11.   But since his death the following day, he has been celebrated in Egypt as the first in a new line of Arab martyrs to the Palestinian cause.

12.   But the man who has symbolized and led the Palestinian cause for three decades has largely ignored it.

13.   But the Palestinian cause, like that of the Irish Republican Army and the African National Congress, has always been more about nationhood than nihilism.

14.   But this time he has really hurt the Palestinian cause, and Palestinians know it.

15.   For decades they have used the Palestinian cause to buttress their own legitimacy or to deflect attention from their own failures.

16.   He also repeated calls for an end to attacks on Israeli civilians, saying they hurt the Palestinian cause.

17.   He had been teaching at Columbia for four years when, for the first time, he found himself publicly taking up the Palestinian cause.

18.   He could simulate authority, make or break deals with the Israelis, but he could not contain the iconoclast elements of the Palestinian cause.

19.   He is a prolific author and arguably the most eloquent spokesman for the Palestinian cause in the West.

20.   He said suicide bombings and mortar attacks were wrong because they undermined the Palestinian cause by providing a pretext for Israeli military operations.