How have his actions influenced world powers , Israel and Palestinians?

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Is about Yasser Arafat the president of Palestine , the arab - israeli conflict coursework

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For decades Yasser Arafat was the embodiment of the Palestinian cause.
To his supporters he was the only man capable of keeping Palestinian hopes alive and at the forefront of global consciousness.
To critics he was an inveterate terrorist who failed his people.
He was in equal measures national treasure and national liability for many Palestinians. While raising their hopes of independence he was also seen by some as one of the impediments to Palestinian democracy and civil society.
Arafat was blamed by Israel and the US for the failure in July that year of the peace talks at Camp David. He insisted though that the deal he was offered was far less generous than it has since been portrayed, and, as he put it, "the Arab leader has not been born who would give up Jerusalem".
A new intifada - now armed, with Arafat at its heart - was launched in the West Bank and Gaza.
Matters came to a head in December 2001 when, following a wave of suicide attacks, the Israeli government - led by Arafat's old adversary Ariel Sharon - blockaded him in his West Bank headquarters, accusing him of instigating the terror on Israel's streets.
Meanwhile, the explosion of pent-up anger of Palestinians who had lost faith in the peace process, and in Arafat's leadership, fed the ongoing violence.
Suicide bombings brought severe Israeli retribution, which trapped and isolated Arafat in the ruins of his bombed-out headquarters in Ramallah