Fatah official Munir Al-Jaghoub denounces Suha Arafat's apology for UAE flags being burned by Palestinians following the Israel-UAE peace agreement
Text posted on the Facebook page of Head of the Fatah Mobilization and Organization Commission’s Information Office Munir Al-Jaghoub
Posted text: “I am not one of those on whose behalf [former PLO Chairman and PA President Yasser Arafat’s widow] Suha Arafat apologized (refers to her apology for UAE flags being burned by Palestinians following the Israel-UAE peace agreement; see note below –Ed.), because I did not authorize anyone to apologize on my behalf to the UAE for the normalization that it carried out, and I think that many of our people do not want to apologize and did not authorize anyone to apologize.”
Yasser Arafat – Founder of Fatah and former chairman of the PLO and PA. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s Arafat was behind numerous terror attacks against Israelis. Although he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 together with then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" after signing the Oslo Accords peace agreement, Arafat launched a 5-year terror campaign - the second Intifada (2000-2005) – in which more than 1,000 Israelis were murdered. Arafat died of an illness in 2004.
Israel-UAE peace agreement (Abraham Accords) – an agreement normalizing diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which was announced on Aug. 13, 2020, under the mediation of US President Donald Trump. Pursuant to the agreement, the countries will discuss bilateral cooperation on a number of topics. In exchange for the agreement, Israel agreed to suspend its previously announced plans to apply Israel's civilian law to parts of Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley as per the Trump peace plan. The US announced that “Muslims throughout the world who wish to come in peace to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque, will now be able to fly to Tel Aviv through Abu Dhabi to do so and will be welcomed.”