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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ0gmD_iKEg&amp;feature=related">YouTube &#8211; Yasser Arafat &#8211; Hands of Thyme and Stone</a>.</p>
<p>For two hands, of stone and of thyme<br />
I dedicate this song.. For Ahmad, forgotten between two butterflies<br />
The clouds are gone and have left me homeless, and<br />
The mountains have flung their mantles and concealed me</p>
<p>Music: Marcel Khalife<br />
Lyrics: Mahmoud Darwish<br />
Album: Ahmad Al Arabi</p>
<p>&#8220;I  come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter&#8217;s gun  in the other. Do not let the green branch fall from my hand.. Do not  let the green branch fall from my hand..&#8221; (Speech at the United Nations  General Assembly, November 13, 1974)</p>
<p>Yasser  Arafat<br />
(Jerusalem 04.08.1929 &#8211; Paris 11.11.2004)</p>
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