THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE DO HAVE RIGHTS, Reel 2

[Music] for many the first move had been to the West Bank there they lived in camps but at least they were still in their own country in ' 67 when Israel occupied the rest of Palestine the West Bank camps emptied themselves in a new Mass Exodus this time across the blown up Allen B Bridge into Jordan thanks to the Israeli Jordan Ian open Bridge policy this Gateway Between Two Worlds at War remains open to this day a link for Palestinians in Exile and those who stayed behind Dr SED says for the first time it became apparent to Palestinians that if they were going to rely exclusively upon the Arab states to wage their struggle for them they would get nowhere and therefore Palestinians had to take their own progress towards self-determination in their own hands at a moment of the deepest Collective Arab failure the Palestinians began then to assert themselves and to take up arms to struggle towards self-determination in ' 67 when the rest of Palestine was occupied I was a soldier in the Jordanian Army the king ordered us to withdraw without fighting and so the whole of Palestine fell to Zionist control there had been resistance before but 67 was when the Palestinian Revolution really started since ' 67 we've had our own weapons our own soldiers we' become public 3 years later within 48 Hours three airliners were h hijacked and forced to land in the Jordanian desert after days of negotiation the hostages were freed and the planes destroyed Palestinians had made the complacent World aware of their plight through dramatic news headlines that same year in Jordan violent clashes occurred between Palestinian and Jordanian [Music] [Music] troops many died on both sides and many Palestinian Fighters left for another exile to Lebanon this time and many other places but the spirit of resistance and determination to restore their rights was not dead what had been common scenes in the streets of Aman just moved to Beirut as Palestinians continued to Rally to their cause during the 60s Gaza was the stage for protest and sabotage but after 1970 little remained of the rest there however the October War had instilled a new sense of Pride to the Arabs on the occupied West Bank this was expressed through more and more demonstrations against both the military authorities and the appearance of new Jewish settlers on Arab land the result was tightened security numerous arrests and for some deportation from 1967 till now the rebuilt Allen be Bridge has become the road to Exile for most of the 1300 people expelled by the Israelis from Gaza and the West Bank yeah taking from the milary governor office in Jericho at 12:00 noon to the bridge where they reached the half of the bridge and they told me that from here you can go but you can't come back I said someday I will come back to my country because it's my country we never uh thought that they will treat us after the occupation by the way they treated the people of uh demolishing houses demolishing Villages treating people the way they are treating them that will create more hatred from the Arabs that the Jews that's why they are still in the camp and they're working in the camp they're raising their kids in the camp because they know that someday we are going back for instance I can't go back I want to go back not as a visit I want to go back and live in my hometown my Farmer is closed I can't open my Pharmacy my wife will go there only for one week two weeks every summer to renew the permits and come all my family or my tribe if we say a white family uh they are living there I have my land my house my interest there right I'm living here I'm um having not a bad time but still I want to go back to my hometown Aman is a temporary Haven for many Palestinian forz their only alternative to Israeli prison they used to hang me from my feet with my upside down with my head down and they began to beat me on the on my feet and on my sexual organs for uh hours Israel concedes that some excesses were committed over the years by its occupying forces it says that disciplinary measures were taken where cases have been documented and denies that torture was ever a state policy but the UN special committee to investigate Israeli practices in the occupied territories basing itself on Witnesses and press reports within and outside Israel stated the indications are very strong that cases of torture occurred and continue to occur my wife and my children are ready now to fight and to be killed in the in the in the sake of Palestine in any time and I have my son my son uh since two months I uh is m is lost he's lost this his uh this his picture and I don't feel uh any said about him this is my son since two months in leano he's lost many others have gone and many other s will never return for these men who have never known a land they can call their own The Rebirth of Palestine is the cause unfortunately killings and hangings bullets and tanks leave indelible marks in the minds of the young proofs are easy to find in the Middle East these [Applause] days wherever they parents were killed during one of the many wars and conflicts the Palestinians have known these last 30 years these orphans are the wards of [Music] fat the memory of the parents lives on in the recollection of their sons and [Music] daughters I will be a girl but if my country is liberated I'll be a doctor and engineer anything that my country needs me yes Edward S remarks one of the saddest things to see is young children for whom no alternative exists except the gun but I have a feeling that's changing over the years now there are more Palestinian schools in which greater emphasis is placed on academic subjects on widening the educational experience of each child so that the day is not defined by exercises with a gun [Music] there is a Palestinian dialect which is different in Arabic from let's say Syrian or Lebanese or Egyptian there are Traditions there are costumes the family and Clan organizations are different Cuisine turns of phrase popular stories mythology and so on and so forth so that you had in Palestine essentially a community but nevertheless a cohesive National Community which associated itself with the [Music] [Applause] [Music] land I believe the present generation among the Palestinians cannot be called as moderate as the older Generations among the Palestinians that's why I think that now it's the golden opportunity to have a peaceful settlement with the Israelis between the Palestinians and Israelis provided that the Israelis would recognize the rights of self determination of the Palestinians and including establishment of their own independent State on what remained from the Palestinian soil that was occupied in 1967 going home for a short visit is the hope of most Palestinians in diaspora during the months when the Israeli military authorities implement this right of family reunions thousands try to take advantage of it to get the permit is long and difficult the screenings by both sides meticulous but it is easier for Palestinians wishing to leave the occupied areas especially when they are not requesting a right of return once by the bridge there are further checks long hours of waiting before being called to board one of the buses because the Israelis process only two dozen buses each day some have to return Time After Time hoping that tomorrow they will get their chance on the other side of the river there will be more security body searches customs duties which sometimes make it necessary to abandon gifts or purchases behind some do not go back by way of the bridge they are gorillas who find their own way across borders their missions illustrate the conflict between what is justifiable to them and what is inexcusable to others this took place in Mala Israel in 1974 following a raid at the school there by the Democratic front for the liberation of Palestine 21 Israeli children and four adults were killed that day there are differences of opinions among Palestinians regarding the extent to which violence is justifiable the killing of innocent civilians such as Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics or Travelers at lot airport brought wide spread International condemnation you see we are against all this uh violence the PO is against it you know it and we have declared it many times but we have to remember and to look to the this uh case from all its views the PLO still accepts responsibility for raids inside isra but violence continues on both sides this took place in aier southern Lebanon after an Israeli air raid over 100 were killed men women and children [Applause] similar military actions have been taken over the years by Israel against Palestinian camps in other Arab countries in some cases following Guerilla raids inside Israel or against Israel interests elsewhere by breeds hatred retaliation brings only further retaliation an ie for an ie is often paid at high interest rates in our day and age events of these last years have made the world painfully aware that the Palestinian people and the recognition and implementation of their rights are the key to any solution in the Middle East they are there they are a fact like it or not no formula can be found no resolution implemented which does not take their inalienable rights into consideration the security Council expressing its continuing concern with the grave situation in the Middle East from the creation of the United Nations to this day no topic has been the subject of more debates and deliberation by the world body following the 1967 war the security Council adopted the all important resolution 242 peace in the Middle East which should include the PLO found this resolution objectionable the United Nations security Council resolution 242 is not accepted by the Palestinians for the following reasons first of all it ignored the national rights of the Palestinians the second thing it didn't mention about the national rights of the Palestinians and look to the matter as if it's a conflict between the Arab states and the uh and Israel although the C of the problem in the Middle East is the Palestinian Coast Geneva December 1973 since the first session of the Geneva peace conference several significant developments affecting the Palestinians have taken place United Nations General Assembly resolution 3375 requests the participation of the PLO in all peace efforts on an equal footing with all other parties Israel remains opposed to this on the ground that among other things 242 calls for negotiation among states and the PLO is not a state and also because they have always refused to deal with groups which they see as bent on destroying Israel in 1974 and 75 the general assembly proclaimed its resolutions 3236 and 3375 which respectively affirm the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and recognized the PLO as its representative in the deliberations of the United [Applause] Nations it is uh mentioned in the United Nation resolution 3236 that the Palestinian uh have their own inable rights including their right for self-determination for the sovereignty and Independence for their re repatriation to their Homeland and we see to it that this settlement should take into consideration all these rights National rights of the Philistines United Nations New York November 13th 1974 yaser Arafat comes to address the general assembly [Music] I appeal to you further to Aid our people's return to its Homeland from an involuntary Exile imposed on it by force of Arms by tyranny by oppression so the that we can regain our property our land and thereafter live in our national Homeland free and Sovereign enjoying all the Privileges of nationhood today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom Fighter's [Music] gun do not let the Olive Branch fall from my hand I repeat do not let the Olive Branch fall from my [Applause] hand homelessness stateless even with without an an identity card we haven't Flags we haven't States we haven't a home we haven't anything concerning human being rights but accept misery in this Thea but we kept very important thing our will and determination and for this we still existing we started from zero but we now are the important number in this area in this formula we are not after 10 years or 3 years or just uh solving a problem like this no we want our rights we want our land we want to go back and live in Palestine we are struggling to have to regain their our own identity this is a divine right that is given to us by God I think that the Palestinians they are well educated and well cultured they can take part in all fields of human activity I mean scientific Arts literature I think as a small nation we can take [Music] part this is my feeling and I am ready to leave everything here and go back to my home really everything I am ready to to to start from the zero [Music] even do not deny the people who were original owners the right to go back do not deny the Palestinian per se the right to perform as a human being I am a human being if the world wants me to abide by the morality of humanity then they must treat me as a human being