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Common terms and phrasesAbu Farid achieve activists activities Ahmad April Aqil Arab community Arafat army Bank and Gaza Beita Birzeit University campaign coalition Communique confrontation continue curfew demonstrations detainees enemy escalating establishment Fatah forces Gaza Strip groups Ha'aretz Hamas heroic homeland independent Palestinian intifada Islamic Israel Israeli occupation issue Jabalya Jerusalem Jewish Jews Jihad Jordan killed Knesset Labor land leaders Lebanon liberation Likud live Mapam March martyrs masses Middle East Middle East Report militant military Moh'd Muslim Nablus national rights nationalist negotiations November occupied territories organizations Palestine National Council Palestinian Arab Palestinian national participation Party peace movement people's percent political popular committees prison protest Rabin Ramallah RC/GAZA resistance resolutions response role Salfit self-determination settlement settlers solidarity stones streets strike struggle tinian tion Tulkarm two-state Unified Leadership Unified National Leadership United uprising uprising's villages West Bank women workers Yesh Gvul Zionist Popular passagesPage 256 - Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return... Page 399 - ... have fought the fight of the camps, of dispersion, of exile, from those who have borne the standard of freedom, our children, our aged, our youth, our prisoners, detainees and wounded, all those whose ties to our sacred soil are confirmed in camp, village and town. We render special tribute to that brave Palestinian woman, guardian of sustenance and life, keeper of our people's perennial flame. Page 409 - ... Palestinian people. The Council charges the Executive Committee with the task of completing the formation of the Committee for the Perpetuation of the Memory of the Martyr-Symbol Abu Jihad, which shall initiate its work immediately upon the adjournment of the Council. The Council sends its greetings to the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, and to the fraternal and friendly international and non-governmental institutions and organizations,... Page 254 - As for the substance of the matter, we are still convinced that if there is to be real peace in the Middle East, the Israeli occupation of all Arab territories captured in 1967 must be ended. The inalienable rights of the Arab people of Palestine must be secured, up to and including the establishment of their own state. It is essential to ensure the security and sovereignty of all the states of the region, including those of Israel. Page 409 - Communists reiterate their solidarity with the struggle of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America for independence and... Page 399 - God, who possessest the kingdom ; thou givest the kingdom unto whom thou wilt, and thou takest away the kingdom from whom thou wilt : Thou exaltest whom thou wilt, and thou humblest whom thou wilt. Page 398 - It further announces itself to be a peace-loving State, in adherence to the principles of peaceful co-existence. It will join with all states and peoples in order to assure a permanent peace based upon justice and the respect of rights so that humanity's potential for wellbeing may be assured, an earnest competition for excellence be maintained, and in which confidence in the future will eliminate fear for those who are just and for whom justice is the only recourse. In the context of its struggle... Page 396 - Arab territories by Israeli forces, the willed dispossession and expulsion from their ancestral homes of the majority of Palestine's civilian inhabitants, was achieved by organized terror, those Palestinians who remained, as a vestige subjugated in its homeland, were persecuted and forced to endure the destruction of their national life. Thus were principles of international legitimacy violated. Thus were the Charter of the United Nations and its Resolutions disfigured, for they had recognized the... References to this bookFrom other books
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