“When he lost consciousness for 15 days, the doctors told me to talk to him about things he liked to hear or things he hated to hear,” she told a Saudi women’s weekly ahead of the fifth anniversary this week of the Palestinian leader’s death.
“And so, when I was with him in his room in the intensive care unit, I read him passages from the Koran and prayers.”
Suha was honored to be Yasser Arafat’s second love, after Palestine, she said.
“When I married him, I knew what I was in for,” she said. “I knew that his first love was always Palestine and its capital, Jerusalem. But it was an honor for me to be the second love, after Palestine.”
When Suha first met Yasser, she was frightened, she told the paper.
“At the beginning I was attracted to the leader of the revolution, then to the courage and masculinity and intelligence, and then also to the romance there was in him,” she said.
“I hope he went to paradise.”
Desertpeace 
Hans said,
November 9, 2009 at 11:24
What is this crap, has she done anything for the people of Palestine, why did she get all those millions of dollars. “I hope he went to paradise”, typical spineless donkeys leading lions, why did she not stay and try to better the lives of the people, does she even visits Palestine. Open their bank accounts let us see what they are hiding
maggie said,
November 9, 2009 at 16:27
Hans, you’re an idiot.
Mike said,
November 9, 2009 at 22:04
Maggie, you’re right!
Trustrum said,
November 10, 2009 at 05:33
Hans- you are ABSOLUTELY right. In fact it was Suha who kept Arafat away from timely medical treatment that could have saved him, and then prevented a proper autopsy to learn how Israel assassinated him. Which even now she continues to cover up. Give those millions back to Palestinians. That money was public trust- not hers.
Typical of these sharmut to whine in public, and like the Saudis- support and even provoke the exploitation and devastation of the Palestinians behind the scenes with their collaborator benefactos.
Aufzuleiden said,
November 10, 2009 at 18:01
Nice to see that as he was dying the words that were being whispered to Arafat were not those of peace but rather exhortations to war: “Get up so you can defeat your enemy [Ariel] Sharon.” It warms the heart imagining him struggling to rise from his deathbed in a vain attempt to kill one more ‘enemy’ rather than turn his failing heart towards peace, to see his people leave the ways of death that had been preoccupying their existence for the past several generations in favour of something that would enrich their lives rather than bring more death and destruction. No, we now know that the end of Yasser Arafat’s life mirrored the violence that had played such a prominent role throughout his life: even as he was passing from the world the ideology of death was being whispered into his ears, exhorting him to find the strength to avoid the inevitable death from which he would not escape.
We may learn a great deal about an individual through the things they do in life and the things they say, but many times we are told what is said ‘on the deathbed’ as though these are the most important utterances that an individual can make in their lives (assuming, I suppose, that the burden of conscience compels an individual to speak without obfuscation as they realize they are approaching the ultimate end of their lives). It seems odd, however, that in the case of Yasser Arafat there is no attempt to offer us a view of the man’s final cognizant moments – what might have he been thinking as he became aware that his meeting with his maker was imminent – in favour of offering the world the foolish words being spoken to him by his wife.
It all seems so contrived and crafted to manufacture an image for Arafat that does not exist: seeing the man as some romantic hero rather than the terrorist leader of an organization responsible for killing innocent civilians.
The Palestinian people have suffered tremendously since 1948, but answering brutality with terrorism – answering death with death – has resulted in what? Bloodshed of innocents; rivers of blood and tears flowing in the desert. By the time Arafat was in control of the PLO there was no question that their ‘responses’ were as out of proportion as the violence the IDF had been perpetrating. An eye for an eye was leaving everyone blind.
As the saying goes, one reaps what one sows.
Wie viel ist aufzuleiden!
maggie said,
November 14, 2009 at 04:20
Small potatoes considering how Israel treats the Palestinians (or anyone) who challenges them… or as in the Palestinian case… lives near them ON THEIR OWN LAND, NOT ISRAELS. So it really matters what she said to a dying man? OH C’MON! Go ahead and keep pushing it, but the world looks at Israel now like an adult views a giant spoiled child. Eventually spoiled children get their just desserts, and it isn’t what they expect.
You, Israel, are making the world hate you. No one else is doing it. You are doing it.