Yasser Arafat’s wife endorsed Palestinian suicide attacks as legitimate resistance against Israel. In an interview published Friday in Al-Majalla, a London-based weekly magazine, Suha Arafat said that if she had a son, there would be “no greater honor” than to sacrifice him for the Palestinian cause.
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