You need to read this account of Mahmud Darwish by his friend `Abdul-Bari `Atwan: 1) he describes his fury at the U.S. as his visa to the U.S. was delayed for four months despite the intervention of U.S. puppet, Abu Mazen; 2) he describes how he reached poverty after Oslo, when `Arafat punished him for his opposition to Oslo by cutting off his funding.
PS Notice that U.S. media accounts of Darwish ignored: 1) that he was an early communist; 2) that he was put under house arrest by the Israeli occupation government for his...POETRY.