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1967: Our rights have to be recognized
by Ismail Haniyeh
When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war
in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they
would still be haunted by the consequences. At the time,
they were driven by one strategic objective: to end the
conflict by seizing all that remained of Palestine and
complete the process of ethnic cleansing that started in
1948. They did not realise the resolution of this conflict
would take much more than military superiority.
The occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan
Heights and the Sinai peninsula was portrayed as the
victory of David over Goliath. For the next two decades
the Palestinian experience was drowned out by the clamour
of Israeli hubris. The world paid little attention to the
expropriation of Palestinian land, the apartheid regime
established by the occupation and the systematic
destruction of Palestinian livelihoods.
It was only in 1987 that the world awoke to the reality of
a popular Palestinian uprising - intifada. A new generation
had come of age, thirsty for freedom and peace with dignity
in their own land. The two decades since have confirmed
that my people will not repeat the mistakes of 1948. They
will remain rooted in their land, whatever the price, and
pursue their legitimate right to resist the occupation.
That right is supported by, for example, UN Resolutions
2955 and 3034, which affirm the "inalienable" right of all
peoples to self-determination and the legitimacy of their
struggle against foreign domination and subjugation "by all
available means".
Israel's fateful error was to underestimate the resolve of
the Palestinians. Tens of thousands have been killed or
wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the
number of Palestinians killed reached 650. Since the
beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, more than
650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel - about
40% of the male population. Today three-quarters of the
Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million
Palestinian refugees throughout the world.
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With the signing of the Oslo accords in 1993, we were told
that things would get better. But life became more hellish
as Israel accelerated settlement building and seizures of
our land. Meanwhile, the world was fed the fallacy that
Israel was defending its "threatened existence". In
reality, it is Israel, through the prosecution of colonial
war, that has threatened the Palestinians' right to live
in their land. And when they were most needed, the world's
most powerful states refused to ensure respect for the
international law that "the acquisition of territory by
force is inadmissible".
In contempt of the will of the international community,
Israel continues to build its annexationist apartheid wall
across the West Bank. Which western state would, in the
21st century, accept that its citizens be literally caged
and locked into cantons?
Undaunted by repression, my people have embraced democracy
as a means of struggle and governance. Yet in response the
world's most powerful democracies have imposed an economic
blockade against my people, while Israel continues to kill,
expropriate and destroy with impunity. The humanitarian
catastrophe in the occupied West Bank and Gaza is clearly
designed to subvert the elected government and create a
client authority that concedes every wish of the occupier.
There can be no exit from the impasse without sanctions
being lifted and Israel's release of the hundreds of
millions of dollars of our money it has seized.
In the 1967 war, Israel conquered the land of Palestine but
it did not conquer the people. And in its attempt to debase
and dehumanise my people, Israel has debased and degraded
itself before the family of nations. The 1967 war has over
40 years engendered successive wars and destabilisation of
the Middle East. The increasing mistrust between the Arab-
Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the
conflict in Palestine.
The first step to change this catastrophic climate is for
the west to engage with the Palestinian National Unity
government, which envisages the establishment of an
independent state on all the Palestinian land occupied by
Israel in 1967, the dismantling of all the settlements in
the West Bank, the release of all 11,000 Palestinian
prisoners in Israeli jails and the recognition of the right
of all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. If
Israel is serious about peace, it has to recognise these
basic rights of our people. The 1967 war remains an
unfinished chapter. Nothing will stop our struggle for
freedom and to have all our children reunited in a fully
sovereign state of Palestine, with Jerusalem as its
capital.
- Ismail Haniyeh is the Palestinian prime minister
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