Biografia

Reportedly a huge "Tom and Jerry" fan. He would make guests wait if they interrupted him watching an episode until it had finished.

Had one daughter, Zahwa, born 24 July 1995, in Paris.

Has his look-alike puppet in the French show Les Guignols de l'info (1988).

Arafat was born August 24, 1929, in Cairo, Egypt, though he has often said he was born in Jerusalem. He was the sixth of seven children of a Palestinian merchant and his wife, a member of a prominent Arab family in Jerusalem

Awarded the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres Yitzhak Rabin.

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.