Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Kupfuura: Muna 1944, Arafat akanyoresa paYunivhesiti yaMambo Fuad I uye akapedza kudzidza muna 1950. Payunivhesiti, akakurukura nevaJudha uye akaverenga mabhuku aTheodor Herzl nevamwe vaZionist vakakurumbira. Pakazosvika 1946 akanga ari murudzi rwechiArabhu uye akatanga kuwana zvombo kuti zvipfuudzirwe kune yaimbova British Mandate yePalestine, kuti ishandiswe nevasina kurongeka muArab Higher Committee uye mauto ehondo tsvene. Munguva ye1948 Arab-Israeli Hondo, Arafat akasiya Yunivhesiti uye, pamwe nevamwe maArabu, vakatsvaga kupinda muPalestine kuti vabatane nemauto eArabhu vachirwisa mauto eIsrael uye kugadzirwa kwenyika yeIsrael. Zvisinei, panzvimbo pokubatana nemapoka evaPalestinian fedayeen, Arafat akarwa pamwe chete neMuslim Brotherhood, kunyange zvazvo asina kubatana nesangano racho. Akatora chikamu muhondo munharaunda yeGaza (iyo yaive nzvimbo huru yehondo yemauto eEjipitori panguva yekunetsana). Mukutanga kwa1949, hondo yakanga ichipera ichibatsira Israeri, uye Arafat akadzokera kuCairo nekuda kwekushayikwa kwekutsigirwa. Mushure mekudzokera kuYunivhesiti, Arafat akadzidza mainjiniya uye akashanda semutungamiri weGeneral Union yeVadzidzi vePalestine (GUPS) kubva muna 1952 kusvika muna 1956. Mugore rake rokutanga semutungamiri wesangano, Yunivhesiti yakatumidzwa zita reYunivhesiti yeCairo mushure mekunge coup yakaitwa neFree Officers Movement ichipidigura Mambo Farouk I. Panguva iyoyo, Arafat akanga apedza kudzidza aine dhigirii rebachelor muinjiniya uye akadaidzwa kuita basa kuti arwe nemauto eEjipitori panguva yeSuez Crisis; zvisinei, haana kumbobvira arwa. Gare gare gore iroro, pamusangano muPrague, akapfeka keffiyeh chena yakasimba - yakasiyana neyakagadzirwa nemambure ayo akagamuchira gare gare muKuwait, iyo yaizova chiratidzo chake.  Mubvunzo: Arafat akadzokera rini kuCairo?
Muna 1949