Yasser Arafat

Aims and Learning Outcomes

Aims

• To explain why the Middle East region of Palestine is so often an area of conflict

• To examine the role played by Yasser Arafat in causing conflict and bringing peace

Learning Outcomes

These notes should help students to improve and develop their knowledge and understanding of such issues as:

• The reasons for conflict between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs
• Why Arafat decided that guerrilla warfare was the best tactic for the PLO to use
• Why Arafat has been prepared to negotiate and compromise in the 1990s