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Begin's, Sadat's and government's peace protested
Editor's note: This guest opinion was
jointly written by the Organization of Arab
Students in Nebraska .
The demonstration on UNL campus
Friday, Dec. 1, was the first one organized
by the Arab Organization in Nebraska. It
was a demonstration that meant to show
the World and Nebraska that all Arabs are
against Camp David agreements signed be
tween Carter, Begin and Sadat.
guest opinion
Some might wonder why is the demon
stration condemning peace talks while
everyone loves and works for peace. The
answer is that the demonstration is against
Begin's peace, Sadat's peace and U.S.
government's peace, but for the peace with
the free democratic Palestine for everyone.
Camp David agreements completely ig
nored the goals and aspirations of Arabs in
general and Palestinians in particular.
Why in fact it claimed it's going to provide
the Palestinians (the inhabitants) a share in
the autonomy in these two places, which is
close to nothing for every Palestinian. It
completely excluded, on purpose, the rest
of the Palestinians (2.5 million scattered
in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and
Arabian Gulf and the rest of the world.)
The demonstration showed the solid
arity of freedom fighters of the world
against imperialism and Fascism in occup
ied Palestine, in Iran, Latin America and
Africa. We are in the 20th century now,
are not we civilized enough to support the
idea that every nation should decide its
own regime, dogma and way of life. Are
not we brave enough to fight the inter
vention of great powers in different
parts of this world .
Sadat now is fighting to stay in power.
The people in Egypt will not believe him
anymore just like on Jan. 15, 1977 when
the masses in Cairo destructed everything:
cars, buildings and government offices
and the traitor regime killed 200 Arabs
at the time. Besides, Sadat has succeeded
to segregate the Arab World in the end of
1977 when he visited Jerusalem. Now, the
Arab nation is more desperate to fight
Israel and the Palestinians are more bitter
and more determined to liberate Palestine
and to establish the "Palestinian Democrat
ic Secular Republic."
Not a single Arab or American president
can ignore that the Palestinians are an
effective power and that no peace will be
there until the liberation of Palestine, Not
any teirorist like Begin or the rest of the
fascists in Israel can kill all Palestinians We
are even 4.5 million wliile the Israelis are
3.5 million (or so they claimed) because
it's not a lost cause (the Liberation of
Palestine).
Some will ask: why do you want our
sympathy while you keep on killing
Israelis? Their are 10,000 Palestinian
prisoners in Israelis' jails considered ordi
nary and not war prisoners. These prisoners
are tortured daily and beyond any human
imagination and yet the Americans don't
know about tliis. Yet Carter says we are
not supporting any country that stands
agasinst "human rights" defending the
poor Jews in Russia and not considering
"Palestinians as human beings!!!"
Why do Palestinians fight? Why is it im
portant for them to liberate Palestine?
In 1918, after the end of World War I,
the British took Palestine from the
Ottoman Empire and placed it under man
date. In 1917, the foreign-secretary of the
so-known British Empire, Belfore, made
his ill-famous declaration that "the govern
ment of his majesty the king promises the
Jews a homeland in Palestine." Thus was
the beginning of the biggest forgery opera
tion in modern history. How can any per
son, living or dead, promise a land to any
religion that does not exist there in the
first place?
In 1918, with the collaboration of the
British fascist army, thousands of Jews
started pouring into Palestine and taking
whatever they liked, land, trees, homes and
houses that the Palestinians owned for
centuries.
Before 1918, 1.000 Jews were living
in peace and harmony side-by-side with
Moslems and Christians like they did in
the rest of the Arab world.
After 1918, hatred started to arise.
Arabs started hating Jews because locals
hate immigrants. Also, if they were immi
grants only, no one will hate anyone,
but they came to Palestine to establish
a state for Jews only. Arabs hated their
plans, though some Arabs and Jews were
friends and they used to marry each other
even .
Arabs hated the British, because they
were crucifying Arabs for any reason and
because they were supporting Jews and
Zionists to establish an exclusive fascist
state in Palestine.
The Arabs made a lot of revolts and
uprisings, though the British were killing
hundreds of us each time. In 1936, the
the Palestinians made the famous six
month "general strike," or civil disobed
ience, as it is known sometimes, where no
shop and no factory was open, and where
people were staying in homes most of the
time. This strike ended with the interven
tion of kings of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and
Egypt, and these traitors gave Palestinians
the promise that if they stop the strike,
the British Mandate Authorities will give
them independence. They have stopped,
but they knew there will be no more prom
ises that they will accept after that.
In 1939, the second world war erupted.
All nations on earth were engaged more or
less with the war. British were bringing
Indian and Australian batallions to the
area. Afterwards, Palestinians were helping
and taking care of the Polish kids and in
fants whose families were killed by the fas
cist Hitler. During all this time, Jews and
Zionists were still puring in thousands to
Palestine and after World War II, they
became 15 percent of the population.
There is a point here. Hitler did not
only kill and incinerate the Jews, but
Greeks, Polish, French, Belgians and
Russians. But the Jews made a big fuss
about it. True, Hitler was a killer and we
don't support his massacre of Jews, but we
are not responsible for what he did. From
the Zionist point of view, that was not the
case and the revenge was taken from Arabs
by massacres and attrocities committed by
most the ruling class of Israel, now espec
ially the killer Begin. He killed 220 old
men, women and children by stabbing
them to death and then throwing them in
the well of the village (Dier Yassin) in
1948.
After the Israelis got enough armament
from the Europeans, especially the British
and the Americans, the British suddenly
pulled out from Palestine. Ben Guorion
declared the establishment of Israel May
15, 1948.
Palestinian Arabs started their big flee
for life after that. Two million Palestinians
were running from death to all directions.
They thought the Arab armies would
return them to their homes after a week.
But. . . again, they did not and no one
did, though they've tried to go back where
they belong but to no avail. Israeli soldiers
were imprisoning at least for life or killing
anyone who dares to do so.
The myth of Palestine and Palestinian
Arabs started then. They have entered
into a long-lived armed struggle to liberate
their lands. This cause and their right is un
questionable and no one is to deny it.
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