Israel Tried Really Hard To Assassinate Yasser Arafat, Considered Downing Passenger Plane -- HuffPost

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was so intent on assassinating Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat in the 1980s that he considered downing commercial passenger planes, according to a New York Times Magazine article published Tuesday. ...
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