I was about to take the elevator at the American University Hospital in Beirut yesterday, when a group of five men surrounded me and one of them said that they are fans and would like to meet me. He added that they are from the Palestinian Embassy in Beirut. I shook hands with all of them and they said that they appreciated my stance on Palestine. After I left them, it hit me: these are the from the Dahlan-Fayyad-Abbas embassy, and Fath leader, Khalid `Arif, was one of them. I went upstairs only to come face-to-face with Walid Jumblat.