Hanan Ashrawi: Palestinians Won’t Emigrate or Evaporate

[Scurrilous]

http://palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=20031207161621872

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"In the space of one August week Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, visiting Southern California, managed to deliver three major speeches, address 10 organizations and meet with the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times. Throughout her whirlwind tour, the articulate scholar reinvigorated California audiences whose spirits have been dampened by news of three years of unbridled Israeli assassinations, incursions, house demolitions and curfews.

Among her recurrent themes were the necessity to end Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, multinational intervention, Palestinian elections, release of political prisoners, a just solution to the refugee problem and dismantlement of the Apartheid Wall."

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"Turning to the devastation wreaked by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, she stated: "For the past three years, we have been in a fatal embrace trying to inflict as much damage as possible on each other. Power is in the hands of the Israelis and it is suicidal for Palestinians to fight the overwhelming occupation by military means.

"We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier," Ashrawi stated, "while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims. "The Israeli concept that security is its exclusive right," she went on, "somehow generates the U.S.-enforced notion that the Palestinians are obligated to deliver security to the Israelis while Israel delivers death and destruction with impunity to the Palestinians."

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"Some misguided Israelis believe that if they make life unbearable for us, we'll leave. No Palestinian is ready to go into exile or commit collective suicide," she said to a standing ovation.
"We are here to stay," she vowed."

[stopthegop]

1. unbridled Israeli assassinations, incursions, house demolitions and curfew

good thing there were no bombing of buses or school kids by Palestinians...that might indicate the Palestinians were are fault for something...can't have that

[bluesoul]

2. Lately only innocent

Palestinians have been killed. When was the last time there was a suicide bombing? In the mean time if Palestinians suffer because of the wall, if their land is occupied, or they're killed everything is ok in the minds of some people...

[drdon326]

3. Talk about tunnel vision...

"that might indicate the Palestinians were are fault for something."

I guess you missed all those suicide bombings ,intafada i and 2,
korine-a, etc.

must be nice to ignore reality.

[stopthegop]

4. actually, I was being sarcastic...

meant to say the Palestinians (leadership) have blood on their hands

[drdon326]

5. Then I'm an idiot !!!

my apologies

[Forkboy]

7. See...we can agree on things

:evilgrin:

Don't worry,if I ever set myself up like that I'll await your revenge :D

[drdon326]

8. I give you an opening like that..

and thats the best you can do?? :shrug:

[Forkboy]

9. Hey,it wasn't that bad

I could have done much better but was trying to keep it a freindly jab.Anything "better" would be deleted probably.

I was honestly just joking with you Don.

[Forkboy]

6. Well,there goes someone's plans for them