is entirely different from calling him a sellout or a traitor. I’m a Palestinian from Gaza, and I lived through this history too. But sometimes, it’s not enough to just live through it. It’s very important to read history and to truly understand what you might have missed while living through it. Arafat’s era was a time when our struggle was most targeted and attacked by regimes that sought to control our cause and use it as leverage for their own agendas. Understanding the circumstances our struggle faced back then helps explain why Arafat acted the way he did in certain situations.
@@bigpoppapump430 “If you’ve never met a Palestinian who loves Arafat, I’m pretty sure you're the one who never set foot in Palestine. As someone who lived most of my life in Gaza, I can tell you people never loved a leader more than Arafat. Even Hamas leaders have publicly acknowledged Arafat’s legacy and shown their admiration for him. So, seriously, go read a damn book, kid. Stop making Twitter your history teacher.
@@bigpoppapump430 If you’ve never met a Palestinian who loves Arafat, I’m pretty sure you're the one who never set foot in Palestine. As someone who lived most of my life in Gaza, I can tell you people never loved a leader more than Arafat. Even Hamas leaders have publicly acknowledged Arafat’s legacy and shown their admiration for him. So, seriously, go read a damn book, kid. Stop making Twitter your history teacher.
I really respect the way that you covered his legacy and not put all of what happened on his shoulder,, it’s not good after a life of fighting for his people, his people deny him.❤
I have to say this is actually impressive, very informative and interesting. I am a Palestinian same generation like you (2nd Intifida) and I had previously thought I am quite aware of our history but seriously learned a lot. Thank you and keep your good work.
Even as a Lebanese while i hold a bit of resentment toward him for the shit he caused in Lebanon (to this day), i respect his cause and his legacy. May Palestine be free from the river to the sea.
To be fair Lebanon was already headed to a war like this, remember the civil continued for years even after Arafat and the PLO were out of the equation
@@fahoodie1852 Fair comment, and I don't disagree. We have a bad habit of blaming others. :) However, it seems the Palestinian movement "in Lebanon" threatened the Christian's existence in their own country. Actually everyone had their own power struggle, with the Shi'a also having an existential crisis, similar to the Sunni existential crisis of the mid 2000s onwards when Hezb became the strong sheriff in town. I don't know what's up with our DNA, but it ends up in some kind of fight-or-flight power struggle. Just thinking out loud by the way. It is difficult to definitevely speculate: Would Lebanon have had a civil war without the existence of Armed militant Palestinians faction -> True or False? I don't know. Again, the Phalangist movement was borne out of an existential crisis...
@ Lebanon already had a civil war in 1958. The sectarian regime was already a time bomb waiting to explode. In fact even Christian militias were fighting each other, and the man who assassinated bashir al Gemayel himself was a Christian
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspiderman Let me try and answer this. The entirety of Palestine should be recognised once again as a 3 state in which The Muslims, Christians and the Jews exist in each other. This what Palestine has always been before the end of the Ottoman Empire. A thousand year of unity and not a single conflict happened (Major conflict is what i meant here).
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspiderman the Zionists stole their land with hundreds of acres under Israel occupation The Palestinians have every right to dissolve the Zionist regime state of Israel and unlike them are more willing to accept Jewish people unlike the colonialists
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspidermanthat phrase says nothing about the Israelis, only that Palestine will be free from the horrendous oppression they've lived through for 75+ years. Israelis may lose some of the occupied territory but this phrase does not call for the eradication of the Israeli population. Only the zionist think that this "conflict" is a zero sum game; even the Hamas charter acknowledges the lives of the Israelis whereas the Israeli position dehumanizes the Palestinians and seems intent on creating "Greater Israel".
Yasser Arafat was iconic person in history In 70s people in Pakistan named their children after his name my uncle name is Yasser Arafat and my grandfather named him after Yasser Arafat but personally oslo was disaster for Palestinian cause
Regarding Oslo, although a painful controversial decision, but if it had not been taken the Palestinian cause would have faded away and Palestinian resistance vanished, especially with the betraying Arab regimes surrounding the Palestinians. Hadn't Oslo been made there would have not been a Palestinian resistance today inside Palestine fighting for freedom. Arafat vision was to transport PLO bases from diaspora to inside Palestine, closer to the enemy and closer to our lands that will keep the cause alive. It's also important to remember that at the time the betrayal of Arabs who wanted him away and PLO sterilized gave him little choices, and the fall of Soviet Union and Saddam Hussein was a major blow to the Palestinian revolution that made Oslo a survival decision to keep the fight going. Live today to fight tomorrow. Arafat was pragmatic and a true fighter.
@@ostradosthat's a nice way to whitewash what happened. No, the cause wouldn't have faded away. Never back down. Never accept anything less than what we want. We can't sign away rights and then demand them back later. Nobody in the world will ever support us if we did that
@ Never back down, great, then what? PLO vanished, Palestinians in occupied Palestine becomes israeli citizens, Palestinians in diaspora becomes citizens in the lands they live and no resistance would ever regroup inside Palestine or near it… and bye bye Palestinian cause. You know, Arabs sometimes speak as if we have nuclear bombs and the red armies of China and Russia behind our back sending us their arms and tanks to fight Israel and all the imperialist Western colonialists who stand behind that it. Get back to reality! even the Arab regimes are against us!! it’s about time to understand that liberation, WHEN WEAK, is a long process that needs maneuver, hit and run tactics and to plan strategically. It took the Muslims 120 years to liberate Jerusalem from Crusaders and 200 years to end the Crusaders existence in Levant. Saladin spent decades uniting Muslims before he could even think in fighting Crusaders, and we in Palestine have 2 factions who cannot even fuck*ng unite because of such mentality!!!! And 22 Arab states who cant even cut oil to stop the genocide!!! Get real!!! if Khalid bin al Walid had the same mentality of Arabs and Muslim brotherhood today the Muslim nation would have vanished from the very first decade, probably after the battle of Yarmuk
Thank you for this video it taught me a lot. I was born in 1987 in America. Didn't know much about what was going on at that time in the world. I do remember my dad bought a newspaper for that day and remember reading some of it later on.
Arafat biggest mistake is that he blundered his chance to create a Palestinian state. it's sad to see this "no compromise" talk. sadly what you are advocating is a fight to the death, to the death of your people. instead of finding a way to live with your neighbors in peace, and see them as locals who are born there and have no other place to go (most of them at least). only way for you to be independent is to take a deal for 2 states because both people don't want to live with one another and this is not going to change any time soon.. and every time you lose you get a worst deal. what is even worst is usually people who push against peace are living somewhere else where they cant feel the effects of war - people like yourself.
28:14 I do respect your views And I see where you're coming from... But Oslo shows that our leader was either stupid or a traitor None of those two opinions are easy to accept Unfortunately, it seems he was the later opinion It's not easy also to say he was stupid because our great nation had many geniuses like kanafani, alyaseen, nashashibi and abed alqader alhusani and many many others. Maybe it's not fair... But I can't forgive him for what my life in Jerusalem looks like now Nor can I forgive him for how my friends live in the west bank (who live under two occupations right now, and he led to both of them being powerful in the west bank) There are lots of things I can't forgive him for. Yes, he might have done great things in the past But just like we say in Arabic "العبرة بالخواتيم" || "The end is what matters." (sorry for the weak translation 😅) In the end, the subject of Arafat and his legacy is rich and complex, but as a Muslim, I believe that it doesn't matter what I think about him Or what I think I know... God is all knowing, and only he knows the true intentions of Arafat, whatever it might have been Thank you for this video. Keep going and keep spreading the word. You're doing great, and we're proud of you 🖤🙏🏽
He was just a reactionary, a literal traitor. He did nothing but exploited all the hard work done by the other factions like PIJ, PFLP, Hamas, etc. (the true representatives of the Palestinian people).
What a beautiful and timely piece. People have forgotten how much of the Palestinian cause remains on the foundation which Arafat built, even when that cause currently lies in rubble. In many ways, we are living the 'catastrophe' of the 1950s all over again now. His spirit will guide us forward if we can learn from his mistakes and innovate our approach, using his memory to choose power and hope over defeatism. RIP Abu Ammar.
@NikoBellaKhouf2 Why tell this lie. He was born in egypt to palestinian parents so therefore he was palestinian. Is no different than a palestinian born in america.
@@travelingjohn69 What lie? Who are you to tell me I'm lying? You think he's Palestinian? Prove it! Find me the village/clan that claims him. I'll wait.
@@travelingjohn69 What lie? Who are you to tell me I'm lying? You think he's Palestinian? Prove it! Find me the village/clan that claims him. I'll wait.
@@travelingjohn69 What lie? Who are you to tell me I'm lying? You think he's Palestinian? Prove it! Find me the village/clan that claims him. I'll wait.
I've been consuming a lot of books in attempting to learn the history of the resistance but your video has really helped clarify the role Arafat played in the struggle. 🍉 Thank you!
When Israel surrounded Arafat in Jenin as punishment for his inability to Quash Hamas influence they forced him to change the constitution granting the PM “Mahmoud Abbas” huge amounts of power. However Arafat clout let him block Abbas any attempts to make more concessions to Israel. After Arafat death Abbas’s became president Israel demanded elections which they thought would give Abbas a mandate to make even more concessions. But Hamas decided to run for office under refusal to recognize Israel and rejecting Oslo Islamist banner and now controlled the powerful PM position. Israel kidnapped Hamas government which sparked off a war with Lebanon Hezbollah who captured IDF soldiers to force Israel to negotiate for the release of Hamas and Lebanese prisoners. The tactic worked and set a precedent.
Excellent work. I have a few questions 1) why do you refer to the "six day war"? This is the English/zionist name for the armed conflict that happened in '67 between Jordan, Egypt, Syria and the entity. Imu Palestinians much more generally refer to this as the June war, or the naksa. 2) why do you refer to the polonium poisoning as something that is "alleged". In my understanding this has been scientifically proven. 3) you seem to describe the PLO as something created by Arafat. The plo was founded by the Arab regimes in 1964. Imu the original purpose of the PLO was for the Arab regimes to control the Palestinian cause, like the "all Palestine government" created by Egypt in Gaza in 1948. 4) what is your opinion of the al Jazeera documentary "history of a revolution"?
3) It says in the video 11:12 that the PLO was created at the 1964 Arab Summit by Gamal Abdel Nasser "to co-opt, influence, control, or sabotage any form of independent Palestinian national movement." And it says that Arafat became its leader a few years later.
Thank you so much for this video I have not seen a video on Arafat's actions and legacy It is so great thay my first one is from such a reliable source as yourself
the all ours attitude of, "River to Sea," is what has gotten 8 decades of war. Both sides need to accept a state for each people. From the River to the Green Line, free Palestine!
Nope a two states solution was and will forever be the biggest political lie ever, simply because the Zionists do not want to share the land, they claim it entirely as theirs, for them, Palestinians will have to leave or die, their leaders already described people in Gaza as "living animals", they openly talk about their intentions to create "Greater Israel" and continue to build settlements in the West bank so do you really think these people after all of this will just give up all of this and say okay here is your part of the land?
Can I just say that the subtitles in your video are really inaccurate? Seriously, at one point in the video, the PLO was referred to as "Poo" in the subtitles. There's also cases of mistranscribing names, and I mean a lot of them, especially the terms "kuffiyeh", "nakba" and "Yasser Arafat" (the subject of the video). Could you please fix it? Thank you. Otherwise, great video.
with all due respect ... Oslo, with all of its flues, managed to increase the Palestinian population from 2.5 m to 4.3 m ... 1.5 billion Muslims could not return a single Palestinian home; our struggle is about Population . And the seed of a state; we could not have the opportunity to be a state without 1 km of land, and who said that liberation must be in one or even two generations? If the Palestinians did not have a state, what would happen if the Arab Spring occurred? For me, everything is a chance, including Oslo, Intifada, and even the war in Gaza. today, we are close to changing the world as much Zionism lost its narrative. just let us move on tnd to do good things
@ostrados No he wasn't, Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1920's. Arafat is Egyptian who spoke Arabic with Egyptian accent. His war criminal uncle is Egyptian too.
@ Yitzhak rabin was the son of jewish immigrant from Ukraine, Arafat belongs to one of the most deeply rooted Jerusalemite families. The irony of your claim is staggering.
@ostrados No, he doesn't. Your claim is staggering. If you were born in Egypt, you can't claim that you are Palestinian cause it was never a country in the 1st place.
Oslo Accords of Yasser Arafat: As a Palestinian refugee myself, with my parents witnessing it live, I do not think it was a mistake. It's very important to remember: Yasser Arafat and the PLO had nobody. 0 Support from other Arab nations, and were on the verge of actual deletion by the rest of the world. It's very important to remember that moves that take place can't just be emotional, but also have to be logical and tactical. In the current situation within the given circumstances, the Oslo Accords, was the best direction to go for the PLO, especially when Abu Ammar was in exile in Tunisia, and had everyone turn their backs onto him. It was also the only chance to attempt to normalize life for the Palestinian people whom at that point have only witnessed death and suffering. I have talked to many before and some people truly hate Yasser Arafat because of that singular incident. But in reality, once they approach it from a different angle, once they realize that the normal day-to-day Palestinian has only been witnessing death and destruction since his/her birth, and once they also realize that there was nobody else, they would understand that this was the best move from the cards that the PLO had. Allah Yerhamo
Well, I have no emotions at all. All I'm left with is logic and tactics. The move was not to our benefit. It did not help us one bit. Everyone agrees life was better before the Palestinian Authority. You can't sign away rights then ask for them back later expecting support from the world. The majority of the people supporting our cause think it'll be over if they just give us the West Bank and Gaza back because that's what they were negotiating for. They won't support us when they find out we still want all of our land back.
@NikoBellaKhouf2 As a leader of a nation at the time, you have to take into account realistic circumstances of the time. It’s probably more likely the Palestinian people would’ve given up and accepted subjugation if it weren’t for some of Arafat’s moves (not talking about Oslo). This isn’t about signing away rights but it’s a mere memorandum, and even if; the plan was to at least attempt to stabilize and have a founding foothold for self governance rather than full on death and suffering all around. A foothold so there could be a future Palestine, because let’s be honest, israel at the time was extremely advanced (courtesy of the US of A) and the best decision would be incremental steps, not a full on attempt. I’m not saying Oslo Accords is a good move. No. But I do believe that it was the best move for the time; because it was either that, or the Palestinian people would’ve probably faded and gotten liquidated, and trust me when I say this because it would’ve been even more easily covered up during the time, especially with none of the Arab nations providing a single care and no media coverage on Palestine. This is why a lot of people still symbolize Arafat as an icon of unity and resistance, which he is. He was the only person we had unlike the clowns of today that are in power. I view him in far higher regards than anyone in today’s Palestinian Authority, because he was leader that would walk and fight with his people. Something nobody at the time could do. He kept his people together.
@@JeraldG if you're going to play the part of an analyst, at least get to know the people you are analyzing. Palestinians have NEVER ever given up. Have NEVER ever accepted subjugation. We're 22 and 0 against invaders. This isn't our first rodeo. The previous ones took decades or centuries to win as well.
@@JeraldG they've been trying to erase us for the last 3,700 years. They couldn't get away with it then and they certainly aren't going to get away with it now.
@@JeraldG Yasser AraRat didn't unify us, we were already unified. He wasn't even Palestinian. He was never elected. He didn't represent us. Everything he signed is null and void. Nobody liked him except the ones that benefited from his corruption.
This is a really great primer on events that are barely covered in mainstream Westphalian history. The problems with the Oslo process are being felt to this day even if they are completely dead after the past 62 weeks of the IOF's genocidal rampage in Palestine and beyond. 🙏🏾🇵🇸⚡
I appreciate your pronounciation of Arab names and words. To make the video easier to understand for non-Arab speakers, please consider adding more text (like you did with Fatah 8:48) or including less names.
@@hbrotha1866 we know it too well, I visited two years ago and you can feel the tension in the air, no one trusts them, for good reason, arresting and murdering their own people it’s disgusting but all by design to weaken and divide us
He was a good man, he doesn't deserve the harsh words in this video. He was a revolutionary, he brought hope to the Palestinians when the entire world especially the arabs had forsaken them, he brought dignity, life and purpose. What happened after was not on him. He did his part. ❤❤❤
he can speak english ?? wth happen to the new palestinian leaders. I swear to god the Palestinian would gain 50% more support if they can speak english
Problem isn't the English. Problem is the Oil. America and Allies wants to Protect Oil in Arabia and North East Africa. As long as good Arabia in Feudal/Yemir/Sultan hands and bad ones in Terrorist hands , they are safe... All Arab Republic is the only for Progression. Saddam knew it (I do have disagreements with him). Nazeer knows it....
@@IndianNationalist-q bro imagine this video itself is in arabic. Nobody gonna know. Language barrier is one of the biggest barrier for palestinian to get international support.
Por algum motivo o YT teve a ideia apagada de oferecer somente letras pretas independente do modo de cores que o usuário usa. Para quem como eu usa o modo dark fica quase impossível digitar um comentário.
Something worth mentioning, something that almost never gets mentioned in discussions of Oslo, is that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin _never_ intended to allow the creation of a Palestinian state. In his final speech to the Knesset (Israel's legislature), one month before his assassination, he called for "the State of Israel... alongside a Palestinian entity... an entity which is less than a state..." He wanted to expand settlements within the West Bank. He didn't even accept allowing Palestinian control of East Jerusalem. He basically wanted to allow Palestinians to _believe_ they had a state, when in fact they had a collection of ghettos in the West Bank 22:29 and one giant ghetto called the Gaza Strip. For merely presenting to the world the flimsy facade of a "Palestinian state," Yitzhak Rabin was called a traitor by Netanyahu supporters and assassinated.
Then I advise you to read the Oslo Accords 1993-95. Also explain why Arafat was a billionare when he died.
"Oslo" has since become a synonym for bad-faith negotiations. Months ago, when the Biden administration was constantly telling the public that the president was "working around the clock" on a ceasefire deal, analyst Mouin Rabbani called the negotiations "an Oslo process for g℮nocid℮."
"[A]s with Oslo, the purpose here is process, not its conclusion with an agreement. And as with Oslo, which in 2000 produced the Second Intifada because the charade became impossible to conceal further, the ceasefire process is producing diminishing returns."
@@lisbethgiverhaug9513the Oslo accords expired in 1999, how is it even relevant? Oslo accords were only an interim agreement towards a peaceful settlement of the conflict
@@lisbethgiverhaug9513every world leader is a billionaire
tell me one leader that have less then 1m dollars (except for east European leaders during Cold War)
The Israeli right really is insane. Hell, even Trump was criticized by the Yesha council of settlers because he dared entertain the idea of a Palestinian state, however limited it was, in his 2020 plan.
i am crying... we will return to the homeland... one day...
@@lisbethgiverhaug9513Boy, I wonder why? It's almost like colonizers took their state.
@lisbethgiverhaug9513 because Europeans colonise it, just as always west are full of people the love genocides and stealing.
@@lisbethgiverhaug9513 I love that we're getting blamed for colonization 😂
@@ZenosMindYall moved 3 km down the road it’s not that deep
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspiderman If Russia move 3 kilometres into let’s say Mongolia would it still not be deep? Or would leaders across the globe run to condemn the attack, put blockades on them, and cut ties with them? You tell me.
That Arafat quote is fantastic.
Ive never seen that speech.
" dont let the olive branch fall from my hand "
I don’t get it
@yuzift8730 "i come with a olive branch in ine hand and a freedom fighters gun in the other ".
He's saying, we are offering peace, accept our offer of peace, but know that if you dont, we will die fighting
@@yuzift8730olive branch is synonymous with extending an opportunity for a friendship. He said I have an olive branch on one hand and a gun on the other. Don’t let the olive branch fall from my hand
He's Egyptian 😂
@@Mfthug-g6g born in cairo, yes.. did you have a point?
Nelson Mandela was also controversial but the west had always painted him like an african ghandi.
How was he??
@@hallow2300 he was a great man wdym
No they didn't. Nelson Mandela was on the terror watch list until 2008, 18 years after he was released from his prison cell he spent 27 years in.
In fact Israel attempted to help the white minority apartheid government of South Africa acquire nuclear weapons.
@@rtnas2434 true, explains why South Africa is pro-Palestine and I don't blame them
If you mean they painted him like Gandhi like the British did (Who painted him as a troublemaker) then you're right.
To all those who stand with us, in a comment, a prayer, a protest, a stand, a thought. We send you love and hope. Do not despair we will continue and call on you to continue with us. The watermelons.
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I was in my early teens when all this was going on around me. I was not mature enough to understand then but thank you for taking me on this journey to understand as an adult how the past led to where we are now.
Thanks!
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I'm an Indian, Hindu from Malaysia, and I stand with the Palestinian. My heart and soul are with you guys. For me, both Arrafat and Gadaffi are the most inspirational and exemplary leaders from the Middle East that the world should learn from.
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Respect, thank you sir ❤
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Cantik bro
Thank you for your support. But if Yasser AraRat is seen as one of the most inspirational, then we're in major trouble
"Long live Resistance, long live Palestine" ♥️🇵🇸🙌🏻
How’s that working out?
@@amirkatz9047very well israel is a parah state a lot of jews are now supporting palestine
What has your contribution been in this “resistance”?
Long live the most moral IDF in the world
@@amirkatz9047 💯
During his life time as leader he really did “move the mountain” like what the Chinese did, I hope there will be a future Palestinian leader like him someday.
What being forced out of Jordan for attempting a coup in 1970
He did what he could. If he doesn’t step up as leader who will?
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspiderman untrue, he did not lead a coup it was a betrayal of the Jordanian regime to remove the Palestinian resistance out of Jordan based on American commands. We all know it, lets not fool leach other after all what have been revealed and what we have seen!
@@codyshi4743 he did nothing good. He made himself rich using the suffering of his own people.
How rich?
His daughter was born in France, is the only heir to an estimated $8 Billion fortune, and owns an entire street in London.
Oh, and she is considered to be a "Palestinian refugee", so she is eligible for UNRWA hand outs.
He rejected peace deals and started awful violence, you can read this for more:
"Suha Arafat Exhumes Truth About Second Intifada"
@@codyshi4743 he made a huge amount of money from oppressing the Palestinian people.
Arafat was Egyptian. His daughter was born in France, is the only heir to an estimated $8 Billion fortune, and owns an entire street in London. Oh, and she is considered to be a "Palestinian refugee", so she is eligible for UNRWA hand outs. Go figure
I LOVE this video style, I love the little interludes of the guy 17:47 KEEP MAKING THESE!!!
For the algorithm - From the river to the sea 🍉Palestine will be free.
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Does that mean the removal of the Isrealian state?
@@zeldamage001lol you asked the question that no Palestinian wants to answer
@@zeldamage001 Yes, a single democratic state where it stood..one where everyone of every ethnicity shares the same rights and people are treated with humanity.
@@zeldamage001 yes, Israel do not have the right to exist
Arafat wasn’t perfect but I believe he did try his best. A good man may allah grant him jannah. Free Palestine from the terrorist state of Israel.
Try his best at what making Israel more right wing and there for less likely for a two state solution
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspiderman
No one can make "Israel" any "more right wing", it's very existence is "right wing"
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspidermanhe literally accepted the two state solution and went as far as to recognise Israel and they still fucked him over and he only got dog scraps
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspiderman israel was always going to be more right wing whether PLO existed.thats just an excuse, the same type of excuse israel uses for the g3n0c1de in gaza
Ameen 🙏🏾
This man is a Legend for what he accomplished but it’s always interesting to see how Palestinians feel about him as a non Palestinian myself
We see him as a legend too and miss him the most in these hard days 😣
If he was alive we would have been in a better situation.
Wasn’t he from Egypt originally?
@@jamesgreenldn if you just have watched the video above you would have known that he is a Palestinian who belongs to a well known family in Jerusalem from the mother side and a well known family in Gaza from the father side, and was he born in Jerusalem. So the answer is certainly no.
@@ostrados a simple Google search will show you that Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt.
@ no actual he’s from Madagascar 🇲🇬
For the algorithm.
Yess for algorithm
bump
All hail ye Almighty Algorithm!
"Our Greatest Revenge will be the laughter of our Children"- Bobby Sands. Tíocfaidh Ár lá 🇮🇪🇵🇸
Great video, can't wait to see one about the history of the PFLP
Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Free filasteen
falastine hurra!!!
nah, we're good.
HOW CAN YOU FREE A FAKE COUNTRY THAT NEVER EXISTED IN HISTORY ?????!!!!!!😂😂😂😂 😅😅😅😅😅............
@@user-k4t8zwho’s we? It’s you mate only
I love the chronological storytelling in the dresscode you keep changing, and the meanings i thought i extracted from it.
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NO PALESTINE SERYIAN OCCUPIERS 2400 YEARS ,
@@markjapan4062go away fascist Zionist, you shame the Jewish people
A great video! I think the picture painted here of Arafat is pretty fair.
Even if Arafat made some achievements in his life, the fact that he signed the Oslo agreement secretly with the occupation in which he gave the occupation the legitimatecy over Palestine in return for a limited authority on some divided pieces of the Palestinian land, Oslo erased all those achievements. The Oslo agreement gave the occupation the cover for accelerating the expansion of settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem. It also produced a corrupt class in the society that has ruled over Palestinians with full submission to the occupation and also the collaboration with its forces in order to control any descent. The Palestinians paid and are still paying a hefty price for this damned agreement.
Stop calling Israel "the occupation" or the "Zionist Entity". You sound like a child. You're just as bad as the right-wing Israelis who constantly say there is no Palestinian people or that there is no Palestine. You're both the reason there is no chance of an actual two-state solution and certainly not a one-state one. It's pathetic. Complaining until the end of time about the Nakba rather than trying to find a way out of the horrible situation both sides are stuck in is just going to maintain the status quo.
The fact is, Oslo actually had the chance to create something real for Palestinians, imperfect as it was, and frankly Arafat should be lauded for trying to do something realistic. And it wasn't just the Oslo accords, as there were potential deals in 2000 and 2006, and over time, if Oslo was built upon, there would have been something real for Palestinians. But just like Netanyahu, you and people like you are absolutely inflexible, unwilling to consider the humanity of your enemy and the reality that Israel is going nowhere, and the only way forward is to acknowledge this and figure out a realistic way forward.
And at the end of the day, if the absolutist attitude of aggression and inflexibility continues to exist on both sides, instead of finding a real way forward and a realistic resolution, Israel, a modern, Nuclear-armed state will keep leaning more to the right, using its power to suppress any potential of freedom for Palestinians while the body of the Palestinian people will continue to suffer while being promised a fairyland of river to the sea by so-called freedom fighters who do little more then line their own pockets and bank accounts on the backs of the people they purport to fight for.
@@findusfishfingerswell it's an occupation they come from Eruope and demand more then half of the land.. On what logic this can be made sense to the Palestine people?
Also the entire history of zio state is written by Palestinian blood and look at them now trying to erase Palestine from the entire existence...
@@findusfishfingers Why should they negotiate for what is theirs. Israel has never upheld any agreement, we know this from the invasion of syria which was done for no reason whatsoever. Look at Palestine Authority, it is filled with corruption and has only damages the palestinian cause.
@@findusfishfingersnetanyahu burner
Hamass accepted the same agreement signed by Arafat and the two-state solution in 2017, after inflecting us with 17 years of division and putting Palestinians in the most weaken state in our history. So, to claim that this was the unforgivable mistake of Yasser Arafat to then see all Palestinian factions reach the same conclusion that he reached 30 years ago, then its rather an insight not a mistake. Arafat knew from the beginning that he is fighting the entire western colonialism and USA not only Israel, and knew that this cannot be achieved with a betrayal Arab regimes, so he realized that this fight cannot be won with a knock out punch but rather need to be built up until we either have an army that can face US or until the Arabs wake up.
Palestina livre do rio ao mar 🇵🇸❤️🇧🇷
OXALÁ companheira. Perceverança até o fim 🗝🕊
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From my experience, Palestinians from Ramallah, Lebanon, and Jordan all had different opinions on Yassar Arafat. I found it very interesting.
All of us agree he wasn't Palestinian. Most of us agree he didn't represent our interests. The only ones who miss him are the ones who benefited from the funds he embezzled.
@NikoBellaKhouf2 He does sound like a case of " Die Young as a hero, or Live long enough to see ypurself become a villain."
@k-brick9996 he was never a hero. He double crossed and unalived many of the actual heroes
@@NikoBellaKhouf2 lol i bet u could never hold a gun or fight like him stop mocking him he did what he could do . Did u even watch the video it clearly explained why his shift in his views came.
@@PrashasyaGautam I could do it better. I own and operate a firearms training school. But that isn't relevant. It doesn't matter what I can or can't do.
Thank you for covering this, and doing so fairly. I cried at the part about his death. For all his flaws, many of us Palestinians deeply miss him.
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@@kitti90love Arafat was Egyptian
He wasn't even Palestinian
@@rywt4zc he wasn’t. Not like Netanyahu who’s Polish.
@@NikoBellaKhouf2 no he wasn’t. Not like Netanyahu who’s Polish.
Will you do one for the PFLP too? Thank you
Yahya Sinwar ❤❤❤
May Allah Almighty grant him high grade in Jannah
Ameen
Now he is a real hero, not this traitor!
@@bigpoppapump430 ik thats why i put ❤️
Oh please enlighten me why Sinwar is a hero
@@Zeep3 why do you believe you deserve to be "enlighed" if you Havent figured it out yourself by now? It would just be like arguing with a one trick pony "but Khamas" "b b but 7th October"🙄
The problem is always Palestinians are forced to "negotiate" from a position of weakness, the US makes sure to veto every UN resolution and discredit any ICC or ICJ ruling to undermine the legitimacy of Palestinian cause. So is it fair to expect the Palestinians to never buckle under this weight and make bad deals because they see no other way? Yasser Arafat may have betrayed the movement, but I don't think it's fair of anyone to judge him.
Yasser hadn't betrayed the movement but made sure Palestine didn't just end up being a puppet state for the Muslim brotherhood who have their own agenda for Palestinians which we should never support their colonialist ways with the west
He may be seen as a traitor for accepting the two State solution of Palestine and Israel which Hamas is making sure to get rid of
Throughout history we have seen trying to make peace with fascists never ended well for the colonized, you can ask the Red Indians about it and Palestine is no different in that case and they have every right to abolish the state of Israel and seek coexistence with Jews if they are not fascist in nature like their Zionist elites made them
Regarding Oslo, although a painful controversial decision, but if it was not taken then the Palestinian cause would have faded away and Palestinian resistance vanished, especially with the betraying Arab regimes surrounding the Palestinians. Hadn't Oslo been made there would have not been a Palestinian resistance fighting today inside Palestine. Arafat vision was to transport PLO bases from diaspora to inside Palestine, closer to the enemy and closer to our lands that will keep the cause alive. It's also important to remember that at the time the betrayal of Arabs who wanted him away and PLO sterilized gave him little choices, and the fall of Soviet Union and Saddam Hussein power in 1990 was a major blow to the Palestinian revolution that made Oslo a survival decision to keep the fight ongoing. Live today to fight tomorrow. Arafat was pragmatic and a true fighter that knew his fight must continue to the next generation. If he did not make Oslo, we would have been today Tunisians or Lebanese or Jordanian (actually Palestinians in Jordan are literally saying they are Jordanians).
@@ostrados Arafat was born in Egypt. He made a fortune by exploiting Palestinian suffering.
His daughter was born in France, is the only heir to an estimated $8 Billion fortune, and owns an entire street in London. Oh, and she is considered to be a "Palestinian refugee", so she is eligible for UNRWA hand outs. Go figure
@@rywt4zc A completely false accusation made by haters or traitors, chose one.
This is baseless and I challenge anyone to bring any prove.
as a non palestinian, free palestine from western powers
As a westerner without any power: Free Palæstina
@@ane-louisestampe7939 Two state solution
@@dereksue4877 Ham ass is against the 2 state solution
I think Edward Said was right with his criticism of the Oslo Accords. The PLO was forced into the role of a collaborator and enforcer of the occupation but without being recognized as a state and with no recourse to international bodies to address grievances and thus having to rely entirely on Israeli goodwill that was always dependent on internal dynamics and whims of the political landscape
They weren't compelled to do anything. They happily became collaborators and enforcers for a few shekels
another great vdo! please keep it up
Don’t let the olive branch fall from my hand.. I got goosebumps listening to him
His legacy isn’t controversial. It’s only controversial if you haven’t actually read history.
This man has been, and always will be, the most iconic, most important, and greatest leader Palestine has ever had.
To those disagreeing in the comments; go read a damn book instead of learning your history from reels and tweets. And by the way, read critically, read all sides of the story.
"It's only controversial if you havent actually read history" ok, but what about people who lived through that history that you speak of and feel he was controversial? Do those people and their experiences and views just not count?
An alternative way to look at this is that he was essentially the only real leader we had. Doesnt mean he was the best we couldve had, or even that he was all that great. He was all we had and we had to put faith in him. He made people proud, angry, hopeful, and yes, sometimes even hopeless. He was only human though.
Some despised him, some adored him, sentiments that could be found across the population. Sometimes there would be varying opinions of him within the same family even. He very much was controversial, which isnt some outlandish statement if you lived through that time and didnt exist in a household or community that was an echo chamber of Arafat veneration.
Not controversial? Where are you from? I can bet my life you’ve never stepped foot in any levant country, he’s incredibly controversial! What a ridiculous comment, as a Palestinian I’ve never met one that likes this traitor, you don’t understand the cause one bit and to disrespect all our other leaders and revolutionary figures and call HIM the greatest is beyond insanity, please please leave this topic that doesn’t concern you alone! Clueless
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Habibi, let me clarify something. When I say “controversial,” I mean it differently than you might think. Arafat was our leader during one of the most important eras in the history of our struggle, and he made many crucial and decisive decisions that shaped our history. Naturally, as Palestinians, we have different emotions and opinions about him because of these decisions. Like any real leader, he made mistakes in some areas and achieved greatness in others.
At times, we saw him as a savior, and at other times, we felt he was making serious mistakes. But there was never a debate about whether he was a traitor or an honest man. That was never in question. Even the leaders who opposed him the most have spoken well of him and acknowledged that he acted with the intention of doing what he believed was best for our people. Even Hamas leaders have openly recognized this when asked about him.
Any leader can be called controversial in the sense that they make mistakes or face criticism at times. But that is entirely different from calling him a sellout or a traitor.
I’m a Palestinian from Gaza, and I lived through this history too. But sometimes, it’s not enough to just live through it. It’s very important to read history and to truly understand what you might have missed while living through it. Arafat’s era was a time when our struggle was most targeted and attacked by regimes that sought to control our cause and use it as leverage for their own agendas. Understanding the circumstances our struggle faced back then helps explain why Arafat acted the way he did in certain situations.
@@bigpoppapump430 “If you’ve never met a Palestinian who loves Arafat, I’m pretty sure you're the one who never set foot in Palestine. As someone who lived most of my life in Gaza, I can tell you people never loved a leader more than Arafat.
Even Hamas leaders have publicly acknowledged Arafat’s legacy and shown their admiration for him.
So, seriously, go read a damn book, kid. Stop making Twitter your history teacher.
@@bigpoppapump430
If you’ve never met a Palestinian who loves Arafat, I’m pretty sure you're the one who never set foot in Palestine. As someone who lived most of my life in Gaza, I can tell you people never loved a leader more than Arafat.
Even Hamas leaders have publicly acknowledged Arafat’s legacy and shown their admiration for him.
So, seriously, go read a damn book, kid. Stop making Twitter your history teacher.
Palestine WILL be free.
But you don't know how
Thank you for your contribution and your content - I love it
I really respect the way that you covered his legacy and not put all of what happened on his shoulder,, it’s not good after a life of fighting for his people, his people deny him.❤
His people were 🇮🇱✡️. He wasn't Palestinian and did not represent us
This episode made me so emotional!! Inshallah Palestine will be free one day
I have goosebumps from the last speech,thank you for your film❤
Great video, sharing with friends
I have to say this is actually impressive, very informative and interesting. I am a Palestinian same generation like you (2nd Intifida) and I had previously thought I am quite aware of our history but seriously learned a lot. Thank you and keep your good work.
Conveniently left out that he was born in Cairo.
Literally wasn’t left out
Did you even watch the video?
i felt crying the entire video. thank you so much for educating us. our government doesn't speak for us - solidarity from the Philippines 🇵🇭🇵🇸.
Even as a Lebanese while i hold a bit of resentment toward him for the shit he caused in Lebanon (to this day), i respect his cause and his legacy. May Palestine be free from the river to the sea.
To be fair Lebanon was already headed to a war like this, remember the civil continued for years even after Arafat and the PLO were out of the equation
@@fahoodie1852 Fair comment, and I don't disagree. We have a bad habit of blaming others. :)
However, it seems the Palestinian movement "in Lebanon" threatened the Christian's existence in their own country. Actually everyone had their own power struggle, with the Shi'a also having an existential crisis, similar to the Sunni existential crisis of the mid 2000s onwards when Hezb became the strong sheriff in town. I don't know what's up with our DNA, but it ends up in some kind of fight-or-flight power struggle. Just thinking out loud by the way. It is difficult to definitevely speculate: Would Lebanon have had a civil war without the existence of Armed militant Palestinians faction -> True or False? I don't know. Again, the Phalangist movement was borne out of an existential crisis...
@ Lebanon already had a civil war in 1958. The sectarian regime was already a time bomb waiting to explode. In fact even Christian militias were fighting each other, and the man who assassinated bashir al Gemayel himself was a Christian
From the river to the sea 🍉
I have a simple question where do you think the jews will go and if they don’t go what will happen if they don’t go
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspidermanback to. Poland Russia Brooklyn and everywhere else they came from. Dumb question.
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspiderman Let me try and answer this. The entirety of Palestine should be recognised once again as a 3 state in which The Muslims, Christians and the Jews exist in each other. This what Palestine has always been before the end of the Ottoman Empire. A thousand year of unity and not a single conflict happened (Major conflict is what i meant here).
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspiderman the Zionists stole their land with hundreds of acres under Israel occupation
The Palestinians have every right to dissolve the Zionist regime state of Israel and unlike them are more willing to accept Jewish people unlike the colonialists
@@Friendlyneighboorhoodspidermanthat phrase says nothing about the Israelis, only that Palestine will be free from the horrendous oppression they've lived through for 75+ years. Israelis may lose some of the occupied territory but this phrase does not call for the eradication of the Israeli population. Only the zionist think that this "conflict" is a zero sum game; even the Hamas charter acknowledges the lives of the Israelis whereas the Israeli position dehumanizes the Palestinians and seems intent on creating "Greater Israel".
May allah free our whole ummah.
Some of us won’t live long enough to see it, but is guaranteed: Palestine WILL be liberated one day! 🍉🍉🍉
Yasser Arafat was iconic person in history In 70s people in Pakistan named their children after his name my uncle name is Yasser Arafat and my grandfather named him after Yasser Arafat but personally oslo was disaster for Palestinian cause
Regarding Oslo, although a painful controversial decision, but if it had not been taken the Palestinian cause would have faded away and Palestinian resistance vanished, especially with the betraying Arab regimes surrounding the Palestinians. Hadn't Oslo been made there would have not been a Palestinian resistance today inside Palestine fighting for freedom. Arafat vision was to transport PLO bases from diaspora to inside Palestine, closer to the enemy and closer to our lands that will keep the cause alive. It's also important to remember that at the time the betrayal of Arabs who wanted him away and PLO sterilized gave him little choices, and the fall of Soviet Union and Saddam Hussein was a major blow to the Palestinian revolution that made Oslo a survival decision to keep the fight going. Live today to fight tomorrow. Arafat was pragmatic and a true fighter.
@@ostradosthat's a nice way to whitewash what happened. No, the cause wouldn't have faded away. Never back down. Never accept anything less than what we want. We can't sign away rights and then demand them back later. Nobody in the world will ever support us if we did that
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Never back down, great, then what? PLO vanished, Palestinians in occupied Palestine becomes israeli citizens, Palestinians in diaspora becomes citizens in the lands they live and no resistance would ever regroup inside Palestine or near it… and bye bye Palestinian cause.
You know, Arabs sometimes speak as if we have nuclear bombs and the red armies of China and Russia behind our back sending us their arms and tanks to fight Israel and all the imperialist Western colonialists who stand behind that it. Get back to reality! even the Arab regimes are against us!! it’s about time to understand that liberation, WHEN WEAK, is a long process that needs maneuver, hit and run tactics and to plan strategically. It took the Muslims 120 years to liberate Jerusalem from Crusaders and 200 years to end the Crusaders existence in Levant. Saladin spent decades uniting Muslims before he could even think in fighting Crusaders, and we in Palestine have 2 factions who cannot even fuck*ng unite because of such mentality!!!! And 22 Arab states who cant even cut oil to stop the genocide!!! Get real!!!
if Khalid bin al Walid had the same mentality of Arabs and Muslim brotherhood today the Muslim nation would have vanished from the very first decade, probably after the battle of Yarmuk
A very moving and bittersweet recap! Thank you!
He tried his best for his people.
No he didn't and we aren't his people. He wasn't Palestinian
From the river, to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Thank you for this video it taught me a lot. I was born in 1987 in America. Didn't know much about what was going on at that time in the world. I do remember my dad bought a newspaper for that day and remember reading some of it later on.
This is masterful. Thank you.
Arafat biggest mistake is that he blundered his chance to create a Palestinian state.
it's sad to see this "no compromise" talk. sadly what you are advocating is a fight to the death, to the death of your people. instead of finding a way to live with your neighbors in peace, and see them as locals who are born there and have no other place to go (most of them at least).
only way for you to be independent is to take a deal for 2 states because both people don't want to live with one another and this is not going to change any time soon.. and every time you lose you get a worst deal.
what is even worst is usually people who push against peace are living somewhere else where they cant feel the effects of war - people like yourself.
Neighbours?
I just stumbled upon your RUclips channel and immediately subscribed!
Keep up the awesome 😎 work.
I've learnt so much.
I liked his look and his charisma❤
Why do you call him "controversial " ? He tried for a solution with his enemies. Him and Rabin were brave men.
28:14
I do respect your views
And I see where you're coming from...
But Oslo shows that our leader was either stupid or a traitor
None of those two opinions are easy to accept
Unfortunately, it seems he was the later opinion
It's not easy also to say he was stupid because our great nation had many geniuses like kanafani, alyaseen, nashashibi and abed alqader alhusani and many many others.
Maybe it's not fair...
But I can't forgive him for what my life in Jerusalem looks like now
Nor can I forgive him for how my friends live in the west bank (who live under two occupations right now, and he led to both of them being powerful in the west bank)
There are lots of things I can't forgive him for.
Yes, he might have done great things in the past
But just like we say in Arabic
"العبرة بالخواتيم" ||
"The end is what matters."
(sorry for the weak translation 😅)
In the end, the subject of Arafat and his legacy is rich and complex, but as a Muslim, I believe that it doesn't matter what I think about him
Or what I think I know...
God is all knowing, and only he knows the true intentions of Arafat, whatever it might have been
Thank you for this video. Keep going and keep spreading the word. You're doing great, and we're proud of you 🖤🙏🏽
I agree with you. Also, he wasn't Palestinian to begin with and had no right to sign away our rights
cant wait to see an episode on the PFLP
21:46 is PFLP not PLO
Correct. This is Ghassan Kanafani, a teacher and writer who became the spokesman for the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) in 1967.
One of the most beautiful pieces by this channel.
most awaited video
Keep the great video up!
Arafat was a self interested person. He lived a luxurious life in tunisia and was close to tyrannical leaders like assad and saddam.
He was just a reactionary, a literal traitor. He did nothing but exploited all the hard work done by the other factions like PIJ, PFLP, Hamas, etc. (the true representatives of the Palestinian people).
What a beautiful and timely piece. People have forgotten how much of the Palestinian cause remains on the foundation which Arafat built, even when that cause currently lies in rubble.
In many ways, we are living the 'catastrophe' of the 1950s all over again now. His spirit will guide us forward if we can learn from his mistakes and innovate our approach, using his memory to choose power and hope over defeatism.
RIP Abu Ammar.
from the river to the sea palestine will FREE❤❤❤
This is the content I appreciate so much. Well done and thank you
If nelson mandela was cool with him I as a black man will Support him.
We appreciate the support but you don't need to support Yasser AraRat who wasn't even Palestinian
@NikoBellaKhouf2 Why tell this lie. He was born in egypt to palestinian parents so therefore he was palestinian. Is no different than a palestinian born in america.
@@travelingjohn69 What lie? Who are you to tell me I'm lying? You think he's Palestinian? Prove it! Find me the village/clan that claims him. I'll wait.
@@travelingjohn69 What lie? Who are you to tell me I'm lying? You think he's Palestinian? Prove it! Find me the village/clan that claims him. I'll wait.
@@travelingjohn69 What lie? Who are you to tell me I'm lying? You think he's Palestinian? Prove it! Find me the village/clan that claims him. I'll wait.
I've been consuming a lot of books in attempting to learn the history of the resistance but your video has really helped clarify the role Arafat played in the struggle. 🍉 Thank you!
When Israel surrounded Arafat in Jenin as punishment for his inability to Quash Hamas influence they forced him to change the constitution granting the PM “Mahmoud Abbas” huge amounts of power. However Arafat clout let him block Abbas any attempts to make more concessions to Israel.
After Arafat death Abbas’s became president Israel demanded elections which they thought would give Abbas a mandate to make even more concessions. But Hamas decided to run for office under refusal to recognize Israel and rejecting Oslo Islamist banner and now controlled the powerful PM position. Israel kidnapped Hamas government which sparked off a war with Lebanon Hezbollah who captured IDF soldiers to force Israel to negotiate for the release of Hamas and Lebanese prisoners. The tactic worked and set a precedent.
Pretty sure it was Hamas’s anti corruption platform that got them the votes, not their anti-normalization platform.
Your videos are fantastically produced. Thank you for making this so digestible and engaging
I don't care what people say
In my eyes he was good man with flaws just like Nasser and Gaddafi
Great video
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 good work ✊🏽🫡
Amazing video
Excellent work. I have a few questions
1) why do you refer to the "six day war"? This is the English/zionist name for the armed conflict that happened in '67 between Jordan, Egypt, Syria and the entity. Imu Palestinians much more generally refer to this as the June war, or the naksa.
2) why do you refer to the polonium poisoning as something that is "alleged". In my understanding this has been scientifically proven.
3) you seem to describe the PLO as something created by Arafat. The plo was founded by the Arab regimes in 1964. Imu the original purpose of the PLO was for the Arab regimes to control the Palestinian cause, like the "all Palestine government" created by Egypt in Gaza in 1948.
4) what is your opinion of the al Jazeera documentary "history of a revolution"?
3) It says in the video 11:12 that the PLO was created at the 1964 Arab Summit by Gamal Abdel Nasser "to co-opt, influence, control, or sabotage any form of independent Palestinian national movement." And it says that Arafat became its leader a few years later.
So happy I found your channel! I’m a prouder Palestinian each day because of Palestinians like you
Thank you so much for this video
I have not seen a video on Arafat's actions and legacy
It is so great thay my first one is from such a reliable source as yourself
the all ours attitude of, "River to Sea," is what has gotten 8 decades of war. Both sides need to accept a state for each people. From the River to the Green Line, free Palestine!
Nope a two states solution was and will forever be the biggest political lie ever, simply because the Zionists do not want to share the land, they claim it entirely as theirs, for them, Palestinians will have to leave or die, their leaders already described people in Gaza as "living animals", they openly talk about their intentions to create "Greater Israel" and continue to build settlements in the West bank so do you really think these people after all of this will just give up all of this and say okay here is your part of the land?
Can I just say that the subtitles in your video are really inaccurate? Seriously, at one point in the video, the PLO was referred to as "Poo" in the subtitles. There's also cases of mistranscribing names, and I mean a lot of them, especially the terms "kuffiyeh", "nakba" and "Yasser Arafat" (the subject of the video). Could you please fix it? Thank you. Otherwise, great video.
with all due respect ... Oslo, with all of its flues, managed to increase the Palestinian population from 2.5 m to 4.3 m ... 1.5 billion Muslims could not return a single Palestinian home; our struggle is about Population . And the seed of a state; we could not have the opportunity to be a state without 1 km of land, and who said that liberation must be in one or even two generations?
If the Palestinians did not have a state, what would happen if the Arab Spring occurred?
For me, everything is a chance, including Oslo, Intifada, and even the war in Gaza. today, we are close to changing the world as much Zionism lost its narrative. just let us move on tnd to do good things
The movement has gained momentum and we are closer to change in spite of Oslo, not because of it
Long live Palestinian Resistance!
He's not a palestinian, he's an Egyptian, was born and raised in Egypt, till he was 18 years old.
he was born in Jerusalem.... enough to dismantle the rest of your illusions
@ostrados No he wasn't, Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1920's. Arafat is Egyptian who spoke Arabic with Egyptian accent. His war criminal uncle is Egyptian too.
@ Yitzhak rabin was the son of jewish immigrant from Ukraine, Arafat belongs to one of the most deeply rooted Jerusalemite families. The irony of your claim is staggering.
@ostrados No, he doesn't. Your claim is staggering. If you were born in Egypt, you can't claim that you are Palestinian cause it was never a country in the 1st place.
Look you must make more of this. You’re so good at it.
Oslo Accords of Yasser Arafat:
As a Palestinian refugee myself, with my parents witnessing it live, I do not think it was a mistake.
It's very important to remember: Yasser Arafat and the PLO had nobody. 0 Support from other Arab nations, and were on the verge of actual deletion by the rest of the world. It's very important to remember that moves that take place can't just be emotional, but also have to be logical and tactical. In the current situation within the given circumstances, the Oslo Accords, was the best direction to go for the PLO, especially when Abu Ammar was in exile in Tunisia, and had everyone turn their backs onto him. It was also the only chance to attempt to normalize life for the Palestinian people whom at that point have only witnessed death and suffering.
I have talked to many before and some people truly hate Yasser Arafat because of that singular incident. But in reality, once they approach it from a different angle, once they realize that the normal day-to-day Palestinian has only been witnessing death and destruction since his/her birth, and once they also realize that there was nobody else, they would understand that this was the best move from the cards that the PLO had.
Allah Yerhamo
Well, I have no emotions at all. All I'm left with is logic and tactics. The move was not to our benefit. It did not help us one bit. Everyone agrees life was better before the Palestinian Authority. You can't sign away rights then ask for them back later expecting support from the world.
The majority of the people supporting our cause think it'll be over if they just give us the West Bank and Gaza back because that's what they were negotiating for.
They won't support us when they find out we still want all of our land back.
@NikoBellaKhouf2
As a leader of a nation at the time, you have to take into account realistic circumstances of the time. It’s probably more likely the Palestinian people would’ve given up and accepted subjugation if it weren’t for some of Arafat’s moves (not talking about Oslo). This isn’t about signing away rights but it’s a mere memorandum, and even if; the plan was to at least attempt to stabilize and have a founding foothold for self governance rather than full on death and suffering all around. A foothold so there could be a future Palestine, because let’s be honest, israel at the time was extremely advanced (courtesy of the US of A) and the best decision would be incremental steps, not a full on attempt.
I’m not saying Oslo Accords is a good move. No. But I do believe that it was the best move for the time; because it was either that, or the Palestinian people would’ve probably faded and gotten liquidated, and trust me when I say this because it would’ve been even more easily covered up during the time, especially with none of the Arab nations providing a single care and no media coverage on Palestine.
This is why a lot of people still symbolize Arafat as an icon of unity and resistance, which he is. He was the only person we had unlike the clowns of today that are in power. I view him in far higher regards than anyone in today’s Palestinian Authority, because he was leader that would walk and fight with his people. Something nobody at the time could do. He kept his people together.
@@JeraldG if you're going to play the part of an analyst, at least get to know the people you are analyzing. Palestinians have NEVER ever given up. Have NEVER ever accepted subjugation. We're 22 and 0 against invaders. This isn't our first rodeo. The previous ones took decades or centuries to win as well.
@@JeraldG they've been trying to erase us for the last 3,700 years. They couldn't get away with it then and they certainly aren't going to get away with it now.
@@JeraldG Yasser AraRat didn't unify us, we were already unified. He wasn't even Palestinian. He was never elected. He didn't represent us. Everything he signed is null and void. Nobody liked him except the ones that benefited from his corruption.
Thanks ❤
This is a really great primer on events that are barely covered in mainstream Westphalian history. The problems with the Oslo process are being felt to this day even if they are completely dead after the past 62 weeks of the IOF's genocidal rampage in Palestine and beyond. 🙏🏾🇵🇸⚡
Thank you for all the work you do. My endless gratitude goes to you. ❤️
Lol he got a Nobel prize. That hasn't meant anything since one was given to Kissenger
What a great video.
For the algorithm
"He sought to sieze an opportunity and make the most of it" unfortunately, the Palestinian people never could figure that part out.
I appreciate your pronounciation of Arab names and words. To make the video easier to understand for non-Arab speakers, please consider adding more text (like you did with Fatah 8:48) or including less names.
The best documentary that perfectly describes the man
Ahh the Palestinian Authority - this is well timed considering the happenings in Jenin
💯💯💯 nothing but traitors
@@bigpoppapump430 this has been the thorn in the side of Palestinians.
@@hbrotha1866 we know it too well, I visited two years ago and you can feel the tension in the air, no one trusts them, for good reason, arresting and murdering their own people it’s disgusting but all by design to weaken and divide us
I shed a tear at the end 😭
Now do one about Bibi.
"He is the Hebrew Hitler" there you go, video ended
What about him?
He was a good man, he doesn't deserve the harsh words in this video. He was a revolutionary, he brought hope to the Palestinians when the entire world especially the arabs had forsaken them, he brought dignity, life and purpose. What happened after was not on him. He did his part. ❤❤❤
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he can speak english ?? wth happen to the new palestinian leaders. I swear to god the Palestinian would gain 50% more support if they can speak english
Problem isn't the English.
Problem is the Oil.
America and Allies wants to Protect Oil in Arabia and North East Africa. As long as good Arabia in Feudal/Yemir/Sultan hands and bad ones in Terrorist hands , they are safe...
All Arab Republic is the only for Progression. Saddam knew it (I do have disagreements with him). Nazeer knows it....
@@IndianNationalist-q bro imagine this video itself is in arabic. Nobody gonna know. Language barrier is one of the biggest barrier for palestinian to get international support.
O RUclips é uma bosta e tive que sair do modo dark para fazer comentário
Por algum motivo o YT teve a ideia apagada de oferecer somente letras pretas independente do modo de cores que o usuário usa. Para quem como eu usa o modo dark fica quase impossível digitar um comentário.
true it is
Eu acho que é um bug do seu RUclips em particular, eu estou usando o modo dark, e as letras estão brancas e funcionando normalmente.