A town in southern France has voted to name a street after the late Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat, the Times of Israel website reports today (June 5, 2015).
A majority of the town council in La Seyne-sur-Mer -- located outside Toulon on the Mediterranean coast -- voted in favor of the move, the French newspaper "Nice Matin" reported yesterday.
Several council members protested the move, with one calling Arafat "a terrorist."
"There is also a Yitzhak Rabin Street in the neighborhood," Mayor Marc Vuillemot fired back at the opponents. He noted that the late Israeli prime minister won a Nobel Peace Prize alongside Arafat for signing the Oslo Accords in 1993.
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