No individual sacrificed more, risked more or accomplished more for the just cause of the Palestinian people than Yasser Arafat, who died 15 years ago this week. Arafat has been vilified by Israelis and Jews for good reason: He took Golda Meir’s racist quote that said the Palestinians “did not exist” and proved them morally, ethically and legally wrong. He was the inspiration for millions of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims ...
![Sharon bore responsibility "for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge" and "not taking appropriate measures to prevent bloodshed." [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6283880.jpg?itok=O5y5T4Ty "Sharon bore responsibility \"for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge\" and \"not taking appropriate measures to prevent bloodshed.\" [AFP]")
![Sharon died at a hospital near Tel Aviv on January 11, 2014 aged of 85, after spending eight years in a coma. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6283860_1.jpg?itok=Eso-OF7L "Sharon died at a hospital near Tel Aviv on January 11, 2014 aged of 85, after spending eight years in a coma. [AFP]")
![A file picture taken in October 1973 and provided by the Israeli Army shows Ariel Sharon with Moshe Dayan on the western side of the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippor war. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/sharon.jpg?itok=KmSt5pk2 "A file picture taken in October 1973 and provided by the Israeli Army shows Ariel Sharon with Moshe Dayan on the western side of the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippor war. [AFP]")
![Former Israeli prime minister dies, eight years after he went into coma following a stroke. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6280875.jpg?itok=hl58h4wj "Former Israeli prime minister dies, eight years after he went into coma following a stroke. [AFP]")
![A Palestinian woman passes by a sign marking the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut, Lebanon [GALLO/GETTY]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/sabra_shatila_getty.jpg?itok=OasUYadQ "A Palestinian woman passes by a sign marking the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut, Lebanon [GALLO/GETTY]")
