Palestinians gave their national poet Mahmoud Darwish the equivalent of a state funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, attended by Palestinian dignitaries and family members who mourned the man who fought for the the Palestinian cause in words. Darwish died in Houston Texas last Saturday after undergoing heart surgery. Darwish a man whose work focussed on the plight of the Palestinian people refused to accept the Oslo Accords.08/13/08