Sliema, Malta – Arafat Widow Speaks Of Turbulent Marriage

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    FILE) A file picture dated 22 March 2000 released on 10 February 2013 shows Suha and Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, as they waited to greet Pope John Paul II. According to media reports on 10 February 2013, Suha Arafat, who married the PLO Chairman when she was 27 and he was 61 in 1990, told a Turkish magazine that she tried to divorce the Palestinian leader 100 times, but he prevented her from doing so, and says her 14 year marriage to him was 'a big mistake on my part.'  EPA/JIM HOLLANDERSliema, Malta – Nine years after his death, Yasser Arafat’s widow says her marriage to him was a ‘big mistake,’ and that despite her wishes, the former Palestinian leader refused to allow her to leave.

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    In an interview with Turkish Newspaper Sabah (http://bit.ly/Xmy0FI), Suha Arafat said, “I loved Arafat, but the marriage to him was a big mistake on my part.”

    The 49 year-old Suha married Arafat in 1990 when she was 27. Arafat was 61 when the two wed.

    Suha said that during their 14 year marriage, which ultimately ended with Arafat’s death in 2oo4, she tried leaving him countless times, but that Arafat prevented her from doing so.

    “I tried to leave to leave him hundreds of times, but he wouldn’t let me. Everyone knows he wouldn’t permit me to leave. Especially those in his servitude, they know very well what it was like.”


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    victorg
    victorg
    11 years ago

    Homely isn’t she! You would think with all the billions he stole from his people he could have found a prettier trophy wife

    OyGevald
    OyGevald
    11 years ago

    Ah ha! So it was she who poisoned him! Not the Israelis as the Palestinian squatters implied.

    Leroy1
    Leroy1
    11 years ago

    Amazing she still hasn’t died from what he died from….

    11 years ago

    I really feel sorrow and sympathy for Mrs. Arafat. Now will she return to the poor Paletineans the hundreds of millions of dollars that she stahed away in foreign countries. Its called stealing by any other name. What chutzpa she has.

    11 years ago

    I’m sure the millions of dollars she gained from the marriage are providing slight comfort to her in her older age.

    11 years ago

    Maybe she will come over to Israel’s side now.

    11 years ago

    Oh, puh-lease! I’m sure she didn’t have a “traditional” marriage but the oodles of money more than compensated!

    DanielBarbaz
    DanielBarbaz
    11 years ago

    what a couple. Both are irresistible. if you recall Hillary Clinton hugged and kissed her after Suhah made allegations of blood placed in matzos that Jews baked. How could Hillary help herself?

    And Yassir…….what a looker. No wonder a 27 year old meiskeit fell for him when he was 61. How could anyone resist someone who is such a model of masculinity.

    Smokey
    Smokey
    11 years ago

    In view of rumors that have circulated concerning Arafat’s sexual orientation, I wonder if it can be shown that their daughter is not biologically related to Arafat. And what compelled Arafat to marry a Christian woman?

    victorg
    victorg
    11 years ago

    Reply to 10. Hillary one of Israel’s staunchest supporters? Either you’re on drugs or you’re Chelsea Clinton. Which is it, come clean!