Tayyar.
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Yasser Arafat

ياسر عرفات
Head of state Inactive Verified

Founder of Fatah, PLO chairman 1969-2004, Palestinian Authority president 1996-2004. Co-Nobel laureate 1994 for the Oslo Accords.

Country
Palestine
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Head of state
Status
Historical figure

Position

3 source documents on file for Yasser Arafat (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

On the record

Quotes attributed to Yasser Arafat that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • I dream of a one democratic State where Christian, Jew and Muslim live in justice, equality and fraternity.
    1974 PLO chairman's address to the UN General Assembly on 13 November 1974 — the secular one-state vision in his first speech to the body. palquest.org
  • We do not wish one drop of either Arab or Jewish blood to be shed; neither do we delight in the continuation of killing.
    1974 PLO chairman's address to the UN General Assembly on 13 November 1974 — peace overture inside the same address that closed with the olive-branch-and-gun line. palquest.org
  • War flares up in Palestine, and yet it is in Palestine that peace will be born.
    1974 Closing line of the PLO chairman's address to the UN General Assembly on 13 November 1974. palquest.org
  • Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
    لقد جئت إليكم اليوم وفي يدي غصن الزيتون، وفي يدي الأخرى بندقية المناضل من أجل الحرية. فلا تسقطوا غصن الزيتون من يدي.
    1974 November 13 1974 UN General Assembly address — the first time a non-state actor's leader addressed the body, with a sidearm strapped to his hip throughout the entrance though removed at the podium. un.org · en.wikipedia.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Yasser Arafat [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/arafat
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Yasser Arafat." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/arafat.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-arafat,
  title     = {{Yasser Arafat}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/arafat},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.