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The Inalienable Rights,Of the Palestinian People THEFIRST UNITEDNATIOIVS SEMINAR 019 THE QUlEYi'IOrJOF PALBGTIIOE Theiae: "The Inalienable Rights,of the Palestinian People" l+July- 18 July is80 ARusEA TEESECOND UI'CFED Wd'IOlVS SEXIIVAR OI! TBP:QUESTIOH OF~AUSTIHE L . Thanc: "The Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian @&ple" 25 Augw - 29 Awwt $980 VImmA .' 5 1 UEITED NATIOES SEMINARS ON THE QUESTIONOF PALESTINE CONTENTS Arushs , EXE 1. Report of the First United Nations Seminar on the Question 2 of Palestine 2. Opening address by the Ronourable Ibrahim Kaduma, Minister 8 for Trade, United Republic of Tanzania 3. Statement by the Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise 12 of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, H.E. Mr. Falilou Kane (Senegal) I. PAPERSPRESENTEDATTHESEMINAR Palestinian Rights and the United Nations Beshier 17 The Land Question in Palestine and in East Clarke and Southern Africa 25 Human Rights and the Inalienable Rights LeMelle 42 of the Palestinians How the Palestinians Became Refugees: Sinare 53 Denial of Basic Human Rights The Implementation of United Nations Resolutions Cattan 65 on Palestine Stages in the History of the Legal Issues in Jabara RR the Palestine Problem: An Overview UN Recognition of Palestinian Rights Determines Muhsmmad 93 Their Legitimacy Israel and South Africa: The Nature of the Magubane 105 Unholy Alliance Africa and the Question of Palestine Nzoagola 119 Settlement Policy in the Palestinian Awad 133 Occupied Territories Israeli Settlement Policies in the Occupied Mutukwa 138 Arab Territories Zionist Settlement Ideology and Its' Will ,147 1 Ramifications for the Palestinian People The Palestine Liberation organization: 165 Past, Present and Future ?%"-d"" 5. List of Participants 182 UNITEDIVATIOlVS SEMIIJARS 01 THE QUESTIOIVOF PALESTINE CONTEN!rs(m&d) . --.. Vienna !&Et 1 : Report of the Second United Nations Seminar on the Question 185 . of Palestine 2, Opening address by Mr. Hans Georg Rudofsky, Head of the 193 Division for the United Nations, Mirristry of Foreign Affairs, Austria. 3. Statement by the Chairman of the Coqmi$tee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, H. E. Mr. Falilou Kane (Senegal) 194 4. PAPERS PRESENTEDAT TRR SEMINAR Human Rights and the Israeli Occupation Aruri 200 of Palestine The,UN and the National Rights of the Mallison 215 People of Palestine I , Legal snd Psychological Value of the.National Cheklier 230 Arguments of the Palestinians and Intcr- national Opinion The Right to Self7Determination and the Schoenfelder 233 Establishment of a Palestinian Nation-State The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Adams 238 Israel's Occupation of the West Rank and Gaza > A Juridical Analysis of the Israeli Settlement Mallison 250 in the Occupied Territorks Palestinians and Human Rights: A Study of mm3 263 African Opinions and Attitudes to the Palestinian Question Palestinian Human Rights in the Context of the 290 Historical Development'of The Zionist Movement Nature of the Palestine Liberation Orgauization Agaryshev. 331 The Development of Palestirie Liberation Sharabi 345 Grgauization Peace Policy The Bon-Aligned Movement and the Intemational- Singhawand 851 ization of the Palestine Question Hune The Nature of the Palestide Liberation Jiryis 374 Organization The Formation of American Public Opiniou 'Skid 380' on the Question of'palestine * Western Public Opinion arid the Palestinian Chotihem 390 Probkem . The Palestinian Issue and Western Publi!: , Stevens ,398 Opi‘nion 5. List of Participants I .404 (iii} -l- .’ .* . -2- 1. Rmort of the First United Rations Seminar on the Question of Palestine 1. In accordance with the terms of General Assembly resolution 34/65 b, the first United Rations Seminar on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People took place at the International Conference Centre, Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania, fmm 14-18 July 1980. The Seminar was well attended and generated much interest in, and new insights on, the Question of Palestine. 2. The opening session of the Seminar on 14 July 1980 was addressed by the Honourable Ibrahim Kaduma, Minister of Trade, United Republfc of Taucania, who suggested some areas for concentrated discussion aud expressed the hope that the Seminar would help towards a resolution of the Palestine question. On the saxe day, His Excellency, Mr. Falilou ICane, Chairmau of the Committee on the . Exercise of the Iualienable Rights of the Palestinian People, gave a brief accoutd of the Committee and its work, as well as of the preparations for the forthcoming Emergency Special Session on Palestine. 3. At the carmencementof the third session on 15 July 1980 the participants observed a minute of silence as a mark of respect to the late Sir Seretse Ehama, . President of Botswaua, whose demise had been reported on the previous day. 4. In the course of the session 13 panelists presented papers before the six panels established to consider different aspects of the central theme "The Inalienable Ri,@ts of the Palestinian People." 59 These panels, the panelists aud titles of the papers p$eaented, were as follows: . A. Panel 1: The Fun&mental Rights of the Palestinian People Professor M.O. Basheer. (Sudan) aud Dr. John Henrik Clarke (United States of America) presented papers entitled "The Palestiniau Rights. and the United Rations" and "The Land Question in Palestine, and in East and Southern Africa: A comparative and Historical Study of Two Colonial Tra&edies . " B. Panel 2: HumanRi&ts and Palestine Dr. Tilden LeMelle (United States of America) and Miss HaweiSinare (Tanzania) presented papers entitled "The Legacy of Modern Imperiali&" and "How the Palestinians BecameRefugees: Benial or Basic HumanRights." -3- c. Panel 3: Legal Issues in the Palestine Question Professor Henry Cattan (Palestinian), Mr. Abdeen Jabara (United States of America) and Dr. Bala Muhammad (Nigeria) presented papers entitled "The Implementation of United Nations Resolutions on Palestine", "Stages in the History of the Legal Issues in the Palestine Problems: an overview" and "UN Recognition of Palestinian Rights Determines Their Legitimacy." D. Panel 4: Africa and Palestine Dr. Bernard Magubane (South Africa) and Dr. Ntalaja Nzongola (Zaire) presented papers entitled "Israel and South Africa: the Nature of the' Unholy Alliance," and "Africa and the Question of Palestine". E. Panel 5: Israeli Settlement Policies in the Occupied Arab Territories Mr. Awad Araby (Palestinian), Dr. Kasuka Mutukwa (Zambia) and Mr. Donald Will (United States of America) presented papers entitled 'The Israeli Settlement Policy in the Occupied Arab Territories," "Israeli Settlement Policies in the Occupied Arab Territories" and 'Zionist Settlement Ideology and its Ramifications for the Palestinian People." F. Panel 6: The Nature of the Palestine Liberation Organization A paper entitled "The Palestine Liberation Organization: Past, Present and Future"'was presented by Professor Asad Abdul-Rahman (Palestinian) 6. Each session concluded with an exchange of views on the points raised by the panelists, although time did not allow for a detailed discussion of all the interesting aspects that were raised. The main points made in the papers and in the discussions demonstrated broad agreement amongst the participants over a wide range of issues'relating to the realization of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. 7. In view of the depth of analysis contained in the papers presented at the Seminar, they will be published by the United Nations as a contribution to a wider understanding of the Palestinian question. 8. There was concentrated discussion on all aspects of the historical and legal evolution of the rights of the Palestinian people, the contemporary implications of that evolution, on the similarity of the racialist and colonialist policies of Israel and South Africa, and of the increasing collusion between these two countries which in both cases is detrimental to the rights of the indigenous people. The African support for the Palestinian cause was the sympathetic identification of a ccmmn struggle a&nst imperialism, -4- colonialism and racism. It was felt that greater solidarity should be exercised by the African and Arab people in their common cause. In this connexion, it was noted that the Organization of African Unity had decided not to renew relations with Israel until the Palestinian question was resolved. 9. Many specific details were also provided illustrating Israel's illegal settlements in the occupied territories, and of the policy behind these settlements. The creation of Israeli settlements was recognized as a deliberate infringement of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian ueoule. and a clear violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. It was amply demonstrated as a colonialist policy which was inflicting further hardship on the Palestinian people through their continued dispersion, the dispossession of their property, and the deprivation of all their national and human rights. It was pointed out that these settlements have recently been intensified and are even projected as a long-term measure. 10. The Seminar was of the opinion that the settlements policies had assumed a sinister and alarming dimension with the active encouragement reportedly given by the Israeli authorities to the activities of religious, paramilitary and underground groups that have been assigned a role in the implementation of a plan whose final objective is the expulsion of the Palestinian inhabitants . from the Occupied
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