Democratic Palestine : 32 (ص 38)
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Solidarity Conference in Athens
On February Sth and 6th, the Inter-
national Committee of Artists and In-
tellectuals for the Support of the
Uprising and the Struggle of the
Palestinian People in the Occupied
Territories held an international work-
ing meeting of lawyers and women in
Athens, Greece. Over 45 invited par-
ticipants spoke and offered concrete
suggestions on ways and means of
support for the intifada. The speakers,
who were primarily from the Arab
world and Europe, included actresses,
writers, professors, artists, cultural
workers, journalists, lawyers and
representatives from women’s
organizations.
The focus of the conference was the
legal aspect of the occupation and in-
ternational violations by Israel, while
the second day concentrated on women
and children in the intifada. Par-
ticipants provided statistics and some
first-hand descriptions of life under the
occupation. Five Palestinians from the
1967 occupied territories and four from
the territories occupied in 1948 attend-
ed the conference.
Among the prominent speakers were
Um Jihad (Intissar Al Wazir); Issam
Abdel Hadi, President of the Union of
Palestinian Women; Yahya Yakhlef,
PLO Cultural Director; Fuad Bitar,
PLO Representative in Greece; Mirjam
Vire-Tuomien, General Secretary of the
Women’s International Democratic
Federation; Naziha Mazhoud, Presi-
dent of the Union of Tunisian Women;
Omar El Hamdi, president of the Na-
tional Council of Arab Culture; and
Jean-Marie Lambert, the Executive
Director of the International Coor-
dinating Committee of NGO’s on the
Question of Palestine.
The first session was opened by
K. Kazokas, the president of the
Panhellenic Cultural Movement, a
main organizer of the conference. A
telegram from Yasir Arafat, greeting
the conference, was read by the Head
of the Diplomatic Mission of the PLO
in Athens. The lawyers spoke about the
fact that legally occupation is a tem-
porary state‘and that it is essential that
people be independent and have the
right to self-determination. They called
the intifada a heroic revolution and not
terrorist. They said, «The present con-
ditions in the occupied territories
represent a violation of all human
rights prevailing in civilized societies.
Their final statement listed seven sug-
gestions:
(1) publicizing the Israeli violations of
Palestinian human rights in terms of
violations of life, expulsions, house
demolitions, curfews, collective
punishment, administrative detention,
the closure of schools, imposing taxa-
tion, and cutting off electricity, water
and communications.
(2) pressuring Israel to stop these viola-
tions and recognize the Palestinian
peopie’s right to self-determination and
an independent state on Palestinian
land under the PLO, the sole,
legitimate representative of the
Palestinian people.
(3) an appeal to the international
community to support the Palestinian
intifada on all possible levels.
(4) to call for temporary UN supervi-
sion in the occupied territories to
facilitate the withdrawal of the oc-
cupation troops and to protect the
Palestinian masses.
(5) to appeal to the international com-
Speakers panel at opening sessior
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