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Warning that disregard for human rights is undermining the Middle East peace process, Palestinian lawyer and founder of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Raji Sourani accused both Israel and the Palestinian Authority of violating civil rights in a somber speech Sunday afternoon at the Unitarian Church in Harvard Square...
...Sourani, a 1991 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Laureate, divided his remarks between attacks on Israel--which he said enforces a "de facto apartheid" in the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank--and the Palestinian Authority. He accused the Authority of responding to Western calls for crackdowns on militant groups by suspending due process and resorting to torture of suspected criminals...
...guarantee of the Palestinians' safety was certainly a decision that came back to haunt Washington last week. The exact form in which the guarantee was extended is a matter of considerable dispute. P.L.O. Representative Jamal Sourani told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn that the P.L.O. had received the assurance "in writing from Habib." In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat asserted, "I have in hand a document" containing the guarantee; he said he had received it as a condition for agreeing to pull the P.L.O. fighters out of Beirut. In a speech in Jidda...
...send a delegation to the peace talks in Ge neva unless United Nations Resolution 242 is amended; this resolution, which has been considered the keystone to peace efforts hi the Middle East since 1967, refers to the Palestinians merely as a "refugee problem." Said the P.L.O.'s Gamal Sourani last week: "The world must understand that ours is not a refugee problem. It is a national and political problem...