“Just as the United States separates from Trump, probably for good, so we must part with Abu Mazen [aka Mahmoud Abbas],” arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat’s widow said.

By Baruch Yedid, TPS

“We also deserve a change of presidents like in the United States,” Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat’s widow, told TPS in a phone conversation, and demanded that Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas leave after 15 years in power and four presidential terms in the US.

Her remarks were accompanied by an unprecedented attack and with very harsh criticism of the head of the Palestinian Authority.

“I am now watching the live broadcast of the change of government and the display of democracy in the White House,” Arafat said in the call, “and I decided it was time to publicly demand that Abu Mazen [aka Mahmoud Abbas] withdraw from Palestinian life and resign because he has already lost his legitimacy and moral right to rule the Palestinian people.”

In a scathing attack on Abbas, Arafat demands that he leave his post as Palestinian president “just as Trump was expelled from the White House,” adding that “just as the United States separates from Trump, probably for good, so we must part with Abu Mazen.”

“The Palestinians, like the Americans, deserve better leadership and now, as President Biden infuses new blood into the corridors of the White House, we too deserve different leadership and new blood in the Muqata’s building in Ramallah,” she said.

Elected leadership must replace ‘Abbas dictatorship’

“We deserve new and young leadership in place of Abu Mazen’s dictatorship, which is no different from the dictatorships of Saddam Hussein and Bashar al-Assad,” she added.

According to her, only an elected leadership that is not based on the “Abbas dictatorship” will be able to take advantage of the positive momentum in the White House and harness it in favor of the Palestinians, and therefore Abu Mazen must make room for others.

Arafat says that her husband, whom she calls “the eternal leader Abu Amar,” used to emphasize and say many times that “the Palestinian people are better and more important than their leaders and deserve better leaders.”

She now demands that Abu Mazen respect her husband’s legacy and cease his reign of fear.

“Like Saddam Hussein and Bashar Assad, Abu Mazen also uses his presidency and control of the Palestinian people’s money to starve his people, and like those tyrannical leaders, when he has a problem with one of the family members he does not hesitate to harm the entire family,” she said.

In recent weeks, Arafat has often criticized Abu Mazen’s leadership, but in a conversation with TPS, she “shifted up the gear,” apparently against the background of the upcoming Palestinian Authority elections, and said serious and unprecedented remarks condemning the PA chairman.

“He uses propaganda methods that are reminiscent of [Nazi propagandist] Joseph Goebbels’ methods,” said Suha Arafat.

Referring to the upcoming elections, Yasser Arafat’s widow demands that Abu Mazen leave his post and added, “I hope he does not take advantage of the next election to return to the Palestinian presidency by oppressing the younger generation.”

Rooting for terrorist Marwan Barghouti

During the conversation, Suha Arafat said that she appreciated and hoped that Marwan Barghouti, a senior Fatah official imprisoned in Israel for five life sentences, would run for the Palestinian presidency and oust Abu Mazen.

In recent days, Fatah sources have said that Abu Mazen, the movement’s presidential candidate, is working to prevent Barghouti from running against him. Against this background, Suha says, “I hope Marwan will not succumb to the pressures exerted on him and face Abu Mazen. Marwan understands that if he does not run now, the PA will work under Abu Mazen and Majed Faraj, the head of Palestinian intelligence, to keep him in prison for decades to come.”

Asked about the identity of the “young leadership,” Arafat said: “Abu Mazen should allow the younger generation to run for leadership. Do you know everyone who came from Tunis to the PA alongside Arafat? Do you know Palestinian businessmen or academics? I am sure Israel does not know many who are worthy of replacing Abu Mazen, but there is a reason for this and that is that Abu Mazen and his ilk in the Palestinian leadership are suppressing any other leadership.”

“It is not possible the young Palestinians succeed abroad and achieve in the fields of economics and science and academia, and only in the territories of the PA are they failing and oppressed. We must nurture the students and entrepreneurs and academics and replace Abu Mazen’s rule of fear and corruption, “she told TPS.

Suha Arafat does not distinguish between PA rule and Hamas in the Gaza Strip: “Abu Mazen’s rule is no different from Hamas’ rule in the Gaza Strip and in PA territories, the Palestinians have become hostages under a rule of fear that Abu Mazen leads through his security forces and Fatah members.”

In her remarks, she stressed that she meant the Fatah factions loyal to Abu Mazen and not those loyal to Marwan Barghouti or Muhammad Dahlan.

Abbas ‘will now act to discredit me’

Referring to the recent criticism she passed over Abu Mazen, Suha Arafat said that she was “sure that Abu Mazen will now act to discredit me in a series of comments and claim against me that I close personal accounts, especially with the head of his bureau, but he must understand that in politics everything is personal and I admit that he and his secretary Antisar Abu Amara have an open war, which they started against me.”

Suha Arafat says of Abu Amara, “She is an Israeli Shin Bet agent and she knows that I know all her secrets. Tell our members in the Shin Bet that Abu Amara is no longer a security asset, just as Abu Mazen’s entire rule is not a security asset for Israel, and only thanks to it [Israel] he can survive and maintain his seat.”

Abu Amara is the head of Abu Mazen’s bureau and is considered an ironwoman who, along with his associates, including Hussein A-Sheikh, the PA’s Minister of Civil Affairs, and Colonel Majed Faraj, the head of intelligence, created a very strong center of power in Ramallah.

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If the Palestinians had won, it appears her reaction would have been different.

By World Israel News Staff

Yasser Arafat, known as the “Father of Modern Terror,” made a mistake in starting the Second Intifada, according to his widow Suha. She made the surprise statement in a post to her Instagram account in Arabic on Jan. 1.

Suha Arafat doesn’t seem to regret the decision because it cost the lives of 1,000 Israelis, mainly civilians, but because the Palestinian were outmatched. If the Palestinians had won, it appears her reaction would have been different.

“The [intifada] was wrong, because we lost a lot, and our war with them [Israel] was unequal,” she said of the conflict, which lasted from 2000 to 2005. Palestinian fatalities numbered 3,200.

Suha also indirectly reiterated comments she made to Dubai TV in 2012, in which she confirmed the Israeli version of events, in which Arafat planned the Second Intifada aforethought and holds responsibility for the bloody uprising.

The Palestinian narrative had maintained that the Second Intifada was caused by a visit to the Temple Mount by soon-to-be Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Sept. 2000.

Suha told Dubai TV on Dec. 16, 2012: “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.’”

Arafat’s widow also said that she doesn’t blame Israel for killing her husband, who died in 2004. “Until now I don’t have evidence against anyone,” Arafat said.

“I cannot accuse anyone of killing him, even Israel, because I do not have any evidence, and I also do not have evidence against anyone so far, and I do not want the accusations to be thrown into internal Palestinian malicious political battles without conclusive evidence,” she said.

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Suha Arafat tells UAE she’s sorry after Palestinians insult the Emirates over its peace deal with Israel.

By Paul Shindman, World Israel News

Late Palestinian president and arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat’s wife issued a statement of apology on social media to the United Arab Emirates after Palestinian leaders reacted angrily and Palestinian protesters burned UAE flags following the announcement the Arab country would establish diplomatic relations with Israel, Al Arabiya reported Saturday.

Suha Arafat, who resides in France and is not a member of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, posted on Instagram that she was sorry for some actions by Palestinian protesters.

“I want to apologize, in the name of the honorable Palestinian people, to the Emirati people and their leadership for the desecration and burning of the UAE flag in Jerusalem and Palestine and for insulting the symbols of the beloved UAE country,” she posted.

Palestinian leaders roundly condemned the August 13 announcement by President Trump that Israel and the UAE would sign a peace deal at the White House in the coming weeks. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said that the UAE leadership had betrayed the Palestinian people.

Suha Arafat wrote that having differences of opinion should not spoil the friendliness between the two peoples and posted a picture of her husband, who died in 2004, with the late UAE ruler Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nayan, father of the country’s current leader.

“I apologize to the people and the leadership of the UAE for any harm done by any Palestinian to the generous and kind people, who have always welcomed us. I apologize to the mother of the Emirates, Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, for the irresponsible behavior,” she said.

For their part, the UAE said the establishment of formal relations with Israel was good for the Palestinians because it forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to indefinitely delay plans to apply Israeli sovereignty to settlements in Judea and Samaria, a move the Palestinians vehemently opposed.

The two Arab countries that already have peace treaties with Israel, Egypt and Jordan, welcomed the UAE-Israel peace initiative. Leaders of two other Gulf countries that are fellow members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Bahrain and Oman, also welcomed the new deal.

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Suha Arafat accuses Israel of assassination. (AP/Jacques Brinon)

The French investigation into the death of PA chairman Yasser Arafat has come to an end. French forensics experts concluded, based on samples from his grave, that Israel did not assassinate him.

By Lauren Calin, World Israel News

French judges have concluded their investigation into the death of Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat. Arafat’s widow, Suha, accused Israel of assassinating him, despite her refusal to allow an autopsy at the time of his death. Forensic experts have already indicated that there is no evidence to support the claim.

“The judges have closed their dossier and it was sent to the prosecutor on April 30,” the prosecutor’s office told AFP. The prosecutor now has three months to decide whether to dismiss the case or bring it to court.

Israel had confined Arafat to his compound in Ramallah since 2001 due to his direct role in stoking the Second Intifada, during which Palestinian terrorists killed approximately 1,000 Israeli citizens, of whom three-quarters were civilians. The 75-year-old PA leader, an arch-terrorist, was flown to France in October 2004 after developing symptoms ascribed by his personal physician to a flu. He died on November 11. French doctors said the cause of death was a massive hemorrhagic stroke. Senior Palestinian officials refused to release Arafat’s medical records, and his wife declined an autopsy.

Numerous conspiracy theories surfaced around Arafat’s death, but they were only given life in 2012 when Suha Arafat lodged a complaint with a court in Nanterre, France, saying that her husband had been assassinated. The basis of the complaint was a forensic investigation of personal items provided by Mrs. Arafat for an al-Jazeera documentary that revealed contamination by polonium-210.

Honor Guard at Yasser Arafat’s tomb. (Wikipedia/TristamSparks)

European forensic teams then took samples from Arafat’s grave for testing. A French team concluded: “The polonium-210 and lead-210 found in Arafat’s grave and in the samples are of an environmental nature,” as Nanterre prosecutor Catherine Denis said last month. A Swiss team refused to rule out the possibility of assassination, though it later came to light that the Swiss investigation was directly funded by Mrs. Arafat and by the PA.

Conspiracy theories are a consistent feature of contemporary Arab politics. A 2013 poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah found that fully 80% of Palestinians believe that Yasser Arafat was assassinated. While 59% of respondents blamed Israel for his death, one-fifth of those surveyed said that a rival Palestinian party or organization was the likely culprit.

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