Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat                  The Middle East, once an area of severe fighting and active terrorism, is now free of violence due to the actions of one man, Yasser Arafat. Yasser Arafat has helped create a place where the Palestine and Israeli people can live together. This peaceful environment did not come easily though. It took years of work and controversy for Yasser to make the two Arab nations live peacefully together. Through Yasser Arafat's …showed first 75 words of 651 total…

…showed last 75 words of 651 total…was an Israeli-Palestinian accord, signed in Washington on September 13, 1993. For the first time, Israel recognized the PLO. Israel granted the PLO self-rule in the Gaza strip and Jericho. This accord was the beginning to a permanent agreement made in 1995. In recognition of this, Arafat shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin.         Through Yasser Arafat's efforts, both violent and peaceful, the Palestine and Israeli people can now live a life of peace together.