September 1, 1984
The Palestinian cause is first and foremost the set of injustices that these people have suffered and continue to suffer. . . . Arafat needed only one word to describe the broken promises, the violated agreements, at the moment of the Sabra and Shatila massacres: shame, shame.
Introduction
This essay, included in French in the collection Deux régimes de fous. Textes et entretiens 1975-1995, ed. David Lapoujade, (Paris: Minuit, 2003), was omitted from the volume’s English translation, Two Regimes of Madness, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Ames Hodges and Mike Taormina (Cambridge, MA/New York: MIT Press/Semiotext(e), 2006). The essay was first published as “Grandeur de Yasser Arafat” in the Revue d’études palestiniennes 10 (1983), pp. 41-43. This translation by Timothy S. Murphy first appeared in the journal Discourse 20.3 (FaLL 1998), 30-33.
English
Gilles Deleuze, “The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat”, published in Discourse 20.3 (Fall 1998), pp. 30-33, translated by Timothy S. Murphy. See link below for download.
French
Le texte de “Grandeur de Yasser Arafat” se trouve dans Deux régimes de fous. Textes et entretiens 1975-1995 (Paris: Minuit, 2003), pp. 221-225, paru dans Revue d’études palestiniennes 10 (1983), pp. 41-43.