[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Rewind to 2002. The Arab League...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
had just endorsed its land-for-peace initiative, and late Paleostinian President Yasser Arafat was shouting "martyr, martyr, martyr" live on TV while under Israeli siege in his bedroom in Ramallah. Western journalists swarmed Leb’s refugee camps to add color to their coverage of the vaporous Arab League summit, and I was a fixer who translated what Paleostinians wished to tell the world.
After showing the big keys and Ottoman titles of the houses they had abandoned in Paleostine, refugees swore to fight to the last for their right of return. But when the cameras were switched off, one of them pulled me aside, and said: "My daughter is in Germany, maybe your journalist friends can help me move there with her."