Leader of the Palestinian people after the separation of Palestine from Jordan following the 1968 Arab-Israeli War. Was he a freedom fighter, devoted to the independence and well-being of his people, or was he a terrorist, as many Israelis insisted? Did he seek peace, as suggested by his shared Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, or was this a tactical deception? When he eventually rejected Prime Minister Barak's and the Israeli Labor government's final peace proposal, was it because he feared assassination, as he allegedly told U.S. President Clinton, the broker of the talks, or because he truly believed the proposal inadequate?