Watch out palestinians. You might just experience a real food shortage.
Suha Arafat, the widow of the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat, says she wants to return to Palestine because life in the Diaspora has become unbearable.
“I will be back to Palestine, to Ramallah. My life and my daughter’s life in Diaspora has become intolerable. We lost security and safety as Abu Ammar left us. Every day since he passed I feel boredom and deadly sadness,” Suha told the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat.
Palestinians marked the fourth Anniversary of the death of their iconic leader on Tuesday. Arafat died of a mysterious medical condition in a Paris hospital in 2004. He spent his last days under besieged by the Israeli military in the presidential compound in Ramallah.
Suha is currently living in Malta after moving there from Tunisia.
I’m thinking either she ran out of designer shoes to buy, or the Maltese kicked her out as well.
“He used to care for every Palestinian family and take care of their small and large concerns ranging from the establishment of a Palestinian state to the simple daily life requirements. He also cared for his small family, me and my daughter, Zahwa.
You can say that again.
Look at what happened to our homeland and our cause and the political heritage. I miss him today and all Palestine misses him. All misfortunes can be simplified and forgotten, except death as its pain keeps deepening and increasing,” Suha added.
“When Abu Ammar [Arafat] was alive, he asked me and Zahwa to stay in Gaza and never leave after Israel bombarded our home. He refused our return to Ramallah because he considered himself a brave soldier who refused to use his wife and daughter as human shields for his protection.
Correct. He just used other people’s wives and children as human shields for his protection.
I have not felt homesick like I do today. I was sure about the dream of a Palestinian state and about Palestinian unity. Nowadays, I watch the news of unity and pray for the future of the Palestinian cause,” Suha said.
Thirteen-year-old Zahwa Arafat spoke briefly via telephone to Al-Hayat as she was heading to school, “I have exams, and it is tough stuff. I wish my father was alive, so he could have prayed for me to pass exams. I remember him as a leader and a struggler. I still remember how he used to telephone us every day asking me to focus on Arabic language and read the holy Quran. I went along with my mother to hajj [pilgrimage] in Saudi Arabia, and that could have thrilled my father.”
But not as much as some tiger-hyena same-sex action.
