 The Palestinian cause was being ended and liquidated by the extremist Zionist government. And normalization was proceeding rapidly at the expense of Palestinian rights. It was a forgotten issue. The Al-Aqsa flood made it cause number one in the world. Abdel Hadi said the Palestinian-Israeli peace process decades ago had resulted in nothing. For a liberation movement, he said, there's always a price. Jane Araf, NPR News, Beirut.