http://shterzer.com/archives/001208.html

At least that is what a new book published in Syria says. According to the book, written b y a top PLO member, Arafat’s father Arrived to Jerusalem from a village in Morocco populated mostly by Jews. The author claims that a cousin of Arafat confirmed that Arafat changed his last name trying to hide his Jewish Moroccan roots.

The author also writes what has been known for a long time that Arafat was born in Cairo not in Jerusalem. Arafat’s father was married to an Arab woman from Jerusalem but Arafat was not born there. Another thing the book says is that Arafat is not related, as he claims, to the infamous/ famous Husseini family from Jerusalem. As for being from Moroccan origin the book quotes Morocco’s former Foreign Affairs minister that as far as he knows Arafat is from that Moroccan village. (all of the above freely translated from Israeli news siteYnet)

The readers of Ynet had some funny conclusions: If Arafat is a Jew it will explain many things. For example it explains why Arafat refused to accept Barak and Clinton plan to give land to the Palestinians. It would also explain why he leads the Palestinians to chaos. Why he encourages suicide bombings that causes more and more people to loathe the Palestinians. Another thing: If Arafat is a Jew and he lives in the West Bank, does that make him a settler?

Update: Ma’ariv adds more info from that book. It is claimed that Arafat ordered the killing of a French engineer, which was presumably related to Arafat’s Moroccan side, in order to prevent the Frenchman to reveal Arafat’s true identity. The French engineer was killed from a landmine explosion, a hit executed by Sudanese assassinators. This all thing, that was extremely dubious to begin with, is becoming more and more of a joke. At least it’s a good one.

could this be the greatest conspiracy of all time?
things are finally starting to make some sense!

Carefull what you say otheadp.
You wouldn't want to be considered anti semitic now, would you? :D

Dee Cee

it's acceptable nowadays.. so i wouldn't stand out particularly

He is the worst leader palestanians ever had, wait!! I meant the only leader they ever had.

leader? pfft.
looks like Dahlan is making Arafat sweat bullets.
maybe one of his men will send Arafat to the 72 virgins? amen....

At least he got his neighbours to build a second Wailing wall for him at free cost, he MUST be jewish ;)

good one... i gotta admit

LOL that's the best joke I have heard lately! ROFLOL!

You don't have to go back far into any Jew's ancestry (especially non-Askhenazi), or Arab's, to find that they are essentially the same people. Sometimes relatives come back with a vengeance.

so it seems

How relative is this proving to be? Is there already a reaction visible? How do the palestinians think about this? are there any palestinians on this board who could asses this from their point of vieuw?

I think it won't matter much in respect to elections of some kind: at least Israel HAS elections, this is some proof of democrasy no?

I can't seem to imagine Arafat being elected after this news has broken, or wouldn't Palestians care for this? would they say: "oh how cool! Our leader is in fat a Jew,...we still trust him!"

Do they have anything to say at all?

of courze zis couzld be a move to dziscredzit Arafatz

look.
"palestinians" don't "think" or "asses" anything.
any independent thinking is done only by Afatrat and the "militant" organizations

whether this is true or not...
the official story is that Afatrat was born in Egypt. he still has an Egyptian accent (why he calls himself a 'palestinian' beats me)

but anything is possible

But this could offer the opportunity to treat this conflict as an internal Israelian matter! :)

lol
if he had Israel citizenship..
then he'd be arrested like the common criminal he is

It is about time that Palestinians stop asking for their Country. They should start asking for RIGHT TO VOTE, that would be enough to make Noble Israeli councel to wet their pants. Don't you all want to see Mighty United Israel, where palestinians can vote just like any other Israeli, isn't it the True Democracy and they can have the same living standards as the current Israelis? Wouldn't that be lovely. Love to see one big happy family and true example of Democracy.

What do you say Otheadp?

i'm not sure what you mean
arabs in israel can, an do, vote
it's probably the only place in teh ME where arab women vote

as far as palestinians, unfortunately they cannot vote
even if they do.. there's only one candidate
which is corrupt, unwilling to take care of his peeps, and unable to take responsibility (except for his infidel wife's shopping bills in paris)

should israel interfere with 'palestinian' 'government'?
it's an internal matter... let them work it out for themselves