How has Arafat improved the lives of his people since he became leader of the PA?
• The Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has salted away billions of pounds for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in secret foreign bank accounts and investments, including property in London. The disclosure about the hidden wealth of his PLO comes amid deepening economic hardship in his Gaza and West Bank fiefdoms. …The disclosures are also likely to prompt international donors, including the European Union countries, to ask why Mr Arafat is still demanding aid for his Palestinian authority. Nor will they have been impressed by his decision to invite Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavia’s president, to Bethlehem. – Tom Gross, London Sunday Telegraph, December 5, 1999 • Five years after Oslo, unemployment has risen, freedom of movement has been restricted, Jerusalem has been practically severed from the West Bank, while corruption and human rights abuses under the P.A. have increased. A number of friends have commented to me that they would rather live under Israeli rule than that of t
