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you are asking me what it is to be a [Music] Palestinian well I think that

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uh in in very simple terms it’s a question of lack of identity and unless you see this man

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finds a place an anchor he will always always be the

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stateless uh the refugee uh The Man Without an identity and who

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is searching for this right and it is a human right to be a

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Palestinian is to accept the status quo of wherever you happen to

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be without the real sense of belonging because strictly speaking you

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are operating wherever you are at the Good Will and discretion of the country

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that is accepting you wherever he is they tend somehow to look at him as a

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suspect because he does not have an identity in the sense that he does not

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have a country a home he is stateless they have come from hia and

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Jaffa from Hebron and Jerusalem first in 1948 as their land was occupied they

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fled again in’ 67 and in 70 in 76 and in 78 each time new hostilities had forced

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them to seek new shelters some have been refugees for over 30 years some were

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born as refugees but no matter where they came from or where they now live

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these people think of themselves as Palestinians first and most have but one dream to return to their homes in

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Palestine [Music]

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since World War II the Middle East has been the scene of continuous

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violence in 1947 the United Nations endorsed the creation of one Arab and

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one Jewish State out of the British mandate in Palestine under a partition plan which provided also for the

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establishment of an international regime in and around

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Jerusalem Israel was a established in 1948 but the Palestinian Arab State

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never came into being since then there have been four full-scale Wars all

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threats to World Peace territorial limits kept moving back and forth and

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between and around during times referred to as no war no peace thousands of

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people from all sides who fell victims to endless attacks and counterattacks we

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could very well indeed find a way to coexist in Palestine with an

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Israel but you see we must get guarantees that this Israel will not

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expand because ever since the existence of Israel it has

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expanded onward and they have tried to erase our

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identity as Palestinians for instance I started out to be a

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Palestinian then in 1948 I was referred to as a refugee then I was referred to as a

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Jordanian an Egyptian a Lebanese a Syrian and on the way I heard from G

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that I do not exist and now they call me a terrorist eventually you see these

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people have expanded and they have tried to erase my identity Palestine has

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always been the B ground of Empires as well as the meeting place for the

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exchange of cultures there have been waves of people that have come into it

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mostly from Arabia which is the cred land of all the Semitic peoples now

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these people have intermixed throughout history they were arabici sized the

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middle of the 7th century when the Arab Muslim invasion of Palestine took place

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and inhabited Palestine for the long course of

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history Arab nationalists do not deny the Jewish presence of Biblical times

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but they point out that this was also the land of the Canaanites and the Philistines Babylonians Persians and

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Greeks were there too at one period or another the region was under Roman occupation at the time of Christ The

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Exodus of the Israelites took place soon thereafter the fall of the Roman Empire

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cleared the way for Arab civilization to [Music] Blossom then the Muslim empire was

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succeeded by ottoman rule on the Eastern shores of the Mediterranean this rule

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was to last until World War I the 19th century witnessed tremendous

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upheavals Europe had its Industrial Revolution but the Middle East too was seeking a new identity after 500 years

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of Ottoman rule the idea of sovereignty had begun to revive and many Palestinians and other Arabs launched

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Independence movements since the Crusades three

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religions had coexisted Fairly peacefully in Palestine but by the 1890s new colonies of Jewish immigrants

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started to appear the programs the Jews had had to endure in Europe had fostered Zionism a calling for regroupment of the

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Jews in a land to be called the land of

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Israel during World War I the British seeking assistance for their war effort

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in the Middle East wooed both the Arabs and the zionists to win the latter’s

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support in 1917 they promulgated the balfor Declaration this declaration

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promised British support for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people although it

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was careful to note that nothing shall be done which may Prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing

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non-jewish communities in Palestine and the population of Palestine was over 90%

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Arab at that time when the war ended rather than becoming independent most of the Middle

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East was placed under British and French administrations under the League of Nations mandate system the League’s

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Covenant provided that such territories were heading for event ual self-determination and

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Independence for the Palestinian Arabs the struggle had become twofold they

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wanted termination of the Mandate and repeal of the balfor Declaration since the establishment of a Jewish homeland

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meant increased immigration by Jews and appropriation by them of lands the Palestinians had owned inhabited and

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cultivated for Generations the period between the two World Wars witnessed a series of

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Palestinian demonstrations protests and rebellions if the International

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Community had looked at the palestin question with Justice they would have

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recognized that here was a majority of

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Palestinians and there was a minority of Jews and that the majority of

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Palestinians had rights if not equal at least greater than the minority of the

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Jews and that ultimately the best solution for this

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was one state in which both the Arabs and the Jews would live under one

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government but there was not to be such a state in 1947 Britain placed the

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question of Palestine before the United Nations on the 29th of November a vote was taken to partition the area there

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was to be one Jewish and one Arab state for the Jews most of them scarred for

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life from years of Nazi atrocities in Europe This was cause for joyful

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celebration but to the Arabs any partition which granted 56% of the land to 32% of the population was

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unacceptable fighting and skirmishes continued on May 14th 1948 a Jewish

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State self-proclaimed itself under the name of Israel incidents such as that of the

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Jewish m M of Arabs in the village of darasin which had taken place in April had spurred an exodus of refugees

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neighboring Arab states sent troops into Palestine claiming they were acting for the sole purpose of restoring peace and

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security and establishing Law and Order in Palestine it became full-scale

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War numerous un efforts to negotiate a truce were fruitless in September 1948

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the United Nations Chief mediator count folk bernadat was shot and killed in Jerusalem by a Jewish extremist group

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only in the spring of 1949 was an Armistice reached by that time more Arab

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land had been taken Israel had already begun to expand its

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borders the main effect on the population was to create a great deal of

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panic and fear the population for the most part part was

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unarmed they were confronting a well organized and

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well-armed Invasion as a result when the events like the massacre of Daria in

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April of 1948 occurred Panic spread through the population a population

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which was in 1947 and then continuing into the spring

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of 1948 was not well organized and had no political Center to it as a result

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the principle and the main impulse of people was to run to get as far away

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from the fighting from the terror as

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possible by December 1948 half of the population of Palestine had fled the

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following year the United Nations established unra the UN relief and works Agency for Palestine refugees the

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agency’s Mand to provide registered refugees wherever they may live with food rations and

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shelter health care and basic education enlisting the collaboration of host

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Nations it was to be and still is financed from voluntary

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contributions when work got underway an estimated 500,000 people were getting unr’s help by 1978 the figure had

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increased to 1,760 th000 Palestinians registered to receive

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care in 48 the assembly had resolved that the refugees wishing to return to

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their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date or be

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duly compensated this has been reaffirmed by the United Nations every year ever since

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but these resolutions fail to be implemented because repatriation in accordance with these resolutions was

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not permitted by Israel most of our population is a poor

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population and those who have to live in camps live in misery and squalor and

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Poverty of A Sort that really is intolerable uh nevertheless since the

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late ‘ 60s the lot of the camp dweller has been improving not only by the social medical and Educational Services

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provided in the camps but also for the first time in their lives they now have a sense that by struggling uh

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politically and militarily and even intellectually they are beginning to move out of the camps there are no

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longer simply forgotten people left to rot there indefinitely

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Beirut Lebanon in a still recent past a prosperous Metropolis since the mid 7s a

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city devastated by an intractable Civil War for years affluent people lived in

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Comfort here not the Palestinians though there are an estimated 400,000 of them

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here in Lebanon they are to be found crowded in areas which do not live up even to our usual concept of a refugee

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camp in urban ghettos which seem to get worse and worse as the years go

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by this is where the huishi family lives refugees from 1948 they had resettled on

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the West Bank the 67 War brought them first to Jordan then in 70 they were

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forced to move into South Lebanon now they are here in Beirut children were born along the way the older boys Pride

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themselves on being Fighters already the girls still go to one of the

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schools for Palestinian children that unra has maintained and run since

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1950 the Palestinian people like any other people in the world had the right

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of having its own independent educational system that enables him to strengthen

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his National unity and to express his National Palestinian character yes we

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like to emphasize the role of the masses in the Palestinian struggles uh through the last uh 30 30 years and we like to

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emphasize the nature of our enemy and we like also to emphasize the difference

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between Judaism and Zionism as a political Movement we like to put in our

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uh pupils mind the humanitarian nature of our struggle and the humanarian

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nature of our social and political [Applause]

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aspirations in the early 50s the first resistance group appeared Alat in 1964

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the Palestine Liberation Organization was formed 10 years later at a summit meeting of Arab heads of state the

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rabbat conference of 1974 the PLO was recognized as sole representative of the

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Palestinian people that same year the general assembly of the United Nations accorded it similar

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recognition uh the PLO is a s representative of the Palestinian

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people uh we we have uh this uh

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organization which has different establishments in many

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fields controlling all our different uh branches executive committee our

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military forces uh our Central Council

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we have our national conference uh which represent all our

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organizations political organizations and syndicates unions

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which represent our people inside our occupied territories and outside our occupied

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territories be they Invaders tourists or refugees large bodies of foreigners are

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always resented by the local population and the Palestinians have proved to be no exception many refugee camps have

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become grudgingly accepted enclaves guarded by PLO

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soldiers now the question is that the Palestinian wherever he is he is at the mercy of others he is is always always

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sought he is always observed he is always caught he is always mistreated and this is the tragedy of

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the Palestinian today he doesn’t have a place to go [Applause]

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to we should not forget that war is part of politics and we struggle by all means

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at our disposal we struggle on all different fronts

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politically militarily diplomatically and

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socially training of the F the fighters begins at 18 but few of those who come

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here do not already have previous experience in weapons and weaponry the first operations of fat date back to

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1965 to some they are terrorists to others they are Freedom Fighters and heroes willing to put their lives on the

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line for the liberation of their Homeland a

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[Music] the songs and dances of the fat soldiers

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are also the songs and dances of the children in refugee

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camps here they are taught the additional subjects that they say unr’s

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regular schools do not offer or gloss over too quickly they want to learn more about Palestine its folklore and its

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traditions and about the importance of having a homeland of One’s Own here they acquire the discipline and

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toughening which they hope will enable them to qualify as Fighters

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someday Decades of Exile and life in camps make it difficult for Palestinians to become self- sustaining from the

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beginning many started small businesses lots of them still pedal cigarettes or run to delivery services in and around

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the camps but a lucky few have turned small Enterprises into cottage industries which as they slowly

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integrate into the local economy offer employment in turn to other Camp

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dwellers but for the individual here more than anywhere else education is the

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key basam eldest son of huishi goes to the university and also keeps a

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part-time job to contribute to the family’s income scholarships help many Palestinians to go abroad for graduate

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study programs you know for a Palestinian it’s

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all over the world the same thing whether it is in Kuwait Lebanon or anywhere else you are refused the to be

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in the community of course they do accept you as long as you live there with them but still you do not belong

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you do not have their citizenship you you do not have the same rights and automatically the same feeling would be

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whether you are in Lebanon or in Kuwait or in Saudi Arabia or anywhere

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else Edward SED again Palestinians have the highest rate

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of University graduates of any Arab Nation as

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Engineers as social scientists as economists the Palestinians are in fact now the

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intellectual and even the moral Elite of the Arab world

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unfortunately there are still too many unskilled and for them there is at best seasonal and temporary work picking

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fruit for a local landowner Lebanese or Jordanian at Harvest Time street cleaning or other menial jobs in the

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camps and for the women domestics in the home of the more

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fortunate although there is a Palestinian Workers Union to protect them from being exploited the life of

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these people remains meager and

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insecure to remedy this situation and better channel the energy and productiveness of the Palestinian people

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a series of workers cooperatives got launched in 1970 by fata it is called

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SED in Arabic SED translates as steadfastness the idea of never giving

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up the Palestinians see the seds as the productive part of a people in

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Exile the basic idea is to provide some sort of vocational training to a generation which has known nothing more

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than Camp life and to equip as many as possible of them to become financially independent both now in their diaspora

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and also tomorrow when they will have return to Palestine there are several fields of

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activity Industrial development craft and cottage Enterprises and even an

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agricultural sector under which a few Palestinians provide technical assistance in several African

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countries so far 3,000 people are employed full time in the sued workshop

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and that number is increasing steadily whether they sew cloth make embroidery for sale abroad or assemble Furniture to

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fill the needs of Camp dwellers or the requirements of Palestinian offices they are each one of them contributing to

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return to self-sufficiency a people who refuse to remain any longer the ward of the

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world the PLO provides other services as well schools and hospitals research

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centers and so forth you see this hospital is one of

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the hospital hital of the Palestine red chran society which is one of the institutions of the

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PLO uh of course our services we give to all people who need these help our plans

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are divided into two plans for disaster time and for peace time this hospital

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here is a Specialized Hospital for the cardiovascular surgery and for the pediatric surgery and for the NEOS

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surgery and daily we have in this Hospital at least two major

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operations we have big uh problems not only of the Wounded but also we take the

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responsibility of the refugees the people were under great stress especially the small kids

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children those people are homeless now and we faed many problem especially in the psychological situation of the small

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kids and of the grownup people they

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lost all what they have done since they were deported from Palestine in

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1948 all what they have built members of their families they

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have lost everything here so you have to support them we have to stay beside

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them for many the first move had been to the West Bank there they lived in camps

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but at least they were still in their own country in ‘ 67 when Israel occupied the rest of Palestine the West Bank

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camps emptied themselves in a new Mass Exodus this time across the blown up Allenby Bridge into Jordan thanks to the

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Israeli Jordanian open Bridge policy this Gateway Between Two Worlds at War remains open to this day a link for

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Palestinians in Exile and those who stayed behind Dr SED says for the first time it

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became apparent to Palestinians that if they were going to rely exclusively upon the Arab states to wage

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their struggle for them they would get nowhere and therefore Palestinians had to take their own progress towards

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self-determination in their own hands at a moment of the deepest Collective Arab

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failure the Palestinians began then to assert themselves and to take up arms to struggle towards self-determination

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in ‘ 67 when the rest of Palestine was occupied I was a soldier in the

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Jordanian

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Army the king ordered us to withdraw without fighting and so the whole of Palestine fell to Zionist

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control there had been resistance before but 67 was when the Palestinian

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Revolution really started since’ 67 we’ve had our own weapons our

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own soldiers we’ve become public 3 years later within 48 Hours

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three airliners were hijacked and forced to land in the Jordanian desert after days of negotiation the

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hostages were freed and the planes destroyed

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Palestinians had made the complacent World aware of their plight through dramatic news

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headlines that same year in Jordan violent clashes occurred between Palestinian and Jordanian troops

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[Music] many died on both sides and many

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Palestinian Fighters left for another exile to Lebanon this time and many other

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places but the spirit of resistance and determination to restore their rights was not dead what had been common scenes

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in the streets of Aman just moved to Beirut as Palestinians continued to Rally to their cause

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during the 60s Gaza was the stage for protest and sabotage but after 1970

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little remained of the unrest there however the October War had instilled a new sense of Pride to the

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Arabs on the occupied West Bank this was expressed through more and more demonstrations against both the military

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authorities and the appearance of new Jewish settlers on Arab land land the result was tightened security numerous

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arrests and for some deportation from 1967 till now the

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rebuilt Allen be Bridge has become the road to Exile for most of the 1300 people expelled by the Israelis from

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Gaza and the West Bank yeah taking from the military Governor office in Jericho

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at 12:00 noon to the bridge where they reached the half of the bridge and they

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told me that from here you can go but you can’t come back I said someday I

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will come back to my country because it’s my country we never uh thought that they will treat us after the occupation

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by the way they treated the people after the occupation uh demolishing houses

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demolishing Villages treating people the way they are treating them that will create more hatred from the Arabs that

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were the Jews that’s why they are still in the camp and they’re working in the camp

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they’re raising their kids in the camp because they know that someday we are going back for instance I can’t go back

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I want to go back not as a visit I want to go back and live in my hometown my pharmacy is

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closed I can’t open my Pharmacy my wife will go there only for one week two weeks every summer to renew the permits

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and come all my family or my tribe if we say a white family H they are living

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there I have my land my house my interest there right I’m living here I’m

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um having not a bad time but still I want to go back to my

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hometown Aman is a temporary Haven for many Palestinian Deportes their only

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alternative to Israeli prison they used to hang me from my feet

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with my upside down with my head down and they began to beat me on the on my

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feet and on my sexual organs for uh ours Israel concedes that some

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excesses were committed over the years by its occupying forces it says that disciplinary measures were taken where

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cases have been documented and denies that torture was ever a state policy but

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the UN special committee to investigate Israeli practices in the occupied territories basing itself on Witnesses

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and press reports within and outside Israel stated the indications are very

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strong that cases of torture occurred and continue to occur her my wife and my children are ready now to fight and to

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be killed in the in the in the sake of Palestine in any time and I have my son my son uh since

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two months I is is lost he’s lost this

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his uh this is picture and I don’t

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feel uh any sad about

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him this is my son since two months in liano he has lost many others have gone

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and many others will never return for these men who have never known a land they can call their own The Rebirth of

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Palestine is the cause unfortunately killings and

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hangings bullets and tanks leave indelible marks in the minds of the young proofs are easy to find in the

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Middle East these [Applause]

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days wherever their parents were killed during one of the many wars and conflicts the Palestinians have known

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these last 30 years these orphans are the wards of [Music]

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fat the memory of the parents lives on in the recollection of their sons and daughters

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I will be a girl but if my country is liberated I’ll be a doctor an engineer

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anything that my country needs me yes Edward S remarks one of the saddest

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things to see is young children for whom no alternative exists except the gun but I have a feeling that’s changing over

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the years now there are more Palestinian schools in which greater emphasis is placed on academic subjects on widening

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the educational experience of each child so that the day is not defined by

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exercises with a [Music] [Applause]

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gun there is a Palestinian dialect which is different in Arabic from let’s say Syrian or Lebanese or Egyptian there are

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Traditions there are costumes the family and Clan organizations are different

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Cuisine turns of phrase popular stories mythology and so on and so forth so that you had in Palestine essentially a

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community but nevertheless a cohesive National Community which Associated itself with the land

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I believe the present generation among the Palestinians cannot be called as

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moderate as the older Generations amongst the Palestinians that’s why I think now it’s

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the golden opportunity to have a peaceful settlement with the Israelis between the

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Palestinians and Israelis provided that the Israelis would recognize the rights of self-determination of the

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Palestinians and including the establishment of their own independent state on what remained from the

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Palestinian soil that was occupied in

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1967 going home for a short visit is the hope of most Palestinians in diaspora

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during the months when the is military authorities implement this right of family reunions thousands try to take

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advantage of

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it to get the permit is long and difficult the screenings by both sides

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meticulous but it is easier for Palestinians wishing to leave the occupied areas especially when they are

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not requesting a right of return

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once by the bridge there are further checks long hours of waiting before being called to board one of the buses

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because the Israelis process only two dozen buses each day some have to return Time After Time hoping that tomorrow

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they will get their chance on the other side of the river there will be more security body searches customs duties

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which sometimes times make it necessary to abandon gifts or purchases

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behind some do not go back by way of the bridge they are gorillas who find their

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own own way across borders their missions illustrate the conflict between what is justifiable to them and what is

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inexcusable to others this took place in malot Israel

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in 1974 following a raid at the school there by the Democratic front for the

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liberation of Palestine 21 Israeli children and four adults were killed

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that day there are differences of opinions among Palestinians regarding the extent

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to which violence is justifiable the killing of innocent

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civilians such as Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics or Travelers at lot airport brought widespread International

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condemnation you see we are against all this uh violence the p is against it you know

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it and if we have declared it many times but we have to remember

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and to look to the this case from all its views the PLO still accepts

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responsibility for raids inside

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Israel but violence continues on both sides this took place in aier southern

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Lebanon after an Israeli air raid over 100 were killed men women and children

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similar military actions have been taken over the years by Israel against Palestinian camps in other countries in

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some cases following Guerilla raids inside Israel or against Israeli interests

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[Music] elsewhere violence breeds hatred retaliation brings only further

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retaliation and ie for an eye is often paid at high interest rates in our day and

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age events of these last years have made the world painfully aware that the Palestinian people and the recog nition

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and implementation of their rights are the key to any solution in the Middle East they are there they are a fact like

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it or not no formula can be found no resolution implemented which does not take their inalienable rights into

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consideration the security Council expressing its continuing concern with

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the grave situation in the Middle East from the creation of the United Nations to this day no topic has been the

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subject of more debates and deliberation by the world body following the 1967 war the security

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Council adopted the all-important resolution 242 the Middle East which should include

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however the PLO found this resolution objectionable the United Nations security Council resolution 242 is not

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accepted by the Palestinians for the following reasons first of all it ignored the national rights of the

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Palestinians the second thing it didn’t mention about the national with the

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Palestinians and look to the matter as if it’s a conflict between the Arab states and the

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uh and Israel although the Crux of the problem in the Middle East is the

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Palestinian

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Coast Geneva December 1973 since the first session of the

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Geneva peace conference several significant developments affecting the Palestinians have taken place Place

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United Nations General Assembly resolution 3375 requests the participation of the

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PLO in all peace efforts on an equal footing with all other parties Israel

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remains opposed to this on the ground that among other things 242 calls for negotiation among states and the PLO is

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not a state and also because they have always refused to deal with groups which they see as bent on destroying

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Israel in 1974 and 75 the general assembly proclaimed its resolutions 3236

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and 3375 which respectively affirm the inalienable rights of the Palestinian

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people and recognize the PLO as its representative in the deliberations of the United

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Nations it is uh mentioned in the United Nation resolution

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3236 that the Palestinian uh have their own inable rights

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including their right for self-determination for the sovereignty

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and Independence for their re repatriation to their

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Homeland and we see to it that this settlement should take into

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consideration all these rights National rights of the

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Palestinians you United Nations New York November 13th 1974 yaser Arafat comes to address the

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general

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assembly I appeal to you further to Aid our people’s return to its Homeland from

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an involuntary Exile imposed on it by force of Arms by tyranny by

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oppression so that we can regain our property our land and thereafter live in

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our national Homeland free and Sovereign enjoying all the Privileges of

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nationhood today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom Fighter’s

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[Music] gun do not let the Olive Branch fall

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from my hand I repeat do not let the Olive Branch fall from my

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hand homelessness stateless even with without and and

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identity card we haven’t Flags we haven’t States we haven’t a home we haven’t

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anything concerning human being rights but

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accepts misery in this

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Thea but we kept very important thing our

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will and determination and for this are

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still existing we started from zero but we now are the important number

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in this area in this

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formula we are not after 10 years or 3 years or just solving a problem like

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this no we want our rights we want our land we want to go back and live in

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Palestine we are struggling to have to regain

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their our own identity this is a divine right that is given to us by

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God I think that the Palestinians they are well educated and well cultured they

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can take part in all fields of human activity I mean scientific Arts

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literature I think as a small nation we can take part [Music]

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this is my feeling and I am ready to leave everything here and go back to my

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home really everything I am ready to to start from the zero

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[Music] even do not deny the people who were

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original owners the right to go back do not deny the Palestinian per se the

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right to perform as a human being I am a human being if the world wants me

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to abide by the morality of humanity then they must treat me as a human

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being United Nations New York November 29th 1978

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we are complying today in this ceremony with one of the specific recommendations

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that the charter mandates to our organization recognition of the

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fundamental rights of one of the peoples which constitutes mankind the inalienable rights that in

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countless documents are demanded for the Palestinian people ladies and

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gentlemen today today we Comm commemorate uh for the first time the

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International Day of solidarity with the Palestinian people the general assembly in

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1974 began tackling the political aspect of the Palestinian

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question in that year the general assembly adopted resolution

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3236 which reaffirmed the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people

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including the right to self DET mination the right to National Independence and

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sovereignty and the right of the Palestinians to return to their homes and

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property the general assembly established a committee on the exercise of the inable rights of the Palestinian

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people right from the start some chose to prejudge the committee’s work and

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declared that it would not be impartial in fact in order to encourage

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the contribution of all sectors one of the first actions of the committee was to invite all member states to

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participate in its work as observers an invitation repeated in

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77 the committee in due course made it recommendations after careful and

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objective consideration and in strict Conformity with its

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mandate these recommendations were based on widely accepted un resolutions and

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the following principles one the question of Palestine

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is the heart of the Middle East problem and no solution could be envisaged without taking into account

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the rights of the Palestinian people two the realization of these

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inalienable rights would contribute to a solution of the Middle East

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crisis three the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people

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should participate on an equal footing with other parties in all conferences on the Middle East held under United

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Nations offices four the inadmissibility of the

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acquisition of territory by force and Israel’s obligation to withdraw

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completely and quickly from all territor so

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occupied the recommendations were widely supported in the security Council but

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not endorsed due to the veto of a permanent

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member however the the assembly subsequently endorsed the committee’s recommendations by 90 in favor 16

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against and 30

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exstension in its second report the committee reaffirmed their validity and the urgency of

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implementation the assembly reconfirmed its endorsement by an even larger

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vote although Israel and some other countries persisted in opposing implementation we are convinced that

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these recommendations would form the basis for a just

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peace some have pointed out that no reference is made to the right of Israel to exist as an independent

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state the answer is that this is not within the Mandate of the committee

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their worry is unfounded since at no stage was the independence of Israel questioned in as much as it is a member

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state of the

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UN I must add that Israel was created by United Nations resolution 181 of

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November 29th 1947 that same resolution made provision

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for a Palestinian state which Israel does not wish to

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recognize I am a human being if the world wants me to abide by the morality

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of humanity then they must treat me as a human being

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[Music]