Word: hussaini
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...HUSSAINI: No, I don't think so. The Palestinians are opposed to discrimination against any people because of their color or religion. We, the Palestinians, are Semites anyhow...
...HUSSAINI: When we talk about Palestinians returning and coexisting with Israel, I don't see why the term destroy should come into this picture. What we are talking about is changing the laws and Institutions that allow one people to dominate another, to discriminate against another. The Law of Return discriminates because it allows a Jew from the Soviet Union to return but does not allow a Palestinian to return...
...HUSSAINI: On the one hand, Dr. Perlmutter does not want Palestinians to say anything about what kind of state Israel [ought to be]. Yet on the other hand, he makes all kinds of statements about the Palestinian movement. This is a double standard. If you call on the Palestinians to lay down their guns, then Israel should also renounce force. We did not bring force into this conflict, historically. The Palestinians were a civilian population, unarmed, untrained...
...HUSSAINI: To the Palestinians, Judaism is a religion of great spiritual values. Christian and Islamic beliefs have taken so much from the spiritual values of Judaism. [But] for Judaism to be identified with a state that has an army that kills and massacres-that is a contradiction...
...HUSSAINI: I think the P.L.O. has laid down this principle in its 1973 National Council meeting, that in any territory that Israel evacuates-meaning the West Bank and Gaza-the P.L.O. will establish national authority. But that is based on a big "if," because what we see in fact is an Israeli policy of building new Jewish settlements in the occupied territories...