{"id":38238,"date":"2014-11-13T20:51:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=38238"},"modified":"2014-11-13T20:51:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:51:08","slug":"arafats-widow-says-armed-struggle-will-lead-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/arafats-widow-says-armed-struggle-will-lead-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Arafat\u2019s Widow Says Armed Struggle will Lead Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suha Arafat, wife of the late Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, appeared to accuse Hamas on Wednesday of perpetrating \u201cgenocide\u201d in the Gaza Strip, and denounced the terror group for Islamizing the coastal enclave and holding its inhabitants \u201chostage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Italian La Republicca in honor of the tenth anniversary of her husband\u2019s death, Suha Arafat called on Palestinians to resume negotiations with Israel and renounce violence. She also addressed the allegations that Arafat was poisoned and expressed the hope that the French authorities would get to the bottom of the matter, but insisted she could not cast blame on Israel or Palestinian suspects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamas has taken people hostage. When I see what is happening in Gaza \u2026 It\u2019s a genocide. A generation that is growing up in violence, with no education, with no hope but emigration,\u201d she said. (Ironically, Arafat\u2019s successor Mahmoud Abbas accused israel of committing genocide in Gaza, in an inflammatory address to the UN General Assembly in September.)<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/arafats-widow-says-armed-struggle-will-lead-nowhere\/\">The Times of Israel <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suha Arafat, wife of the late Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, appeared to accuse Hamas on Wednesday of perpetrating \u201cgenocide\u201d in the Gaza Strip, and denounced the terror group for Islamizing the coastal enclave and holding its inhabitants \u201chostage.\u201d In an interview with the Italian La Republicca in honor of the tenth anniversary of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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