Word: hussaini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HUSSAINI: [Only] if there is a new Israeli government or if there is a new policy that would recognize the national rights of the Palestinian people and their right to return to their country and live as equals with others...
...HUSSAINI: This myth and this phrase are so unreal. There are 3 million Israelis. They have the right to remain there and live in peace and prosperity. I am surprised that Dr. Perlmutter says self-determination for the Palestinians is not an Israeli problem. Of course...
...HUSSAINI: I will have to wait and see if the Israeli government would end its military occupation of these territories and allow the Palestinians the freedom to express their opinion and determine their destiny. We ask how long are the West Bank and Gaza going to remain under Israeli occupation. This is why Palestinians speak of liberation. When you have people under military rule, they have every right to resist. Our struggle for liberation is not against the Jews; it is to live as a free people...
...resolution that divided the country into two-one Arab state, one Jewish state. It was the Arab countries that attacked Israel, and it is the Arab countries that are responsible for the expulsion of the Palestinians. Between 1951 and 1967, most of the Palestinians that Mr. Hussaini is talking about were under Jordanian rule. I am in favor of a Palestine-Jordan solution. [But] as an Israeli who recognizes that there is a nationalist movement in Palestine, I would be willing to say the P.L.O. probably is the only group that represents real Palestinian nationalism. [Nonetheless] that does not mean...
...HUSSAINI: It is a historical inaccuracy to blame the suffering of the Palestinians on the Arab states. It is a fact that the Palestinian people belong to the lands of Palestine, the territory that was put under British rule in the early 1920s. There was fighting in Palestine, and many Palestinians left their homes as Jewish military forces were moving into these towns and villages...