Arafat's widow: He planned the second intifada after Camp David

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Yasser Arafat’s widow Suha admitted that the late Palestinian leader premeditated the Second Intifada, in an interview with Dubai TV earlier this month, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

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“Immediately after the failure of the Camp David [negotiations], I met him in Paris upon his return. … Camp David had failed, and he said to me: ‘You should remain in Paris.’ I asked him why, and he said: ‘Because I am going to start an Intifada. They want me to betray the Palestinian cause. They want me to give up on our principles, and I will not do so,’” the research institute translated Suha as saying…

Arafat’s comments run contrary to claims that former prime minister Ariel Sharon’s infamous visit to the Temple Mount was the trigger to the Intifada, which was launched in September 2000.

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