Palestine, 20 years of independence postponed By: Ambassador Suhail Hani Daher Akel
The right memory assists all oppressed people. This right of the Palestinian people, who suffered injustice, degradation and humiliation of the occupying power.
the Palestinian people in 1987 launched the Intifada against Israeli occupation and colonialism. This national action led by President Yasser Arafat and the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine, PLO, allowed the world to realize the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people and led to the Palestinian National Council (parliament in exile), during the session of Jerusalem and the Martyrs, from Algeria to the zero hour, a minute November 15, 1988, to proclaim the Declaration of Independence of the State of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital "in the voice of martyred President Yasser Arafat.
United Nations adopted the proclamation on December 15, 1988, in its resolution 43/177: "... Recalling its resolution 181 (II) of November 29, 1947, in which, inter alia, called for the creation of an Arab state y un Estado judío en Palestina... Consciente de la proclamación del Estado de Palestina por el Consejo Nacional de Palestina en línea con la resolución de la Asamblea General 181 (II) y en el ejercicio de los derechos inalienables del pueblo palestino...Afirmando la necesidad urgente de lograr una solución justa y amplia en el Oriente Medio que, entre otras cosas, prevé la coexistencia pacífica de todos los Estados de la región”.
Con impunidad. Israel la rechazó y mantuvo su política de puño de hierro en contra de la población civil y el liderazgo palestino. La resolución de la ONU quedó convertida en tina sobre papel.
La legitimidad de the ancient Palestinian independence, is before the UN partition in 1947 and the creation of Israel in 1948. In Article 22 of the League of Nations in 1919 and the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923 recognized, among Arab nations, the Palestinian right to independence and sovereignty.
can not ignore the tsunami on the Palestinian people from Israel's unilateral creation 60 years ago and the 1967 occupation. Up to the current tragedy, surrounded by walls of apartheid, which stifle their geography settlements, destruction of their homes and massive crimes.
spent 20 years and the world remains indifferent to the legitimate independent State of Palestine and its capital Jerusalem.
Following is the text of the Declaration of Independence:
PNC
-PLO Declaration of Independence of the State of Palestine
November 15, 1988 - 20th Anniversary
In God's name
Merciful Palestine, the land of the three monotheistic religions, is the place where the Palestinian Arab people was born, where it grew, developed and excelled. The Palestinian people was never separated from their land, nor were decreased comprehensive ties with Palestine. So by this the Palestinian People said for itself an everlasting union, its land and its history.
With determination through history, the Palestinian Arab people forged its national identity, reaching levels never imagined in his defense against invasion and foreign projects, which intervened to deprive these people of their political independence. However immortal union between Palestine and its people will ensure the land its character and the people their national peculiarity.
Nourished by different civilizations and cultures series inspired by a heritage rich in variety and kind, the Palestinian Arab people added to its stature by consolidating unity among themselves and land assets. The call came from the Temple, the Church and the Mosque saying worship the Creator, practicing compassion and peace was indeed the message of Palestine. And for generation after generation, the Palestinian Arab people has given unwavering to the valiant battle for liberation and homeland. For what one has meant the chain of our people's rebellions but the heroic corporealization our will for national independence? In this way the people have sustained their fight to stay and prevail.
During the course the course of modern times, when a new order was declared with norms and values \u200b\u200bfair for all the Palestinian Arab people was excluded from that fate belongs to all peoples by a hostile formation of local and foreign powers. Once again proved that justice alone and unaided was insufficient to lead to world history by the preferred path.
And it was the Palestinian Arab people, already wounded in body, who was subjected to another type of occupation over which floated the false slogan: "Palestine is a land without people." While this notion was foisted upon some in different parts of the world, in Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations (1919) and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), the community of nations recognized that all territories Arabs, including Palestine, formerly Ottoman provinces, were to receive their freedom as independent nations.
Despite the historical injustice suffered by the Palestinian Arab people resulting in their dispersion and deprivation of their right to self-determination, then the adoption of resolution 181 (1947) General Assembly United Nations, which split Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, is the same resolution that provides the Palestinian Arab people the conditions of international legitimacy by assuring the right to sovereignty and national independence.
Through various stages, it was complying with the occupation of Palestine and parts of other Arab territories by Israeli forces. The purpose of dispossessing and expelling most of the Palestinian civilian population from their ancestral lands was achieved by organized terrorism. Those Palestinians who managed to stay on their land suffered oppression in their own homeland, were persecuted and forced to witness the destruction of their national life.
So were violated principles of international legitimacy. So the resolutions were defaced and the United Nations Charter, as they had already recognized the national rights of the Palestinian Arab people, including the right of return, the right to independence, sovereignty over territory and homeland.
inside and outside Palestine, in exile distant and near, the Palestinian Arab people never faltered and never abandoned his belief in their right of return and independence. Occupation, massacres and dispersion achieved no suppress the Palestinian consciousness of identity politics, while the Palestinians went forward with his destiny, unshakeable and unbeatable. In the long years of struggle growing political identity emerged further consolidated and Palestine confirmed. And the common formed Palestinian national will for itself a political body, the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine, PLO, their sole and legitimate representative, recognized by the entire world community, as well as by regional and international institutions. Predicated upon the rock of the conviction of the Palestinian Arab people in their inalienable rights and property of consensus on the Arab and international legitimacy, the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine-PLO led the campaigns of its great people, shaping their efforts towards united and powerful purpose, one and indivisible in the triumphs as well as over the fences and suffered massacres within and outside the country. And so it was the Palestinian Resistance qualified and taken to the summit of the Arab world knowledge, while the struggle of the Palestinian Arab people achieved a paramount importance among the various liberation movements in the world.
The massive national uprising, the intifada, now intensifying its power and cumulative approach to the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as the unflinching resistance in refugee camps outside the homeland, have amplified the level of awareness on the right and the truth Palestinian domains reaching even higher compression and news. Now at last the curtain falls on the time of hardship and deception. The intifada has set siege to the mentality of official Israel, which long has relied exclusively upon myth and terror to dent Palestinian existence.
As a result of the Intifada and because of its revolutionary irreversible impulse history of Palestine has reached this critical juncture.
So the Palestinian Arab people definitively reaffirmed their inalienable rights in the land of his heritage:
"Today, by virtue of natural rights and the exercise of those rights, legal and historical rights and sacrifice of successive generations who were provided for the sake of freedom and independence of their homeland.
"According to the resolutions adopted by the Arab Summit Conference and relying on the authority bestowed by international legitimacy embodied in the resolutions of the Organization of the United Nations since 1947.
And exercising the right of the Palestinian Arab people to self-determination, political independence, political independence and sovereignty over its territory.
-The Palestinian National Council in the name of God and the name of the Palestinian Arab people, proclaims the establishment of the State of Palestine on our Palestinian territory with its capital in Jerusalem (Al Quds Al Sharif).
The State of Palestine is the state of Palestinians wherever they found. The state is yours to be enjoyed within the national cultural identity and collective, is it yours to build complete equality of rights. It will be safeguarded their political and religious and human dignity through a democratic parliamentary system of government based on freedom to form parties. The rights of minorities are respected by most minorities also respect the decisions of the majority. The government will be based on principles of social justice, equality and non-discrimination in public rights-for men or women, on grounds of race, religion, color or sex, under the aegis a constitution that ensures the realm of law and an independent judiciary. So these principles do not allow deviations from the old spiritual and civilizational heritage of tolerance and religious coexistence.
The State of Palestine is an Arab state, an integral and indivisible Arab nation, one with that nation in heritage and civilization, she is also close to one in their quest for liberation, progress , democracy and unity. The State of Palestine affirms its obligation to abide by the Charter of the League of Arab States. The State of Palestine calls upon Arab compatriots to help consolidate and enhance the emergence of our State to reality, to mobilize potential and intensify efforts with the goal of ending Israeli occupation wing.
The State of Palestine proclaims its commitment towards the principles and purposes of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Also proclaims its commitment to the principles and policies of the Movement of Non-Aligned Movement.
also announced to be a peace-loving state, adhered to the principles of coexistence in peace. Close ranks with all States and peoples in order to ensure a permanent peace based on justice and respect for the rights of others for the potential for the welfare of mankind is assured, in order to establish and maintain a search for excellence, in which the faith in the future will eliminate fear in those who are just and for whom justice is the only recourse.
In the context of their struggle for peace in the land of love and peace, the State of Palestine to the United Nations calls asking to arrogate a special responsibility towards the Palestinian Arab people and their homeland. It calls on all states and people who love peace and freedom are asking him or her in achieving its objectives, provide security, alleviate the tragedy of his people, and help end Israel's occupation of the territories Palestinians.
The State of Palestine declares he believes in solving regional and international conflicts through peaceful means according to the letter and the resolutions of the United Nations. Without harming their natural right to defend its political independence or territorial integrity, and therefore rejects the threat or use of force, violence and terrorism against its political independence or territorial integrity, as also rejects their use against the territorial integrity of other States.
So on this day different from all others, November 15, 1988, while standing on the threshold of a new dawn, we humbly bow our heads in honor of the sacred spirits of our fallen ones, Palestinian and Arab, to the purity of those who sacrificed themselves for the homeland our sky lighting up and giving life to our land. Our hearts are lifted and irradiated by the light of sacred intifada, from those who have resisted and fought in the battles of the camps in the diaspora, exile, those who have raised the banner of liberation from our childhood , our elderly, our youth, our wounded, our prisoners and detainees, those who confirmed their ties to our sacred land in the camps, villages and cities. We express a special tribute to our brave Palestinian women, they are the ones that keep and sustain life, they are the ones who keep the eternal flame of our people. We express our oath to the souls of our martyrs, to all of our Palestinian Arab people, all free and honorable peoples in all parts: We pledge that our struggle will continue until ending the occupation and to strengthen the foundation of our sovereignty and independence.
Therefore, we call our great people to rally around the flag of Palestine, to defend and care for you here is forever a symbol of our freedom and dignity in this country, que es la Patria de los libres, por ahora y por siempre.
(frase del Corán)
Fin
English
Palestine, 20 years of independence postponed
By: Ambassador Suhail Hani Daher Akel
All the oppressed peoples have the right to the memory. The Palestinian people, who suffers the injustice, the degradation and the humiliation of the occupant power.
In 1987, the Palestinian People launched the Intifada against the occupation and the israeli prepotency. This national action was led for the President Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization-PLO, and permited the world to take conscience of the Palestinian People struggle for the liberation and gave a place to the Palestine National Council (Parliament in the exile), in the Jerusalem and the Martyrs session, from Algeria, at zero hour and one minute, on November 15th, 1988, to proclaim the “State of Palestine Independence Declaration with Jerusalem as its Capital”, in voice of president martyr Yasser Arafat.
United Nations the 15th December of 1988 in their resolution 43/177 adopted the proclamation, considering: “Recalling its resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947, in which, inter alia, it called for the establishment of an Arab State and a Jewish State in Palestine… Aware of the proclamation of the State of Palestine by the Palestine National Council in line with General Assembly resolution 181 (II) and in exercise of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people… Affirming the urgent need to achieve a just and comprehensive settlement in the Middle East which, inter alia, provides for peaceful coexistence for all States in the region”.
With impunity. Israel refused it, and kept its iron fist policy against the civil population and the Palestinian Leadership. The UN resolution was converted into ink on paper.
The legitimacy of the millenarian Palestine to its independence is before the partition by the UN in 1947 and the unilateral creation of Israel in 1948. In Article 22 of the Nations Society in 1919 and the Laussane Treaty in 1923, recognized the right Palestine, between Arab nations recognized and its right to independence and sovereignty.
It can not be ignored the tsunami imposed to the Palestinian people since the creation of Israel, 60 years ago, neither the occupation of 1967. Up to the current tragedy, surrounded by apartheid walls, settlements which asphyxiate their geography, destruction of their homes and massive crimes.
They spent 20 years and the world remains indifferent to the legitimate independence of the State of Palestine and Jerusalem its capital.
Below the text of the Declaration of Independence:
Palestinian National Council - PLO
State of Palestine Independence Declaration
November 15th, 1988 - 20th Anniversary
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Palestine, the Land of the three monotheistic faiths, is where the Palestinian Arab people was born, on which it grew, developed and excelled. The Palestinian people was never separated from or diminished in its integral bonds with Palestine. Thus the Palestinian Arab people ensured for itself an everlasting union between itself, its land and its history.
Resolute throughout that history, the Palestinian Arab people forged its national identity, rising even to unimagined levels in its defense, as invasion, the design of others, and the appeal special to Palestine's ancient and luminous place on that eminence where powers and civilizations are joined ... All this intervened thereby to deprive the people of its political independence. Yet the undying connection between Palestine and its people, secured for the Land its character, and for the people its national genius.
Nourished by an unfolding series of civilizations and cultures, inspired by a heritage rich in variety and kind, the Palestinian Arab people added to its stature by consolidating a union between itself and its patrimonial Land. The call went out from Temple, Church and Mosque that to praise the Creator, to celebrate compassion and peace was indeed the message of Palestine. And in generation after generation, the Palestinian Arab people gave of itself unsparingly in the valiant battle for liberation and homeland. For what has been the unbroken chain of our people's rebellions but the heroic embodiment of our will for national independence? And so the people was sustained in the struggle to stay and to prevail.
When in the course of modem times a new order of values was declared with norms and values fair for all, it was the Palestinian Arab people that had been excluded from the destiny of all other peoples by a hostile array of local and foreign powers. Yet again had unaided justice been revealed as insufficient to drive the world's history along its preferred course.
And it was the Palestinian people, already wounded in its body, that was submitted to yet another type of occupation over which floated the falsehood that "Palestine was a land without people." This notion was foisted upon some in the world, whereas in Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations (1919) and in the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), the community of nations had recognized that all the Arab territories, including Palestine, of the formerly Ottoman provinces, were to have granted to them their freedom as provisionally independent nations.
Despite the historical injustice inflicted on the Palestinian Arab people resulting in their dispersion and depriving them of their right to self-determination, following upon UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (1947), which partitioned Palestine into two states, one Arab, one Jewish, yet it is this resolution that still provides those conditions of international legitimacy that ensure the right of the Palestinian Arab people to sovereignty. By stages, the occupation of Palestine and parts of other Arab territories by Israeli forces, the willed dispossession and expulsion from their ancestral homes of the majority of Palestine's civilian inhabitants was achieved by organised terror; those Palestinians who remained, as a vestige subjugated in its homeland, were persecuted and forced to endure the destruction of their national life.
Thus were principles of international legitimacy violated. Thus were the Charter of the United Nations and its resolutions disfigured, for they had recognised the Palestinian Arab people's national rights, including the right of Return, the right to independence, the right to sovereignty over territory and homeland.
In Palestine and on its perimeters, in exile distant and near, the Palestinian Arab people never faltered and never abandoned its conviction in its right of Return and independence. Occupation, massacres and dispersion achieved no gain in the unabated Palestinian consciousness of self and political identity, as Palestinians went forward with their destiny, undeterred and unbowed. And from out of the long years of trial in ever mounting struggle, the Palestinian political identity emerged further consolidated and confirmed. And the collective Palestinian national will forged for itself a political embodiment, the Palestine Liberation Organization, its sole, legitimate representative recognized by the world community as a whole, as well as by related regional and international institutions. Standing on the very rock of conviction in the Palestinian people's inalienable rights, and on the ground of Arab national consensus, and of international legitimacy, the PLO led the campaigns of its great people, mounded into unity and powerful resolve, one and indivisible in its triumphs, even as it suffered massacres and confinement within and without its home. And so Palestinian resistance was clarified and raised into the forefront of Arab and world awareness, as the struggle of the Palestinian Arab people achieved unique prominence among the world's liberation movements in the modem era.
The massive national uprising, the Intifada, now intensifying in cumulative scope and power on occupied Palestinian territories, as well as the unflinching resistance of the refugee camps outside the homeland, have elevated awareness of the Palestinian truth and right into still higher realms of comprehension and actuality. Now at last the curtain has been dropped around a whole epoch of prevarication and negation. The Intifada has set siege to the mind of official Israel, which has for too long relied exclusively upon myth and terror to deny Palestinian existence altogether. Because of the Intifada and its revolutionary irreversible impulse, the history of Palestine has therefore arrived at a decisive juncture.
Whereas the Palestinian people reaffirms most definitively its inalienable rights in the Land of its patrimony:
Now by virtue of natural, historical and legal rights, and the sacrifices of successive generations who gave of themselves in defense of the freedom and independence of their homeland. In pursuance of Resolutions adopted by Arab Summit Conferences and relying on the authority bestowed by international legitimacy as embodied in the resolutions of the United Nations Organization since 1947; And in exercise by the Palestinian Arab people of its rights to self- determination, political independence, and sovereignty over its territory;
The Palestine National Council, in the name of God, and in the name of the Palestinian Arab people; hereby proclaims the establishment of the State of Palestine on our Palestinian territory with its capital Holy Jerusalem (A l-Quds Ash-Sharif).
The State of Palestine is the state of Palestinians wherever they may be. The state is for them to enjoy in it their collective national and cultural identity, theirs to pursue in it a complete equality of rights. In it will be safeguarded their political and religious convictions and their human dignity by means of a parliamentary democratic system of governance, itself based on freedom of expression and the freedom to form parties. The rights of minorities will duly be respected by the majority, as minorities must abide by decisions of the majority. Governance will be based on principles of social justice, equality and non-discrimination in public rights of men or women, on grounds of race, religion, colour or sex under the aegis of a constitution which ensures the rule of law and an independent judiciary. Thus shall these principles allow no departure from Palestine's age-old spiritual and civilization heritage of tolerance and religious coexistence.
The State of Palestine is an Arab state, an integral and indivisible part of the Arab nation, at one with that nation in heritage and civilization, with it also in its aspiration for liberation, progress, democracy and unity. The State of Palestine affirms its obligation to abide by the Charter of the League of Arab States, whereby the coordination of the Arab states with each otheshall be strengthened. It calls upon Arab compatriots to consolidate and enhance the emergence in reality of our state, to mobilize potential, and to intensify efforts whose goal is to end Israeli occupation.
The State of Palestine proclaims its commitment to the principles and purposes of the United Nations, and to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It proclaims its commitment as well to the principles and policies of the Non-Aligned Movement.
It further announces itself to be a peace-loving State, in adherence to the principles of peaceful coexistence. It will join with all states and peoples in order to assure a permanent peace based upon justice and the respect of rights so that humanity's potential for well-being may be assured, an earnest competition for excellence may be maintained, and in which confidence in the future will eliminate fear for those who are just and for whom justice is the only recourse.
In the context of its struggle for peace in the Land of Love and Peace, the State of Palestine calls upon the United Nations to bear special responsibility for the Palestinian Arab people and its homeland. It calls upon all peace- and freedom-loving peoples and states to assist it in the attainment of its objectives, to provide it with security, to alleviate the tragedy of its people, and to help it terminate Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories.
The State of Palestine herewith declares that it believes in the settlement of regional and international disputes by peaceful means, in accordance with the UN Charter and resolutions. Without prejudice to its natural right to defend its territorial integrity and independence, it therefore rejects the threat or use of force, violence and terrorism against its territorial integrity or political independence, as it also rejects their use against the territorial integrity of other states.
Therefore, on this day unlike all others, November 15, 1988, as we stand at the threshold of a new dawn, in all honour and modesty we humbly bow to the sacred spirits of our fallen ones, Palestinian and Arab, by the purity of whose sacrifice for the homeland our sky has been illuminated and our land given life. Our hearts are lifted up and irradiated by the light emanating from the much blessed Intifada, from those who have endured and have fought the fight of the camps, of dispersion, of exile, from those who have borne the standard for freedom, our children, our aged, our youth, our prisoners, detainees and wounded, all those whose ties to our sacred soil are confirmed in camp, village and town. We render special tribute to that brave Palestinian woman, guardian of sustenance and life, keeper of our people's perennial flame. To the souls of our sainted martyrs, to the whole of our Palestinian Arab people, to all free and honourable peoples everywhere, we pledge that our struggle shall be continued Until the occupancy ends, and the foundation of Our Sovereignty and Independence Shall Be fortified accordingly.
Therefor, we call upon Our great people to rally to the banner of Palestine, to cherish and Defend it, so That It May Be forever the symbol of Our Freedom and Dignity in homeland That s, which is a homeland for the free, now and always.
(phrase of the Koran) End
It's amazing we all knew it was going to come a time, one day this criminal going to admit it, nothing but as they say is true the truth hurts. 
