Democratic Palestine : 34 (ص 25)

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Democratic Palestine : 34 (ص 25)

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NGO Meeting on Palestine
Linking support to the Palestinian intifada with work for a just peace
in the Middle East was the keynote of the 6th UN North American
Regional NGO Symposium on the Question of Palestine, which was
held June 21-23rd in the UN headquarters in New York. Represen-
tatives from many organizations in the US and Canada attended the
symposium, along with a number of Palestinians from the occupied
territories and Israeli peace activists.
The symposium opened with a speech
by the chairman of the Committee for
the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of
the Palestinian People. Then, Palestine’s
permanent observer at the UN read
aloud a message from PLO Chairman
and President of Palestine, Yasir
Arafat, wherein he reaffirmed the
PLO’s commitment to the peace in-
itiative adopted at the November 1988
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PNC. The message also reiterated the
PLO’s refusal of Shamir’s election
plan, since democratic elections are
impossible under occupation.
The next speaker was Jeanne Butter-
field, chairperson of the North
American Coordinating Committee for
NGOs on the Question of Palestine.
She took status of the NGO’s work to
date and outlined their tasks for the
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coming period, linking the current
situation of the Palestinian intifada and
the PLO’s peace initiative with the need
for action, especially in the light of the
increasing Israeli repression. She said,
«We are challenged as never before.
Time is running out. Mass deportations
are possible. Starvation is possible.
Genocide is even possible. But peace is
possible too, if we will it enough to act
effectively to make it happen.»
MOBILIZING SUPPORT
There were two panel discussions at
the symposium focusing on political
issues related to NGO’s goals and
concrete work. The first centered on the
topic, The Intifada: Creating a New
Context for Peace. Three panelists
contributed their viewpoints on this
topic: the Rev. Elias Chacour, a
Palestinian Melkite priest serving in the
Galilee; Zahira Kamal, chairperson for
the Federation of Women’s Action
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