When the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who had made such a deep impact on developments in the Middle East for a generation, died in November 2004, Palestinians and many others were left wondering at the time whether the leader who had been declared politically dead so many times might instead now turn into a ghost who would not lie down. Hans Jaap Melissen travelled to Gaza, Nablus and Ramallah to assess the mood just after the funeral.
Report by Hans Jaap Melissen
Broadcast: November 28, 2004