Word: ashrawi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fifty years ago, the course of history was distorted...in order to evict an ancient nation," Ashrawi said. "It was the beginning of one of the most shameful chapters in history...
...Somehow the world has never come to recognize our existence," Ashrawi said...
...Everybody watched the handshake on the White House lawn," said Ashrawi--referring to the 1993 meeting between Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and the late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin--"and they assumed there was peace...
...Ashrawi said that while the Palestinian Authority favors reconciliation, the pro-peace contingent in Israel lies outside the current regime...
...Ashrawi drew an ovation and loud applause fromPalestinians and Palestinian sympathizers in theaudience when she raised the possibility of thedeclaration of a "non-sectarian, secular,democratic Palestinian state" in the future...