Unsurprisingly—and entirely in keeping with the sleaze-fest organised by disgraced former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his wife, Michelle—Suha Arafat was also present at the party.
Suha Arafat embezzled tens of millions of US dollars which were transferred to Malta and subsequently invested in several properties through her Maltese company.
The sums involved may have been considerably higher. Yasser Arafat held accounts in Swiss and French banks containing hundreds of millions of dollars which were diverted from funds intended for the Palestinian people. An IMF audit estimated Arafat’s embezzlement to reach up to $900 million while independent investigations subsequently confirmed that he had embezzled at least up to $300 million.
Yet he is still celebrated by people who conveniently gloss over his record of turning the Palestinian cause into a permanent and meaningless struggle—one that brought endless conflict and destruction to his own people instead of delivering a functioning Palestinian state.
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