Yasser Arafat, Thief?
Atlantic, September 2005In a long piece titled "How Arafat Destroyed Palestine," David Samuels asserts that Yasser Arafat and his cronies stole more than half of the $7 billion that the Palestinian Authority received in foreign aid. He also points out that the so-called Authority doesn't exist—instead, there's "a vast archipelago of randomly located government ministries, competing security-services headquarters, and prisons that operate according to no coordinated plan."