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Virgin Publishing
June 2005
490 pages
ISBN: 0753508885
Hardcover (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Biography
It is over thirty years since Yasser Arafat swept onto the
world stage as leader of the Palestine Liberation
Organisation, a machine gun in one hand and an olive
branch in the other. In that time he has become many
things to many people: to ordinary Israelis a terrorist
godfather whose desire for the complete annihilation of
their state is only thinly veiled; to previous US
administrations a Nobel Peace Prize-winner and the only
Palestinian to do business with; to the Bush Whitehouse, a
pariah once more. Fully up to date, and based on hundreds
of frank and revealing interviews with senior Israeli and
Palestinian officials, including Arafat himself, Arafat:
The Biography examines his once-triumphant transition from
terrorist to statesman, and his subsequent marginalisation
following the tragic collapse of the Oslo Peace Accords.
The book examines the charge that the bitter personal
blood-feud between Arafat and Israel's Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon is itself a major obstacle to peace in the
Middle-East. It separates Arafat the man from Arafat the
myth, and offers a penetrating, balanced insight into the
international and intelligence links, and the internal
machinery, of the Palestinian regime.
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