tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455383.post2674426498292830830..comments2023-10-08T18:46:47.526+03:00Comments on E-man and the Masters of the University: An Eternity of OccupationEmmanuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02270751138155111328noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455383.post-66671737196440653682011-10-01T22:08:20.435+03:002011-10-01T22:08:20.435+03:00I wasn't talking about the UN speech, which wa...I wasn't talking about the UN speech, which was delivered five days after I posted this. Abbas said it in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/world/middleeast/06palestinians.html" rel="nofollow">an interview</a> in the New York Times: “We are going to complain that as Palestinians we have been under occupation for 63 years.”Emmanuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02270751138155111328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455383.post-90003222883442824682011-10-01T00:40:44.212+03:002011-10-01T00:40:44.212+03:00Dear Emmanuel,
I was wondering you may help me in...Dear Emmanuel,<br /><br />I was wondering you may help me in finding Abbas statement on 63 years of occupation. I try to read Abbas' trancription of speech in front of UN - heve yhe one from Haaretz but English is not my languege and possibly I missed the point.<br /><br />I have found this : <br /><br />"I come before you today ....to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people in the homeland and in the the Diaspora, to say, after 63 years of suffering of the ongoing Nakba: Enough. It is time for the Palestinian people to gain their freedom and independence".<br /><br />Abu Mazen' passionate speech has a lot of points I disagree upon but if this is the only reference to the 63 years ( not sure about ) this are referred to sufference of ongoing nakba and not to occupation provided that Haaretz translation is right.<br />Now Abu Mazen is usually ambiguous but this time I think that he was clerly referring to sufference from Nakba and not to Israeli occupation of West Bank ( Judea/ Samaria ) in a strict term that personally I would date back to June 1967.<br />But it is maybe possible I missed the point or Abu Mazen spoke about 63 years of occupation out of UN speech<br /><br />With regards<br /><br />Andreaandreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03666641765041353914noreply@blogger.com