(Yasser Arafat, at the UN General Assembly, 13 November, 1974) <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nWe Palestinians believe that the creation of the State of Israel was a\ngrave political error, one which has done grievous harm to the interests of all\nconcerned \u2013 the world community, the Great Powers, the Jewish people themselves\nand, of course, our own Palestinian people. But it was not merely an error, it\nwas also a crime. A crime perpetrated against the natural, fundamental and\ninalienable rights of the Palestinians. There is really no need to argue this.\nThe facts speak clearly for themselves to anyone who listens with an open mind.\nAnd it seems to me that now at last \u2013 though far too late \u2013 the reality of this\nerror and this crime is fairly well recognized and accepted throughout the\nworld, as the UN debate on Palestine in November 1974 clearly shows \u2013 except of\ncourse among those whose minds are closed to any facts or arguments which do\nnot suit the demands of political Zionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I say \u2018Political\u2019 Zionism because it is this that has caused all the\ntrouble in Palestine. With the original objective of providing a refuge for\nthose Jews genuinely in need of one, we Palestinians had no quarrel. It was\nonly our apprehension that this concept was to be distorted into a political\ndominion at our expense \u2013 an apprehension which was to be so tragically\njustified by events \u2013 that led us to oppose the Zionist colonization of our\nhomeland and the violence with which it was forced upon us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Holding as we do this view of the creation of Israel, it is entirely\nnatural that we should wish and hope that one day this interloper state will\ndisappear from the scene of the Middle East. Most of us believe that someday,\nsooner or later, Israel, as it exists today \u2013 a racist, exclusive Zionist state\n\u2013 will indeed disappear. We will rejoice when that happens, but we would prefer\nit to happen peacefully and by mutual agreement, rather than amid violence and\nrecrimination. Meanwhile we will do whatever is in our power to further that\nhappy day \u2013 a happy day not only for ourselves and our Arab brothers and for\nthe world at large, but also for the Jewish people throughout the world and,\nnot least, for the poor benighted citizens of Israel who have been so corrupted\nand misled by their Zionist rulers. Everybody will be better off when this\nracist, colonialist anachronism has gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This does not mean that we, the Palestinians of my generation, are\ndetermined to \u2018drive into the sea\u2019 the Jews now living in Israel. That is a\nmyth propagated by Israel and the world Zionist movement in order to reinvoke\nthe spectre of genocide and to excite world sympathy for Israel and world\nantipathy towards Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Yasser Arafat stated in his speech at the UN, we believe that all\nJews who are living in Israel must have the right to remain there. And in\nprinciple, we are prepared to accept that Jews living abroad who are really in\nneed of a refuge and a new home should continue to be permitted to come and\nsettle in Palestine. There was never any objection on our part to the\nimmigration of such bona fide refugees until political Zionism sought to make\nuse of them as the advance guard for the establishment of a settler state. But\nin practice we would maintain that, on grounds of justice and relative need,\nthe \u2018ingathering\u2019 of our exiles, the Palestine refugees, ought to take priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We make no apology for our opposition to the Zionist state as it exists\ntoday. We have every right and every reason to oppose it and we shall continue\nto do so, so long as it retains its present Zionist structure and denies to the\nindigenous Palestinians the rights it confers automatically on Jewish\nimmigrants from anywhere else in the world. Let there be no doubt about this.\nWhatever settlement may emerge from Geneva or elsewhere will continue to be\ncriticized and condemned by Palestinians, so long as it envisages the continued\nexistence of a racialist state in Israel open to Jews from all over the world\nbut closed to its original Arab inhabitants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, before anyone runs away with the idea that what I am saying is\nconfirmation of Israeli and Zionist allegations about the hopeless\nintransigence of the Palestinians and their determination to wreck the present\nhopes of peace in the Middle East, I would like to observe that it is by no\nmeans unheard of for a government or a country or a people to have to live with\na state of affairs of which it does not approve, while continuing to declare\nits opposition to that state of affairs and its determination to do what it can\nto change it. The world cannot expect us to approve the maintenance of the present\nZionist state of Israel. But we recognize that we may have to live with it for\nthe time being until, \u2018insha’allah\u2019, a better basis for co-existence emerges\nbetween our people and the Jewish people now settled in our land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If it is right for Western democracies to look forward to a day when\nwhite supremacy in South Africa and Rhodesia will be replaced by a form of\ndemocratic rule under which white, black and coloured people belonging to those\ncountries will live together in peace as equals, it is just as legitimate for\nus Palestinians to look forward to a day when Zionist supremacy in Israel will\nbe replaced by a democratic system in which Jews, Moslems and Christians\nbelonging to this land will live together in peace and equality. If we continue\nto proclaim this as our aim we are not sabotaging peace (as the Israeli\ngovernment would have everyone believe), any more than the British government\nand indeed the United Nations are sabotaging peace when they call for an end to\nwhite racialist rule in Rhodesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Israeli and Zionist propaganda habitually and, I believe, deliberately,\nconfuse principle and practice in this matter and try to convince the world\nthat, because all Palestinians condemn in principle the Zionist state of Israel\n(as they all undoubtedly do), therefore they are all committed to its\ndestruction by violence and force. Palestinian leaders may speak, as Yasser\nArafat did at New York, of \u2018living together in a framework of just peace\u2019 and\nnot wishing \u2018one drop of either Arab or Jewish blood to be shed\u2019. But whatever\nthey say is ignored or brushed aside. For Israeli Zionist propagandists it is\nenough that we are opposed to political Zionism and its manifestation in\nIsrael; that must mean that we are hell bent on its overthrow by violence and\nconflict and know no other way of achieving our end. But of course the one\nproposition does not necessarily follow from the other \u2013 though the non\nsequitur may not be obvious to Israelis, who have more reason than most to fear\nthe truth of the adage that \u2018those who live by the sword shall die by the sword\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To turn now from principle to practice and method, I must first deal\nwith the vexed question of Palestinian \u2018terrorism\u2019, as it is usually called in\nthe Western news media, or, as I would prefer to call it \u2018counter-terrorism\u2019\nsince it is in fact the product of and response to the state terrorism which\nIsrael has pursued towards the Palestinians since the Zionist state was first\nestablished by violence and terror in 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am myself a man of peace and I deplore violence in political affairs,\nparticularly when it involves innocent people who are not a party to the\nconflict. But by the normal and accepted standards of patriotic duty I do not\nbelieve that anyone can justly condemn Palestinians for taking up arms against\nIsraeli oppression. One may disagree with their choice of targets and may\nreject the violence of some of their actions. But in principle they have every\nbit as much justification for resorting to armed struggle against the\noppressors of their people and the occupiers of their country as had the Maquis\nin France during World War II. Indeed, Israel\u2019s prolonged cruelty towards the\nPalestinians and violation of their rights, coupled with the international\ncommunity\u2019s lamentable failure over so many years to put right the wrongs done\nto the Palestinians, afford a special justification for the Palestinians to\nresort to armed struggle. What else were they to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a practical matter, it is often said by Western observers that the\nPalestinian militants are harming their own cause by their acts of violence,\nand there is obviously some truth in this in so far as these acts may turn\nworld opinion against them and lose the Palestinians sympathy among their\nfellow-men. But against this two questions may be put. First, is there any\nevidence to show that the Palestinians have anything very positive to gain from\nthe sympathy of a world which showed itself so indifferent to their plight\nduring the years before they took up arms on any significant scale? What\npractical value has sympathy, in the face of Israeli intransigence and Zionist\nmanipulation of the news media? And second, is there not ample evidence that it\nwas only when the Palestinians resorted to armed struggle that the rest of the\nworld began taking them seriously? Seven years ago, when the Security Council\nadopted its famous Resolution 242, the only mention it made of the Palestinians\nand their rights was a reference to the need to achieve \u2018a just settlement of\nthe refugee problem\u2019. Can anyone doubt that, if the Resolution were being\nadopted today, it would make much more specific reference to the Palestinians\nnot as refugees but as a people possessing their own national rights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, having now won a hearing from world opinion (primarily, I\nbelieve, as a result of militant action), the practical question for our\nPalestinian leadership in the context of possible peace negotiations is whether\na continuation of the armed struggle against Israel is the most effective\nmethod to be pursued. In particular, if we assume that a probable outcome of\nany peace settlement is likely to be of some kind of Palestinian state on\nterritory recovered from Israel, it seems to me that a very necessary and\nuseful subject for discussion is whether we may then hope to pursue our\nunaltered, ultimate aim of a \u2018state in partnership\u2019 covering the whole area of\nIsrael\\Palestine by non-violent and evolutionary means rather than by a\ncontinuation of armed struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the outset, let me admit at once that, even if such a strategy were\nadopted, it might well not be possible to rule out entirely continued sporadic\nacts of violence by individuals driven to desperation by continued injustice on\nthe part of Israel under Zionist leadership. I am afraid that this is the\npenalty which Israel and the Israelis must be prepared to put up with for\nhaving taken another people\u2019s birth-right and having imposed their state on\nanother people\u2019s ancestral land. But the possibility, even the likelihood, of\noccasional acts of violence by individuals ought not, I suggest, to discourage\nus from trying to follow a non-violent evolutionary Palestinian approach to a\ntolerable form of co-existence between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs, following\non the establishment of a limited or partial peace settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Basically, the question for the Palestinians is whether they can afford\nto pursue a wait-and-see policy in the expectation that, sooner or later, the\nZionist structure of Israel is bound to disintegrate and give way to some more\npermanent and more acceptable form of co-existence. This is a speculative field\nof discussion and no one can be dogmatic about how the future may develop. But\nlet me outline a possible projection of the future if a Palestinian state were\nestablished on a part of the Palestinian homeland and if the Palestinian\nleadership then decided to pursue an evolutionary strategy towards its ultimate\ngoal of \u2018a state in partnership\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our first task would then be to secure a massive injection of external\naid for the economic and social development of the Palestinian state with a\nview to putting it, in time, on an equal footing with Israel in terms of\nindustrial, technological and educational progress. I have no doubt that ample\nfunds for an intensive programme of development would be readily forthcoming\nfrom the Arab world and also, I would hope, from the international community at\nlarge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An essential aspect of this programme of development would be the\ncreation of employment opportunities within the Palestine state with a view to\nmaximizing its capacity to support the population. For our second task would be\nto promote the progressive \u2018ingathering\u2019 of the Palestinian exiles now living\nin Diaspora and their rehabilitation on their own soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thirdly, we would aim to open and maintain a continuous and developing dialogue<\/a> with any elements within Israel who were prepared to meet and talk with Palestinians regarding the form of a mutually acceptable co-existence which might in time be developed between the two peoples living in the country to which they both lay claim. We have our own ideas on this subject of course, but we would approach the dialogue with open minds, ready to listen to what Israelis have to suggest as well as to put forward our own suggestions.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTo promote confidence and a frank and realistic exchange of ideas,\nconsideration could be given to the maintenance of open frontiers between\nIsrael and the Palestinian state and to permitting, even encouraging, a mutual\ninterpenetration of commerce, industry and cultural activities. Within\nreasonable limits and having regard to the need to provide for the ingathering\nof the exiled Palestinians, one need not even exclude the idea of allowing\nIsraeli Jews to live in the Palestinian state (not, of course, in paramilitary\nsettlements, like the existing ‘Nahals’, but as peaceful private individuals\nprepared to live in harmony with their neighbours), provided they accepted\nPalestinian citizenship and provided a corresponding concession were made to\nenable Palestinians to go and live in Israel. In the Middle East of today,\nthese ideas may sound like a dream. But this is the Palestine of tomorrow which\nthe Palestinians dream of, as Yasser Arafat said at the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of this will take time and must depend on the maintenance of\neffective security for the infant Palestinian state. This is a real problem. We\nhave heard so much in the past of Israel\u2019s need for security, but to us\nPalestinians and to other Arabs living in the countries adjacent to Israel this\nseems like putting the boot on the wrong foot. We believe, on the basis of our\nexperience over the past twenty-seven years, that we are more in need of\nprotection against Israel than Israel is of protection against Arabs. I know\nthat Western opinion has difficulty in believing this, but the truth is \u2013 and\nthis is attested to by international peace-keepers like General E.L.M. Burns\nand General Carl von Horn, as well as by Israelis themselves \u2013 that it has\nsuited the plans of Israel\u2019s leaders in the past to have conditions of\ninstability prevailing on her borders so that these could be exploited from\ntime to time to provide pretexts for renewed war and renewed opportunities of\nexpansion. If a limited settlement is to survive and gain time for the two peoples\nto learn to live together at peace and in mutual tolerance, the first necessity\nis to provide the most cast-iron safeguards possible against a Ben-Gurion or a\nMoshe Dayan or an Arik [Ariel] Sharon contriving in future to manufacture a new\ncrisis and a new conflict to upset the settlement if peace seems to be working\nto the disadvantage of Zionism in Israel. That will be the real risk once a\nsettlement is reached. For our part, we Palestinians would be prepared to\naccept, and indeed press for, the most stringent and effective international\nsafeguards provided they were directed not less at Israel than at the new\nPalestinian state and Israel\u2019s other Arab neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It will not be easy \u2013 indeed I would say it is virtually impossible \u2013\nfor Zionist Israel, penned back within the 1967 borders and shorn of its\ndynamic expansionism, to live in peace with its neighbours and still to\nsurvive. Once those conditions have been established, either Israel will have\nto burst out of them and resume its aggressive role or it will have to change\ninternally and shed its Zionist character. I hope the latter will take place\nand that is why I have placed such stress on the need for safeguards against\nrenewed aggression and expansionism by Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consider what is likely to happen within Israel if a settlement emerges\nin Geneva which includes the establishment of a Palestinian state and which can\nbe stabilized, by the introduction of really effective safeguards against\nfuture breaches of the peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Up to now, the momentum of Zionism has been maintained by the fear of\ninsecurity, by anti-Semitism (real or alleged), by threats of genocide and\nextermination and so on. Once stability and peace are ensured, the momentum\nwill be lost and the whole idea of political Zionism will lose much of its\nappeal both for Jews living in Israel and for their supporters outside. In\nthese circumstances there is bound to be a falling-off in the massive flow of\nexternal aid into Israel. Even with this aid, Israel has not found it easy to\nsurvive and has had constantly to importune its patient supporters for more.\nWithout it, Israel is certainly not viable and would be quite unable to support\nthe highly artificial level of economic activity which it has had in the past.\nAs before the 1967 war, unemployment and severe balance-of-payments problems\nare likely to coincide. The level of taxation, already extremely burdensome,\nwill have to be raised even higher. Again as before 1967, it is likely that the\nrate of emigration will sharply increase and more than offset any new\nimmigration. (The Israeli authorities publish no figures for emigration from\nIsrael, but reliable sources indicate that it is already almost as large as\ntoday\u2019s much reduced level of immigration.) Meanwhile, as a necessary part of\nthe settlement, Israel will have had to withdraw from her 1967 conquests and to\naccept back at least a substantial number of the Palestinian inhabitants\nuprooted in 1947 and 1948. This will mark the end of an era for the Israelis,\nthe end of a heady, intoxicating adventure in which their leaders have taught\nthem to expect continuous success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Already a growing number of Israelis are alive to the need for a new and\nmore constructive attitude towards the Palestinians; they are aware that,\nwithout it, the sands are beginning to run out for them. As a result a new wind\nis blowing within Israel, a wind of truth and disillusionment. The conjunction\nof all these factors will drive all sensible, thoughtful people within Israel\nto re-appraise their country\u2019s future and its capacity to survive as an\nexclusive Zionist enclave \u2013 or ‘ghetto\u2019 \u2012\nin the Arab world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, also the Palestinians will be sitting on the borders of\nIsrael in our own Palestinian state with its embassies in Washington and\nLondon, Paris and Moscow, and its representatives seated (as they should have\nbeen long ago) in the United Nations. With the rising power of the Arab world\nbehind us, we shall be watching and waiting, developing our human and material\nresources, gathering strength and drawing in our dispersed people with all\ntheir rich talents of industry, intellect and adaptability. And we shall be\noffering to anyone who cares to listen in Israel the chance to sit down and\ntalk with us like sensible human beings about our future, on the basis not of\nconflict but of peaceful and mutually advantageous coexistence. We hope that it\nwill be possible before long to work out a form of coexistence which will\nenable the two peoples to live together within a reunited Palestine, while\nmaintaining through cantonal arrangements and a constitutional division of\nlegislative and administrative powers the distinctive character of each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not in our lifetime? Perhaps \u2013 though once the process of change begins\nwithin Israel it may proceed faster than anyone thinks. But in any case we\nPalestinians can afford to wait. We have learned to be patient through many\npainful years. Time, as well as justice, is on our side. And perhaps power\nalso, in the fullness of time. One day men will be reading in their history\nbooks about the episode of Zionist Israel and looking back on it, will see that\nit was, after all, only a passing aberration in the course of history in the\nMiddle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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