Arab TV salutes Arafat

MEMRI TV has a new collection of clips from Arab television salutes to Arafat.

Hani Al-Hassan of the Fatah Central Committ­ee clarifies the tactics of the largest Palestinian party — terror softens up the scene for ‘diplomacy’:

In Fatah we have a rule: the armed struggle sows and the political struggle reaps. He who doesn’t sow doesn’t reap, and he who sows and refuses to reap is a criminal. Therefore, when Oslo didn’t bring results, the sowing came in the form of the Intifada. The question now is whether the current period is a stage of reaping or is it a stage of sowing. We think that the current period is a phase of sowing, until we see results in the international position. We see today that there is a change in the world. Europe has changed and its position has become more clearly in our favor. America is bogged down in Iraq and doesn’t know what to do.

Colin Powell should see this while he’s packing his bags for Tel Aviv.