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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...
...Husseini's political credentials weren't based only on his family background. He was jailed by the Israelis several times, and that earned him tremendous respect among Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank. He was not a leader who fought the battle from Tunis (headquarters of Yasser Arafat and the PLO until the Oslo Accord allowed them to return to Ramallah and Gaza). He remained behind and expressed his national feeling on the ground, and went to jail for it. And one of the more important things about his legacy, also, was that his name was never mentioned...
Once an unspoken topic, honor killing in recent years has begun to be spotlighted in the media, thanks in part to Rana Husseini, a trailblazing reporter for the English-language Jordan Times. Since 1996 the Jordanian Women's Union has operated a hot line for women in distress. Creating a safe house to protect them is the next objective of activists. Abolishing the legal loopholes is another...
...Palestinian cities, towns and villages in the West Bank, remaining only in positions necessary for protecting Israeli settlements. But the Israelis say they will leave just four cities for now, and that further redeployments will stretch into mid-1997. Arafat's chief representative in Jerusalem, Faisal Husseini, has called the drawn-out scheme a "disaster" for the Palestinians...