The memoirs of Kazem Jalali in the last tragic years of Yasser Arafat.
🔹 On November 11, 2004, Yasser Arafat, then chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, died in a Paris hospital after weeks of illness.
🔹 Arafat, one of the first leaders of the organized Palestinian resistance to the liberation of their homeland, chose for decades afterwards to continue negotiations and compromise with Israel.
🔹 Mediated by the US, he entered the process leading to the Oslo Accords and the acceptance of the two-state solution - a path aimed at establishing an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.
🔹 However, over time, Israeli blockades, settlement expansion and sad negotiations have gradually hindered the prospects for this vision. 🔹 In his last years, Arafat's relations with Israel deteriorated sharply; He remains confined to his headquarters in Ramallah under a military siege.
🔹 Speculations and tests also pointed to biological elimination as the cause of Arafat's death.
📝 The full text of Tasnim's last interview with Jalali.