Palestinians must be free
Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat is chief representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the United States. Israeli Vice Premier Moshe Ya’alon recently penned an article for Foreign Policy that perniciously distorts the Palestinian commitment to a lasting peace, and misrepresents our sincere efforts to find a diplomatic solution to this conflict. Let me correct the ...
Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat is chief representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the United States.
Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat is chief representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the United States.
Israeli Vice Premier Moshe Ya’alon recently penned an article for Foreign Policy that perniciously distorts the Palestinian commitment to a lasting peace, and misrepresents our sincere efforts to find a diplomatic solution to this conflict. Let me correct the record.
Ya’alon’s inflammatory rhetoric is designed to disguise the simple truth that the conflict between Israel and the Arab and Muslim worlds is the result of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian and Arab territory, and the subsequent denial of equality and liberty to the people of our region.
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