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Yasser Arafat
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I emphasize to you that we will discover ourselves through peace more than we did through confrontation and conflict.

Yasser Arafat

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, believed to have been born this day in Cairo in 1929, was president of the Palestinian Authority (1996–2004), chairman of the PLO (1969–2004), and cowinner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Peace.

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