Twelve years after his death, a museum of the life of Yasser Arafat opens this week in the West Bank complex where he spent his last years under Israeli siege. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A member of the museum’s staff displays one of Yasser Arafat’s notebooks. “His legacy is in many ways too big for a single museum to hold,” explained the museum director, Mohammad Halayqa, said on Tuesday. Facebook Twitter Pinterest An Israeli army tank and armoured jeeps outside Yasser Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah in 2002. Asked whether Arafat’s life – and the museum – represented a period of greater agreement and unity than Palestinian society today, and Fatah’s squabbling factions, Halayqa answered diplomatically.

Source: The Guardian November 08, 2016 14:15 UTC