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Arafat: The Fabricator of a Nation Built on Hatred and Historical Theft

by Ram ben Ze’ev



Zahwa Arafat
Zahwa Arafat

There is a great myth that has been sold to the world for decades – that a so-called Palestinian national identity, rooted in ancient history, culture, and land, has always existed and that this identity was somehow stolen. This myth did not develop organically. It was crafted, marketed, packaged, and distributed as propaganda by one Egyptian-born man: Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, later known by the more famous alias, Yasser Arafat.


Arafat was neither a founder of a nation nor a liberator. He was a master manipulator of language and emotion, who entered the world at precisely the moment when Arab hatred for Jews was desperate for a new outlet. After the Shoah, there was a brief period where anti-Jewish hatred became socially and morally unacceptable in the West. That required a rebrand. A new excuse had to be invented for the same hatred. Arafat seized the opportunity.



Rewriting a Region, One Lie at a Time

The British Mandate for Palestine spelled out its purpose clearly: to create a National Home for the Jewish People. The very term “Palestine,” historically, is a reference to Jews, Jewish communities, and Jewish sovereignty. This was true before Arafat, before the Ottoman Empire, before the Crusades, before the fall of Rome, and before Islam itself. The Tanakh testifies to it. The Qur’an testifies to it. This is not a matter of debate; it is the published claim of both sources. The land was given by G-D to בני ישראל (Bnei Yisrael – the Children of Israel).


And yet Arafat, a man who was born in Egypt, used theatrical speeches, invented terminology, revisionist history, and a costume of keffiyeh nationalism to create a fabricated ethnic identity for the purpose of opposing the Jewish State. It was never about nationhood. It was always about destroying Israel.


A Nation Without a Country, A President Without a State

Arafat is widely described as a “Palestinian political leader,” as Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (established 1964), President of Palestine (1989–2004), and President of the Palestinian Authority (1994–2004). All this without a tangible state. No recognised borders. No ancient coins, no historic language, no established flag, no government, no monarchy, no empire, no literature, or archaeological continuity. Nothing at all except a false story and a great deal of hatred.


He was, at best, the leader of a terrorist organisation disguised as a government. He helped organise terrorist attacks with the Muslim Brotherhood, the same ideology that later formed Hamas. He co-founded Fatah – a paramilitary group whose explicit goal was, and remains, the eradication of Israel. The modern terror infrastructure in the Middle East did not emerge without him. He engineered it.



The Greatest Theft Wasn’t Land – It Was Money

It is often forgotten that Arafat stole billions from the very people he claimed to represent. Not millions. Billions. Intelligence agencies in the United States and Israel identified as much as $6 billion diverted into secret accounts controlled only by Arafat and his financial adviser Mohammed Rashid. Not a penny went to “liberation,” healthcare, education, or building an economy. It funded his personal empire.


Money was hidden in Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands. It was not used to improve the life of a Gazian or a single Arab in Ramallah. It was used to ensure his family and beneficiaries, his daughter, Zahwa Arafat, would never need to work again. Even in death, wealth found its way to his heirs while the people he promised “freedom” lived in poverty.


The Legacy of Arafat

The most tragic legacy of Arafat’s manufactured nationhood is not just terrorism or the political chaos that followed him. It is that a large part of the world still falls for the lie that Judaism and Zionism are foreign to the land of Israel. The opposite is true. Arafat proved that propaganda can be more powerful than truth when the world is willing to believe a lie.


He hijacked a religious, historical, and legal claim that belongs to בני ישראל. He weaponised sympathy and guilt after the Shoah. He convinced entire populations that the people who inherited the land from G-D were occupiers on their own soil.



Arafat was not a liberator. He was the architect of one of the most successful deceptions in modern history – the creation of a national identity built not on culture or heritage, but on hatred of Jews.



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