PA TV shows footage of Arafat glorifying Martyrdom-death and defining the conflict with Israel as religious
PA TV news report about Arafat with background photographs of him with Clinton, Rabin, Barak:
"From Madrid to Oslo and Washington, and what came between them and what followed, culminating at Camp David, Arafat remained true to the [Palestinian] right. And then the negotiations collapsed because of the Israeli arrogance, and the land was set on fire with the Intifada of 2000."
[Recording played of Arafat in his headquarters in Ramallah: They want me a prisoner, expelled, or dead – no! I say to them – A Martyr! A Martyr! A Martyr! And they [Palestinians] are in Ribat until the Day of Judgment. The Shahid (Martyr) [in Jerusalem] is [worth] forty Shahids (elsewhere). Allah, grant us Shahada (Martyrdom death) on the land of Ribat (religious conflict/war), the first direction of prayer, the third most important place after the two mosques in Mecca and Medina."
"From Madrid to Oslo and Washington, and what came between them and what followed, culminating at Camp David, Arafat remained true to the [Palestinian] right. And then the negotiations collapsed because of the Israeli arrogance, and the land was set on fire with the Intifada of 2000."
[Recording played of Arafat in his headquarters in Ramallah: They want me a prisoner, expelled, or dead – no! I say to them – A Martyr! A Martyr! A Martyr! And they [Palestinians] are in Ribat until the Day of Judgment. The Shahid (Martyr) [in Jerusalem] is [worth] forty Shahids (elsewhere). Allah, grant us Shahada (Martyrdom death) on the land of Ribat (religious conflict/war), the first direction of prayer, the third most important place after the two mosques in Mecca and Medina."