[WCUSP] [Wisewomen] Ashrawi Address in Durbin August 2001

[yvonne simmons]

>Dear all, I think to put the paragraph of Hanan
Ashrawi's Durban August 2001 speech that Pat sent on,
below, with a link to the entire speech with what has
been suggested about Carter's book is the way to go. 
 Yvonne
> > >> >>> >>>> "......The Palestinians today continue
> to be subject to 
> >>>> multiple forms and expressions of racism,
> exclusion, oppression, colonialism, 
> >>>> apartheid, and national denial. Our right to
> self-determination, hence 
> >>>> sovereignty and statehood, has been withheld by
> force and made subject to the 
> >>>> approval of our oppressor. The refugee
> populations, mostly "stateless 
> >>>> people," are bereft of the rudimentary civil,
> human, political, and national 
> >>>> rights, left at the mercy of host countries
> that view them either as a 
> >>>> demographic threat, or as unwelcome guests.
> While Israel has legislated a "law 
> >>>> of return" to bring in Jews from all over the
> world into historical 
> >>>> Palestine, it persists in rejecting the
> Palestinian refugees' "Right of Return" 
> >>>> and in refusing to abide by UN res. 194, a
> legal commitment which the 
> >>>> international community was supposed to
> guarantee and implement..."  Hanan Ashrawi, 
> Durbin South Africa, August 28.2001
> > >> >>> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> >
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