Yasser Arfaat as a symbol and as man

Well at last Arfaat died peacefully in Paris ,after a very long life full of many stages from Resistence to Peace ,from union to conspiracies ,from exile to home again

with this man's departure,an era in the Mid East and the arab World will end some how ,the Era of Arab diginty and union ,a product from Nasser rule ,it was and it is and will be forever a good dream but it can be accomplished in the dictatorship that is spread from the Gulf to the Ocean

Back to Arfaat 's life ,today and till now the Tv is opened on Al-jazeera mainly then on Al-Arabeya ,then on El-Manar channel (owned by Hazb Allah of Lebanon and I was surprised to find the coverage of the event by them was excellent despite the relations between the palestinian authority and the lebanese Party is somehow not so good )

All channels are broadcasting things about his life ,for me as young generation it is for the first to hear it and it was surprising for me ,for my parents it wasn't something new ,they already know about it

in Brief this man's life can be turned in to a successful tv-series or a movie full of drama ,action and even comedy,it was full of contridictions

Beginning from his childhood ,brought up far way from Home in Egypt ,then joining the resistence group of Fatah (sorry for the spelling ,it may be somehow difficult to write certain letters from arabic in to English ) ,the Organization of palestinian liberation

during the 50s the organization hadn't too much support except from Egypt may be ,Jordan(a huge portion of population in Jordan is palestinian ,especailly after the six days way in 1967) and syria ,other then that most arab world was under a foreign rule

in the 60s the name of the organization and Yasser Arfaat's name began to appear to arabic public ,it was the nasser Era ,the dreams of the Arab union and Arab dignity after years of humilitaion in the Arab Land were the main characteristic for this time,
as I said before I got nothing against these dreams in fact for me it isnot just an arabic dream (a song was made having the same meaning from few years ) but it is a hope that can change in to wonderful reality ,and changing it in to reality cann't be in words ,or through a foreign support ,it comes from us as arab people

anyway back to Abu Amar (Arfaat's nickname) ,these arab dreams became dreadful nightmares after the six days war, all the hopes and dreams of better life that was given to Arabs by dictators like nasser and El-assad of syria was all illusion anddeception yet one battle gave hope to the Arabs again and confidence in the arab people

the dignity battle as it was called , a battle between 100 palestinians led by Yasser Arfaat and the iserali aramy ,the name of Yasser Arfaat associated with the Arabic dignity for many people who lived that event ,Dignity and resistence he symbolized them for many people till now

The palestinain Issue before Arfaat I feel it hadn't the same importance for the world ,in fact I guess all the operations against Iseral which is considered as Terrorist acts ,was to make the world pay attetion to the Palestinian issue ,till now many people call Arfaat a terrorist but many terrorists in the world became politicans and peace makers now , Lalia El-shahid for example the representative of Palestine in France ,used to hijack airjets in the past ,and more then this Mr.Ariel Sharon is a good example

Arfaat in the arab world isnot so popular in some specific parts like Kuwait( he supported Saddam Invasion to Kuwait along with late King Hussein ) ,this Ramdan in this year ,the first private own tv channel in Kuwait made fun from Arfaat

in Lebanon (lebanese people don't forget the attempt of some palestinians among them Arfaat to take their land as a subsititue for palestine ,causing a civil war and their existence in Lebanon was the so-called reason for the invasion of Lebanon by the Iserali army with its defense minister at that time Ariel Sharon ,causing wounds and troubles till now lebanon lives in ,a ghost of the past always appears for lebanese people when the talk about cancelling the right of return to the palestinian refuges ,the lebanese are ready to fight the whole world for it,

in Jordan ,some people hated him ,despite the fact that large percentage of People in Jordan are Palestinians including Queen Rania ABD ALLAH ,but also the traces of the black september are there, black september in the late 1970 or 1969 (can't remember) ,when Arfaat and his companions began to act in Jordan as if it were their land .working with their freedom forgetting the King and the people who host them

even in Egypt the land which he raised in and lived his childhood and youth and became familier with the world of resistence and war (he joined the Egyptian Army when Palestinians had the rights to join it,then he joined the liberation organization ) ,many egyptians remembered (including some members of my family ) he was so happy when president Anwar El-sadaat was killed ,he was among the arabs who refused the Peace with Iseral at that time despite the fact that he would have took from them much more land in that time ,than what he had took now ,in the insults against Egypt and the Sadaat were too much to any one to forget .

I guess Arfaat's problem is that he concentrated more on the Arab -Arab conflict then with his conflict with Iseral and the world

He used to call El-Sadaat as Traitor then after 20 years he signed the Peace agreement with Iseral and took just a few pieces from his land !!

from support of USSR to the support of U.S

anyway there were 6 attempts for killing him ,one was from a group his own companion !

I consider Arfaat as an arabian legend in contridictions ,brought up in exile ,then back to home to die outside it ,then to funeral in another country then to burial in home with a bunch of soil from El-Quds (Jerusalm)

tomorrow will be the funeral in Cairo from the EL-Gala Mosque ,with an offical military funeral ,tomorrow will the 12th of November (Youm El-Quds) ,jerusalm day ,half of AQSA Mosque (third holy place for muslim in Jerusalm) was burned in 1968 by a radical Iserali

Strange isn't it!

for turth I felt more sad for Shekih Ziad of UAE then Arfaat , Shekih Ziad Presented the Arab Dignity and courage then in Arfaat

anyway God Bless them both and may they rest in Peace