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TIME.com: The Palestinian Authority's minister for Jerusalem affairs, Faisal Husseini, was buried Friday in the Holy City after dying of a heart attack. What was his legacy, and how will his death affect Palestinian politics...
...Jamil Hamad: Faisal Husseini was a symbol of the Palestinian national movement's determination to keep Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state. He represented a tradition and a history of Palestinian pride and struggle. His father was killed in a battle between Israelis and Palestinians in 1948, west of Jerusalem, and had always been hailed as a national hero. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is also his cousin...
...Faisal Husseini's name had been mentioned more than once as a possible successor to Arafat. As a Jerusalemite, a product of a family with a history of struggle, and as a clean person. He had also been a bridge between Palestinians on the West Bank and the exiled PLO in Tunis, because he served for a long time on the central committee of Fatah and regularly traveled to Tunis to consult with the leadership there. At the same time, in the eyes of those on the West Bank, he was not an outsider; he knew what he was talking...
...ideas, a moderate, but also a nationalist. He had succeeded in establishing Orient House as a Palestinian address in Jerusalem, and that gave him a great deal of political influence. Besides meeting Arafat in Ramallah or Gaza, foreign envoys and diplomats used to come to Orient House and meet Faisal Husseini. And there was a great deal of political significance in that. The Israelis many times expressed their dissatisfaction over the functioning of Orient House - Netanyahu even tried to close it down...
...threat. Minutes later, the Tanzim cleared out, leaving the residents of this small street on the edge of Nablus to face Israel's retribution. A heavy machine gun ripped through the metal gate that had provided the gunmen with their cover. Across the street, a tank shell thundered into Faisal Malawani's storeroom. The next morning, the charred concrete was still too hot to touch...