Yasser Arafat may be related to Jews, according to a PLO official’s new book. Israel’s daily Yediot Achronot on Tuesday quoted “Yasser Arafat and the Zionist Solution for the Palestine Crisis” as claiming that the Palestinian leader’s father was born in the Moroccan village of Al-Kidwa and had family links to the large Jewish population there.
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