SPECIAL INSERT: \"Questionable\" Statements Excerpted from Arafat\'s UN Speech
\"The Palestinian people have expressed their readiness to confront all forms of international terrorism including state organized terror, in order to build a new world that will guarantee justice, peace, security and freedom to all people, a new world based on human rights, international legality...
\"As you all recall, the U.N. General Assembly issued Resolution 181, which called for the partition of Palestine into two states: One Jewish and the other Palestinian, but the Palestinian state was not recognized by the U.N….
\"…we signed a number of agreements and memorandum of understandings [with Israel]. After the assassination of my late partner Mr. Itzhaq Rabin, the Israeli Governments that followed took the path of non-compliance and did not implement Israel\'s obligations pertaining form agreements signed, which impeded our sincere efforts to reach a comprehensive, just, lasting peace, the peace of the brave...
\"Then came the Sharon visit to the Noble Sanctuary [Temple Mount] in holy Jerusalem, which I had warned the Israeli Government of its grave consequences on the peace process and on the region. This action sparked the Palestinian Intifada… [ed. note: Fatah head Marwan Bargouti told the Jerusalem Times in June of this year, \"the intifada did not start because of Sharon\'s visit,\" but that the violence \"began because of the desire to put an end to occupation and because the Palestinians did not approve of the peace process in its previous form.\" In addition, PA official Imad Faluji said at a rally in Lebanon on March 3, 2001 that the violence \"had been planned since Chairman Arafat\'s return from Camp David [two months before Sharon\'s visit].\"]
\"The current Israeli Government continues the aggression against the Palestinian people, which began by the previous Government. State terror is being practiced against the Palestinian people…
\"Facing this aggression, escalation, and the bloody war of state terror being waged by the Israel¡ Government against our people, land, holy places, the tanks incursions into our cities, villages and refugee camps, and the massacres committed in various locations in the West-Bank and the Gaza Strip, we call upon the international community represented by all of you and all supporters of peace, freedom, justice through out the world to exert every possible effort to stop this war of aggression, send international observers to protect our people from the occupation, terror and ethnic cleansing practiced by Israel and in order to supervise the implementation of the cease fire declared a number of times by our side and always violated by the Israeli Government…
\"Allow me, to extend my deepest appreciation and sincere wishes to all brotherly, friendly nations and to the Super Powers, which have realized today more than any other time before, that the establishment of a Palestinian State with holy Jerusalem as its capital is the only guarantee for security, peace and stability in the region and the world, and constitute a cornerstone for establishing and sustaining it.
\"We call upon these nations… to exert every possible effort to… enable the Palestinian people to live… within their independent State on their national soil with holy Jerusalem as its capital, and to ensure that Israel, the occupying power, full and comprehensive withdrawal from all Palestinian and Arab territories including holy Jerusalem to the June 4th, 1967 boundaries, to end settlement activities and evacuate settlers from our land and guarantee the right of the Palestinian refugees to return in accordance with resolution \"194\" which specified this right and called for compensating those not wishing to return…
\"We welcome the positive positions declared by President George Bush and other leaders, which have called for the establishment of the Palestinian State…\"
\"The Palestinian people have expressed their readiness to confront all forms of international terrorism including state organized terror, in order to build a new world that will guarantee justice, peace, security and freedom to all people, a new world based on human rights, international legality...
\"As you all recall, the U.N. General Assembly issued Resolution 181, which called for the partition of Palestine into two states: One Jewish and the other Palestinian, but the Palestinian state was not recognized by the U.N….
\"…we signed a number of agreements and memorandum of understandings [with Israel]. After the assassination of my late partner Mr. Itzhaq Rabin, the Israeli Governments that followed took the path of non-compliance and did not implement Israel\'s obligations pertaining form agreements signed, which impeded our sincere efforts to reach a comprehensive, just, lasting peace, the peace of the brave...
\"Then came the Sharon visit to the Noble Sanctuary [Temple Mount] in holy Jerusalem, which I had warned the Israeli Government of its grave consequences on the peace process and on the region. This action sparked the Palestinian Intifada… [ed. note: Fatah head Marwan Bargouti told the Jerusalem Times in June of this year, \"the intifada did not start because of Sharon\'s visit,\" but that the violence \"began because of the desire to put an end to occupation and because the Palestinians did not approve of the peace process in its previous form.\" In addition, PA official Imad Faluji said at a rally in Lebanon on March 3, 2001 that the violence \"had been planned since Chairman Arafat\'s return from Camp David [two months before Sharon\'s visit].\"]
\"The current Israeli Government continues the aggression against the Palestinian people, which began by the previous Government. State terror is being practiced against the Palestinian people…
\"Facing this aggression, escalation, and the bloody war of state terror being waged by the Israel¡ Government against our people, land, holy places, the tanks incursions into our cities, villages and refugee camps, and the massacres committed in various locations in the West-Bank and the Gaza Strip, we call upon the international community represented by all of you and all supporters of peace, freedom, justice through out the world to exert every possible effort to stop this war of aggression, send international observers to protect our people from the occupation, terror and ethnic cleansing practiced by Israel and in order to supervise the implementation of the cease fire declared a number of times by our side and always violated by the Israeli Government…
\"Allow me, to extend my deepest appreciation and sincere wishes to all brotherly, friendly nations and to the Super Powers, which have realized today more than any other time before, that the establishment of a Palestinian State with holy Jerusalem as its capital is the only guarantee for security, peace and stability in the region and the world, and constitute a cornerstone for establishing and sustaining it.
\"We call upon these nations… to exert every possible effort to… enable the Palestinian people to live… within their independent State on their national soil with holy Jerusalem as its capital, and to ensure that Israel, the occupying power, full and comprehensive withdrawal from all Palestinian and Arab territories including holy Jerusalem to the June 4th, 1967 boundaries, to end settlement activities and evacuate settlers from our land and guarantee the right of the Palestinian refugees to return in accordance with resolution \"194\" which specified this right and called for compensating those not wishing to return…
\"We welcome the positive positions declared by President George Bush and other leaders, which have called for the establishment of the Palestinian State…\"