‘A giant of the Middle East is gone’: BBC TV, Nov. 11 broadcast

Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat died on Nov. 10 at 4:30 a.m. Paris time and the world reacted

"Arafat was instrumental in establishing Fatah, the mainline Palestinian resistance organization, and headed the Palestine Liberation Organization, the umbrella organization under which a number of splinter factions were grouped in their struggle to create an independent Palestinian state.

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