Aims of the Palestinian Resistance Movement with Regard to the Jews (ص 13)

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Aims of the Palestinian Resistance Movement with Regard to the Jews (ص 13)

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Palestine Resistance Movement and the jews 13
3) That the solution, being an earnest endeavour to establish
genuine peace, should be solidly grounded in justice.
4) Lastly, that it should have a long time-horizon.
‘“‘We, the Palestinians, submit that no solution so far suggested
satisfies these conditions together, except the one which the
Palestinians propose as the minimum acceptable to them. This
is the setting-up of Palestine as a state in partnership, in which
the Palestinian Arabs and the Jews who care to stay can live
together as equal citizens, regardless of religion, colour or race.
For the Palestine Jews opting for the proposal, this means iden-
tifying with Palestine, and with its Arab environment, and there-
fore shedding off Zionist associations and expansionist attitudes.
For the Arabs, it means accepting the Jewish community and
cooperating with it in democratic conditions—and this for the
first time since the Balfour Declaration in 1917.
“This solution should be put to some test, and there are four
touchstones to which we can subject it. First, the proposed
solutwun would be advantageous to the Jewish community and
not merely to the Palestine Arabs. For the Jews, it would at last
provide both a sense of belonging and of being accepted. The
purpose of Jewish immigration into and settlement in Palestine
has always been the search for a refuge and a haven, but this
has all along been attempted against the will of the Palestine
Arabs. The result—in rejection and in violence—is too well-
known to be described. Only the agreement of the Palestine
Arabs will provide a genuine peaceful haven for the Jews in
Palestine, not their powerful army, and not their all-powerful
patrons. The democratic state in partnership is the only formula
that would make the Palestine Arabs forever bury their grievances
and sufferings—and their arms.
‘“‘The second touchstone for the proposal is its fairness to the Jews,
apart from fairness to the Palestine Arabs. It is enough to say
that the proposal would provide, a home for all the Jews in
Palestine who choose to live in peace with the Arabs, although most
of them have come to the land against the will of the Palestine

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