Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography

Naval War College Review | April 1, 2004| | Copyright

Rubin, Barry, and Judith Colp Rubin. Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003. 354pp. $27.50

The Palestinian people would have been better off as citizens of Israel. That is a conclusion one can reach after digesting the political biography of Yasir Arafat by the veteran Middle Eastern writerreporter team of Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin.

The book is clear on its takeaways. To understand Arafat, you must understand the "struggle" as well as his record of failure. Arafat now holds the record for creating, and remaining the leader of, the planet's ...

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