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Arafat (äräfät`) or Arafa (äräfä`), granite hill, Saudi Arabia, near Mecca Mecca (mĕk`ə) or Makkah ..... Click the link for more information. . The hill was an ancient pagan sanctuary and is shrouded in many legends. It is a site for prayers during the hajj hajj (häj), the pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, one of the five basic requirements (arkan or "pillars") of Islam. ..... Click the link for more information. , the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Atop the hill is a minaret, reached by broad stone steps. On the 60th step is a platform with a pulpit from which the khutba (pilgrimage address) is delivered on the Day of Arafa. The hill is also called Jabal ar Rahm [Arab.,=mountain of mercy]. Arafat1 Yasser ('j[+ae]s&). born 1929, Palestinian leader; cofounder of Al Fatah (1956), leader from 1968 of the Palestine Liberation Organization, president of the Palestinian National Authority from 1996: signed a peace agreement with Israel (1993); Nobel peace prize 1994 with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin Arafat2 a hill in W Saudi Arabia, near Mecca: a sacred site of Islam, visited by pilgrims performing the hajj How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Twenty years before he joined Bill Clinton and Yitzhak Rabin in Washington for that famous handshake--and proceeded to become Clinton's most frequent foreign guest at the White House--Yasser Arafat planned and directed the murder of an American ambassador and his deputy chief of mission. Satloff may be unaware that on an official visit to Washington in 1998, the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat expressed a strong desire to visit the Holocaust museum, but his request was rejected by the museum. In fact, Oslo's acceptance of Arafat was intended by Israel to marginalize Hamas and have it disarmed. |
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