Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pact. It is a big step backward. I love peace. We all love peace. It is because of our love for peace that we oppose what is going on in the White House right now. This event will compound the problem of the Middle East. I expect that the Palestinian people will strengthen their resistance against the Israelis and that the Egyptian government will take an unfriendly and aggressive attitude toward the Arabs. At the same time, there will be an increase in the Arabs' unfriendly feelings toward Americans. Also, this action [signing the treaty] will hasten...
...view of a just Middle East peace. Peace will not be realized unless the Palestinian people have been returned to Palestine and Arab unity has been reestablished. That means that all foreigners must leave Palestine and return to their countries of origin. Only Palestinian Jews should stay in Palestine, as citizens of a secular state where they would live with Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Christians. Israel is a colonialist-imperialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state such as Israel. Israel is the result of an invasion, of aggression...
...P.L.O.'s conditions for peace. I have declared many times that without the Palestinian rights, without their rights to return to their homelands, without their rights for self-determination, without their rights to establish an independent state, there is no peace, no stability, no security, no settlement. My condition for peace is a just condition. I'm asking that my people, the Palestinian people, have the opportunity to live in peace in their independent state as human beings. Your President used to speak a lot about human rights, but where are his human rights when he approaches Palestinian...
...like war. I would like to return to my work, my original profession as a civil engineer. Every Palestinian would like to live in peace. But if you are pushing us into a corner with this false treaty, we haven't any other choice but to defend ourselves. [Arafat mocked the prospect of limited self-rule for a Palestinian state held out by the Camp David agreements.] Self-rule? Self-rule without any control of the land and even the water -the water for drinking? If you were in my position, would you accept it, this new slavery...
...future, the future of our children, we shall fight. We don't want to be like the red Indians, and we will not be. Even in our exodus, in the harsh and tough life of our diaspora, after we had been kicked out of our homeland, we the Palestinian people have the highest percentage of educated people in this area. So we will not be red Indians...