A legacy of voids & visions.Yasir Arafat left a void of readership read·er·ship n. 1. The readers of a publication considered as a group. 2. Chiefly British The office of a reader at a university. . He also left a void of achievement. It is that second void that really matters, considering that he led the Palestinian movement for some 40 years. Pardon me if I don't join in the chorus about how his great achievement was the way he represented the "aspirations aspirations npl → aspiraciones fpl (= ambition); ambición f aspirations npl (= hopes, ambition) → aspirations fpl " for statehood state·hood n. The status of being a state, especially of the United States, rather than being a territory or dependency. of the Palestinian people For other uses of "Palestinian", see Definitions of Palestine and Palestinian. Palestinian people (Arabic: الشعب الفلسطيني, and, through terrorism and resistance, put their cause on the world map. Excuse me, but he put the Palestinian cause on the world map in 1974, when he addressed the UN General Assembly. What did he do with art that attention after that? Very little. There is a message in his life and legacy for every world leader: If art you do is express the aspirations, but never produce the reality, history will judge you harshly. Any honest history of Arafat will judge him on his voids, not his visions. |
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