Official PA daily compares Arafat to Jesus - both were “Palestinian”
Excerpt of a column by Muwaffaq Matar, Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the official PA daily
“[Former PLO Chairman and PA President] Yasser Arafat is the will of a people that was embodied in the figure of a self-sacrificing fighter leader. It was our fate that the first self-sacrificing fighter (Jesus) [parentheses in source] would be Palestinian, and that the self-sacrificing fighter for peace on the land of Palestine and on earth would also be Palestinian.”