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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) meets Abie Nathan in Tunis in this July 4, 1991 file photo. Nathan, an Israeli peace activist who blazed trails to Egypt and the Palestinians that his country would eventually follow, died on August 27, 2008. He was 81. Picture taken July 4, 1991.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) greets Abie Nathan in Tunis in this July 4, 1991 file photo. Nathan, an Israeli peace activist who blazed trails to Egypt and the Palestinians that his country would eventually follow, died on August 27, 2008. He was 81. Picture taken July 4, 1991.

Senior Palestinian diplomat in Baghdad, Dalil Qassous, right, stands by a photograph showing the late PLO military chief Khalil al-Wazir, left in photo, and the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right in photo, at a clinic run by the Palestinian Red Crescent in the Baladiyat district of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. In recent months sectarian violence has dropped sharply across Iraq, however Iraq's Palestinians who number about 11,000 and have come under attack by Shiite gunmen in the past, remain one of the most vulnerable groups, a U.N. official says.

A man hold pictures of late Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish (bottom L), near images of late Palestinian leaser Yasser Arafat (C) and late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein (L), on August 10, 2008 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinians today mourned the passing of Mahmud Darwish, who gave voice to their decades-old struggle and is widely considered one of the Arab world's greatest modern poets. In a televised address after Darwish died on Saturday in a US hospital from complications following open-heart surgery, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas declared three days of official mourning.

Palestinian children shout slogans and hold posters depicting late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) and and Dalal Mughrabi, a woman guerrilla who led a bloody 1978 raid on Israel, during a rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 16, 2008, supporting the prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group. Hezbollah handed the bodies of two Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross on Wednesday to be exchanged for Lebanese prisoners held by Israel in a deal viewed as a triumph by the Lebanese Shi'ite guerrilla group.

Arab holiday makers film models of notable people, with late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, at the Hall of Fame in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, June 7, 2008. The Hall of Fame was founded in 2002 and houses more than 50 silicone statues of the world's famous people in the political, artistic and cultural fields.

Palestinian shop owners display a large poster featuring a combo of portraits of Hamas supremo in Gaza, former premier Ismail Haniya, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas, superimposed on a picture of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock mosque, on June 5, 2008 in Gaza City. Abbas called yesterday for a national dialogue toward reconciliation between his Fatah party and Hamas, which seized the Gaza Strip from forces loyal to him last June. Other posters hung on the sides show, late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R), and slain spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

With a poster showing late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, a vendor prepares coffee for a customer, unseen, at the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, April 27, 2008. The Palestinian economy won't grow in 2008, largely due to continued Israeli restrictions on Palestinian movement, and despite massive foreign aid and Palestinian reform efforts, the World Bank predicted Sunday.

Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt speaks in front of portraits of former Palestinain leader Yasser Arafat (L) and current President Mahmud Abbas (R) during a press conference in the West Bank city of Nablus on April 9, 2008. The Israeli army arrested some 30 Palestinians from the rival Fatah and Hamas factions in the northern city of Nablus overnight, Palestinian security officials said today.

Under portraits of late leader Yasser Arafat, left and President Mahmoud Abbas, top right, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center right, walks with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney following a press conference at Abbas' office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, March 23, 2008. Vice President Dick Cheney began Easter Sunday with a prayer and the singing of "Amazing Grace" at a tiny chapel in Jerusalem, then launched into a day of talks about conflict: the Mideast peace process and the rising influence of Iran in the region.

Seated under the portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, top left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, speaks with Abbas during their meeting in the Palestinian presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, March 4, 2008. Israeli aircraft sent missiles crashing into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, pressing an offensive against Palestinian rocket squads even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the region to try to rescue peace talks amid the latest outbreak of violence. Rice hoped in a meeting later Tuesday to persuade Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to return to negotiations he cut off Sunday after more than 120 Gazans were killed in an Israeli operation against militants who bombard southern Israel with rocket and mortar fire.

With the background of the portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East Quartet envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at a press conference during his visit to the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday Feb. 7, 2008. Israeli ground forces backed by warplanes exchanged fire with Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a teacher and six militants.

Moroccan people waving Moroccan flags, hold photos of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, and late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, rear center, march during a protest against Israeli economic sanctions against Palestinians in the Gaza strip, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 in Casablanca, Morocco. Earlier this month, Israel tightened its already stringent restrictions on the movement of goods into Gaza in response to ongoing rocket fire at southern Israel from the territory, causing a severe shortage of fuel, electricity cutbacks and a lack of some basic foods. About 1,000 people marched through the streets of Casablanca to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people.

A Palestinian police officer stands by a mural painting of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, right, and late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, left, during a march against Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank town of Jenin, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. The international Red Cross issued a dire warning on the state of basic services in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, calling on Israel to lift a blockade it has imposed in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.