Talk:Suha Arafat

message: Have written my first article on Suha Arafat. Hope it cuts the mustard. Welcome feedback and changes. TerryWhitlam 05:41, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Fear not, you'll get feedback<g>. Looks fine to me, but I have a question. The article quotes a policeman saying "I once saw Arafat kiss a wounded man's groin...."  This seems....unusual. Why would Arafat kiss a wounded man's groin? Is this some tradition? - Nunh-huh 05:45, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Intro

message: This article fails to mention in its final paragraph that after Mrs. Arafat launched her anti-Israel tirade, Mrs. Clinton gave her a hug.  This led to much of the uproar.
Rightly so. Carlocarlo 01:27, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Hug 

message: I am rather proud of the article I must admit, it has been improved by others but I wrote most of it. It wasn't rushed, I took my time. I'm certainly not an Israeli propagandist, far from it. It wasn't written with a negative view at all, she's a very interesting subject and I enjoyed writing about her. Many of the positive and negative references in that link have already been included. The same article (although I think published elsewhere) was helpful to what I initially wrote. I'd much rather everyone get stuck in and make the changes they seek. Terry Whitlam 15:17, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: First time at bat

message: No-one here has specifically pointed to anything in the article that's biased. As I wrote the bulk of it I am happy to defend it. I will remove the neutrality tag after it's been there a week if there are no specific problems. I certainly don't think it's perfect - I would certainly like her birthdate - but it's a reasonable attempt at an encylopedia article. Terry Whitlam 03:02, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality?

message: * I changed the "bury alive" quote, since I have only seen, and can only find on the Internet, versions where it doesn't specifically refer to individuals within the leadership. If she said the same thing another time, then naming Qureia, Abbas & Sha'th, that should be included and appropriately sourced.
* Also, I find the article is in need of some severe editing. Parts of it is overwhelmingly POV, other parts present media accusations as factual truth (very un-Wiki), some things appear twice, etc. I guess there's been a lot of hostile editing going on here, the article seems to have been badly mangled. I fixed a few things, but far from enough. Arre 10:23, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Quote & Standards

message: This article is mainly taked from the Jewish Virtual Library, an online library that is wriiten with a zionist perspective. 
i do not know where to start editing .... --Thameen 18:53, 18 March 2006 (UTC
Is there any proof (eg DNA test| that Suha's daughter was also Arafat's child? --Vladko 16:34, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not NPOV 

message: There was a LOT of discussion, during Yasser Arafat's last years and for some years after his death, that he had personally squirrelled away Millions, perhaps Billions, of dollars in PA assets in his own personal and secret bank accounts, and that these all were inherited by Suha, who thereby became an enormously rich woman although the money rightfully belonged to the PA.  I believe an earlier version of this page mentioned this.  Perhaps the pros and cons of this issue could be included in this article inasmuch as it got a lot of attention at the time.
Sussmanbern (talk) 15:43, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inheritance of Arafat's wealth 

message: I could not help it. This article was so awful. Basically full of bad English. I have made lots of corrections. I have tried not to touch the factual parts which need lots of "help". There is a lack of basic material here: references, dates etc.  Benqish 16:43, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lots of Editing

message: Using a picture of Hilary Clinton kissing Suha Arafat seems both unnecessary and politically motivated. It can't be that difficult to find a picture of her alone or with a more significant figure in her life like say....Yasir Arafat. This would be the equivalent of using a picture of U.S. President George Bush holding King Abdullah's hands next to the title of King Abdullah's wikipedia article. While not necessarily politically motivated their is reason for suspicion.Moah 12:19, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hilary kiss 

message: A sentence in the Nigerian scam section of the page states "Some of the emails used referred to this Wikipedia article." Is this sort of self-referential statement (presumably meant as a disclaimer) acceptable? DO56 (talk) 19:46, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the lack of response, I've removed it. DO56 (talk) 21:17, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self-referential sentence 

message: Is it correct that she has been a Christian all her life? It seems very strange that a powerful Palestian terrorist-politician would marry a non-Muslim, and she not convert to Islam. Why didn't being married to someone of a different religion not discredit Yasser, and bring shame upon him in the eyes of Palestinians and his supporters? How was he able to gain and keep such a high position - wouldn't he have been seen by many as a traitor for marrying outside his faith, and not being able to have her convert to Islam? F W Nietzsche (talk) 10:09, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: When Al-Arabiya tv station interviewed in her home in Francea a couple of years ago, there was a Christmas tree in the background with Christian symbols on the walls.George Al-Shami (talk) 20:40, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

text: Read my response on your talk page; if want to add the converts category you should not deny readers of knowing that her conversion is disputed and from finding out about the Christian orthodox.George Al-Shami (talk) 20:20, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Christian!

message: On 7th August 2007, the Tunisian government officially revoked Suha Arafat's recently-granted Tunisian citizenship (Press on the occurrence). They did not revoke her daughter's, which was granted at the same time in 2006. There was no previous indication given to Arafat that this would happen, and she had been in Malta on vacation at the time. She has stated that all of her properties in Tunisia were confiscated as well. Currently there is no solid evidence on why her citizenship was revoked so abruptly, only rumors, and most surround the Tunisian President's wife, First Lady Leila Ben Ali (Reports relating to Suha Arafat/Tunisia).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.111.190.118 (talk) 18:17, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tunisian government has revoked Suha Arafat's Tunisian citizenship 

message: The sources agree that she was brought up Christian but disagree as to whether her family was Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox. Does anyone know of information that would resolve thisBill (talk) 06:10, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Orthodox or Catholic?

message: And is there a reason the article is locked? 98.249.153.218 (talk) 14:25, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It was put into semi-protected status in October, for a period of two months, for "persistent sockpuppetry". (You can find such information on the History page of the article.) -- John Broughton   (♫♫) 18:08, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: It's "request" not "bequest"

message: I think that it would be safe to add the "Converts to Islam from Christianity" category again, because although it is disputed whether she was Roman Catholic or Orthodox, she was born a Christian and converted to Islam. The category "Palestinian Muslims" by itself would indicate that she was born Muslim and was not from another religion. 72.68.77.94 (talk) 03:24, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conversion 

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