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1. Rnsuant to General Assembly resolution 43/175 B of 15 Ikcembr 1988, the sixth Wted Nations North psrerican Regicmal symposium on the Question of Palestine was axwened, umkr the auspices of the crmnittee on- Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, at Wted Nations in New Y&, froan 21 to 23 &ne 1989. The theme of the symposium was inalienable rights of the Palestinian people81. 2. Qlehundredandsix~~~tions(EKK)s)francanadaand the united states of America, 35 of these as abservers, ptarticipatd in the mrk of the Symposium. Ten? expert panelists and 28 mrksbp fadlitatorS and resoume persms attended the SYmp0Siurm and its eight wurkshp. 3. The Syqosium was opmd by H.E. Mrs. Absa CldDiallo of Senegal, who addressedtheEIeetingonbehalfofthe--antheEKRsclse . of the Inalienable Rights of the p;alestinian pople. In her statenmt, Mrs. Diallo, c3minmnoftha~-on~~of the Inalienable Rights of 43~ Ril- ' me,Said tbs Narth American ' tingcrmnitteefor OqanizatiOHs an theQm5tionof pdlestine (IWX!) was an -immt.;urt pa&mr of the United Nations in the search for a solution of the PalestinequastiOn. SIKsaidthepastyearh%d~anu&erofevents which had creatsd a favanable climate in North pmnerica in suppart of the struggle ..of the Palestinian people, ahe intifadah, in its -, wascxntmmg Wib violeat replressivle policies incluiing the use of live anmunitim, CLZyel beatings, dtraYy arrests and deEXrutian. ?he Palestinian people was stnq~lirqwith courage and '061 to pneserve its identtity and culture and to exercise its inalienable rights in a free and imkpmWt te!rri*.

4. Ihe historic declaration of the state of mestine, recognized by over 90 axmtries, and the peace initiatives of the Palestine Liberat;l'on organization (pu)) had given a new meaning to the st;nrggle of the Palestinian people. These events mre folld by the opening of a dialogue between the PLO and the Guvmmmt of the Mted states as well as a growing suppmt far the early ccKnreningofanirrtematiolnapeace&~onthe~~eEast.%bere oould be no peace in the region as 1- as the m dlenied their riw. 5. ?he situation in the occupiad territorry was deterioratirq at an alarming rate, Eirs. Diallo w.?he "iron-fist" policy of coartirrued tobe carried aut against tha elderly, wxm and children, resulting in hmdreds of m,tharsands of in- and incdlculable suffering. It was hprtant that an end be prt to the intolerable acts of the Occupying Fwmr. Measures shaild be fund that help iraplemnt regolutians on gim the Palestinian people its inalienable rights. The palestine question could be resolved cnly thmugh a political settlement taking into account all aspeds of the -em and the -of all tbparties. 6. W. Zuhdi Labib Terzi, PeTmanent Ohemer of Palestine, read out a froan H.E. Mr. Yasser mat, Qlainnan of the 've ccpnaittee of the PKI. Rhe message is rqmdwed in annepr IV. % added- that the phmedwmkshop -2 -

70 H.E. Dr. Cl- Maksoul, peraoanerrt Oksemer of the League of Arab States, said that the wrk of Ncos had cmtrihted encffmwsly to raising tb COCISCioLISIlBB8 of world plblic opinim about the stcqgle of the Pal- people. one of thermajm tgsks of NGOS in the united states ms to exgose the between united states policy and public upinion on the Middle East. BwrehadbeenasligMiqmwmmt in united states policy but that lnms nut encqh. m challenge for xcb was towxkto inflmuniw states policy in suppart of the Palestinian peuple. 8, &&ss&yr HakscuI also said that it was not sufficient for the uhited states to criticize certam' actiunsof IsraelwhileatthesametimecoPldoning its occuptticm of swthern TekanrP.r, and tk kill- of Pal- people in the occupied =b.xy. lkLe palestine National caumil had ocIID3ittBd itself to a hm-Sxte solution of the Pal- ptmblem, but that cumoitnent &d not he final until Israsl clgreed to it. He called the united States to mediate a solutitm based m the *state prirdple. Iha intif- had pt in focus for the Israeli methe cutrage aamdttd by their in the occupied terrilxxy. Electians in the oacupied ten!-itozy pncaposed- by the Israeli Govwmmt cuald aaly be welcumd if they aimed at articulath~ thewill and aspirations of the Palestinian people and incluasd ttpe oarnrsning of the pmpcxed Internatid cmf- an the Middle East um3e.r the auspices of the united Natiaprs. 90 Ms. Jemm Butterfield, Chairmm of WEC, Said that at the Narth American WGO nmtingheld in- 1988 thase gathered had reaffirmed their support for thegualsoftheintifadahwhid~hadthenbee!ninitssew~thmoath.During thepasty@ar,therehadbeenin=Jreaseddca~ar and ceordma' tianwithin theinmmatl*OnalM;onmrmnityandthe- of the %ctim alert telw nebmrkll in America, a bi-weekly amfereme call of NGos aimed at enhancw the ability to respond to em ye^^ situations, swh as the Cl~ofInashAlUsra.Aninitiativedlmcted at the United States unpd the amenim~of open plblic hear- on the huuian rights situation in tM and ~aza. A secoad initiative was aimed at gatbring a quarter of a million signatures to to oongress and the Pihi- Hause calling far recognition of the m and the state of Palestine.

U). in North America had been myactive, krt the situation in the west Bank and Gaza was also exbremely serious and called for ewer greater efforts. Tbchallenge was to Mopstrategies for action that would ki.rq peace "not just an€! step closer, blt several miles closer". me %memmmt- in=exiletl of the people of Palestine had hunched a major peace initiative, while Israel oartirruad to pnsue a policy of farce. Also, while canada had begun to talkwith them, the unit& states emtimed topaurmarem three and a half billion bllars a year irrto Israel. It was important to make the synpoa3ium an 'ty to develop joint plans for don. Differences shnild be gut aside. TBe shared rage at injustice being done and a sense of ampassim for those wbare sufferirq shauld emurage effurts that help bring abaxt a just and lasting peace far the people of Palestine and the people of Israel. -3 -

m. Efattityat.lu. med, professar of literaturr?,Tel Ahv University; m. Bkuqamt m,a political amsultzmt from the Wted states.

(b) Manilizing oaneern and support for Palestinian medical and health services; (c) Hobilizing coacarn and support for the victim of pmitive violatims Ofthe~GeaKMCornrerrtia; d) Mobilizing coolcern and suppmt for Palestinian and their cmditims of labaur.

(b) El- initiatives and mobilizing plblic opinim; c) Hmani~ianand material aid pmjects;

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18. He said that the dtxre of war needed to be anmtaed with one of peace. 'Ihe hrture of Israelis and Palestinians was irrtertwined andtheysbuldtake thechanceofcreatingarealityofpeace. %bachievethis,newacbrs- ~;tod9te,Qi~Jewshadnatbeenheardfranasprenmtersof peace, and it was hprtant for Palestinians to learn the dynamics of Israeli Jewish society. 19- Elias Chacmr, a Melkite priest fronr Galilee, said that Palesthhns asa people had a link with Palestine and were discriminated against in Israel because thay refused to be 9xdLced to denalum' ticlnal entities". n'leywere daermed in Issael "shply Arab" - the oaly in the wld to be SO labelled. The dream" of Greater Israel had ended, he Said, but nbath drearmers", Israel and the Uniixd states, failed to recognize that '%light cannot forever be right1@. l[he only solution was tw states for tw peoples - an- Israel and the Palestinian state, which, as allies, might tramfarm the Middle East. He appealed to all peuple who Wurqq and thirsty far justic@ to Wrty [their] hands" with work to- make peace possible.

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implicaticms far Israel and the Wted states of the prroclaulatim of the state of Palestine, the pdlsstinianpeace initiative, and the intifadah"

20- Efafdi Abdul-Hadi, president, Palestinian Acadeau'c Society for the study of mtematl'anal Affairs, Said that the Palestinian people wwld accept eldans plrpposed by the Israeli cn the ccrndition that Israeli tmapwitMrzwfmtheooarpiedterritmy, thatthosesqqo&mg' themand Palestinian residents in Jerusalemwre not exrcludled fmthe electacral psxms, and that Palestinian mninees and democratic principles m a- He saidthe electoral propsal was a ploy by the Israeli Gavenmrent to abort the 0P.lgoing intifad8h and to create an alternative le&krshl'p to the m, which was the histarz'c and sole repnesentative of the Palestinian people. Ihe Palestinian peuple wwld not vote under threat and denial of its democratic rights. intifadah was changing the stam qw and building a new society. It had cpne thmugh several phases since it began in DeceslJ3er 1987, gzxwbq in stmrqth and mre pqxd.ar support. Among the intifadah's many acbieveamts wem the building of self-reliance and fcxrging Palestinian identity. Theirrtifadahhadenteredaseuxdchq$erwhichaxildseethe escalation of the Palestinian resistance andacbofself4efencetorlBetthe incmashgly Violent Israeli %rm-ffiStttpolicy, and could also witness a civil war b&ween Israeli settlers and- tmops. 22- Mattityahu Peled, Professur of Arabic literature at Tel AViv Vniversity, Said that the intifadah was a legitimab farm of non-violeat resistance to 22 years of Israeli occup&ion and enjoyed mrld-wide support and sympthy. men within Israel, public opinion showed an increasing aUmrmme tawards masures taken to deal with the situation. Israeli prime Minister Yitzhak shamir's -6 - -7 -

28- I@. Miwro L&iko&i r- oftheEumpeana3=onma' tingconanitteefor Ncm- Organizations op1 the Question of Palestine (mxls), Said that western Eumpean Gowrmab and the united States AdDainistratia here the- shnabling settlenmt problem that Ncos bloczb to a of the Middle East and hadto~toinflusproethepoliciesoftheseGovarrrmesrts. Heinformdthe Meeting that a seminar cn the role of foreign assistance in Palestinian Mw was to be held in Vima27 1989 organized by mxls, ICB and the society for AMstr0-m Relatims. Hs also annamcd that an internatid peace mardl to Fa- had been planned by FxrP and Exnapean pe%cegrwp froar 29 Novmber - the Dxtemational Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian Fwple - to 9 1989, the second anniversary of the intifalah. Ihe mamh, with the thenre #Two States, lbu Peoplesw, wmld start fran Tel AViv and end in . He Said lpoad participation was expecbd.

30- Rev.Ibrabun' Ayad, President of the Palestbm Ccmaittee for .. Qganizatkms, Said the wwirOa-fist"policy of Israeli Prime Yitzhak shamcir was creating three to four pdlestinian martyrs and 30 to 40 injured Palestinians a day, ?he Synposium akmd at reamcilirq the two peoples of tb Holy Land, whowre tired of war and its -, and loslged far the which dderadicate all dty, a peace that was true, spiritual and loving, Eaeh shauld live with equal dignity in their own independerrt state. unfortunately, life and love were ~9straaglycrushedww in the occupied terribry, wbm death and destrwb'mreigned. Israalwasusing means prohibited hy law, incl- gas bcanb6 which killed ynmg children and old peaple 9nd cahlsed miscarriages. There were nuw over 30,000 detainees I incluaing teemgem, and that number was increashq daily. uhivarsities, colleges and sdlaA.s had been clo6ed far ahKxst tkm full acadatu'c years and teachers wbtried to give lesscJns in their €xulls had been arrestsd and impocisonea. GaaTtlegs children wre being pychoogiically traumatized by this -1erable sitwticn. U. Rev. A@ said that Israeli Prhm Bhister ShaJair had declared that there would never be a Palestinian State, Also, the deportation of Palestinians had amtimed. ~unitedstates~tim-Israelto- those practices thmqh such actions as their recent veto of a security council resolution which supported thPalestinian cause. If the roles mversed, with victim the victimizer, - Israel as the and PdLeStine as the whole wldwould be horrified, he Said. -8 - -9 -

we ~lutelyreaffirm the internatianal amemsus tfrat the PZIC) is l2m sole and lqitimte -tive of tha Palestinian People. We affirm the inalienable rights of tim Palestinmn people in cxmfdty with all rele united Nations resolutians, including the right to sdf-d&xmimtion witbut artanvnl irrteafeaence, the right to establish an Palestinian state 0xI its own national texritnry under the 1- 'p of the pzjg, and the right of return. w8 resolutely reaffirm the internaticnalconsansusas-througfi Gmeral Asasmbly resolution 43/177 acknuwl- the pmclamticin of the State of palestineby the PaleatineNatiaIal cbuncil andmereaognitiontbraughaRthe Wted NatiaKs system of "palestine" in place of the designation mestine f,im organization". We the Palestinian peace initiative as a CarCrete ccmtrihtion to W esterblishmlnt of a just and lasting peace in tha man. We call upon the Gcrverrmaents of the United strrtes and Israel to accept this initiative by suppontingtheimediate~oftheintesnatianalpeaceccmf~in with General Assembly resolution 43/176. We also call upon the - 10 - - 11 -

We maqnize and express OUT concern far the mle that A,both de facb and de wce plays in the situation and tsea.tmeart of Palestinians insick and outsick the 1967 occupied terrilmry. State actions directed againstpalestinians m-=i-,suppoa;tedbY- United States aid to Israel in violatim of united states law, as made clear in the Wted States State -human rights repart an Israel andthe occupiedterrihxies, shaws clearly that serve6 as a buttsegs for cknial of the inalienable rights of theR&istml"anpeople. !misisofgrawingimnuliate~astherarmberof hlse c&i¶lloliti-, land and water amfiscaticms are increasing, both Within Israel and within UM occlpsied mtory, utxkr the lptext of suppgessian the irrtifadah.

We are also emurty+ that the CbudssiCpl on IIurman Rights has actively taken -upthei.ssue6afm~rights in the OaeLlpied tearitoUy and wuuld Wccane the SubcudsSim on the m'on of Di- 'on and F2Wtecb'on of Mtieeto up the issue of the inquality of Israeli citizenship that the Palestinian Arabmincrity within Israel. - 12 -

Workshp 1: Mbilizirrg cerneesn and support for Palestinian children. - 13 -

(a) Qsanizingtaursfarpalestinian Children in North hnerica;

we e%xmmqeNorth pmnenrican NoOS to lobby UNICEF, m, uM)lp, and Other united Natim bodies to irw=reaEce suppart and ccmpemtion with Palestinian mth and medicpil organizatian3. we further urge tb mrth Amerioan NQQS to lckbyt2MBiraJn~toinstructtheir missim to tbunited Nati. to support United Naticms humnitarian aid far palestine and to endarse the right of the state of Palestine to be on all united Nations bodies and Wies and especially WH3.

We also hnerican NQQS to demand cmgmssional and parliamentarian hearinqs an human rights violations in the occupied territmy includirrg with a particular focus on the Ilredical and health rights and needs of Palestinian people, with provision for exprt testhmy from Palestinian healthcarebmfkers andlmdical~.

3: Mobilizing c~~~cesnand support far the victim of pmitive violatims of the Fburth Geneva ctmmntion.

'IkLe participants in worksbp 3 recmmmi that NACC develop clllma#igns to to Kcas infmtim and action alerts for grass-roats activity -ooaaernirrj the violatias of Palestinian human rights within t?m folluwing initiatives: - 14 -

(a) Ihe adoption and qmsor&u'p by individuals and m of political prbmers, and/= families (especially in cases.. of house demlitions c?xpllsions/family remificaticm). reccemrend begnnmg with the follcncrirrg

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4: Ebbilizing a~lcernami support for Palestinian mrkms and their oanditions of labour.

(b) To stmqtbn their relaticmship withboth Palestinian and- American union mvemmts, wcrkhq on the questim of Palestinim trade unions - 15 -

participerrts in Woarkshop 5 recamnend that:

(ii) 'Ixlose artsick the United States.

iii) susfpeatea delegation itinerar ies: - 16 -

(v) pitfalls to be wided.

me hla&&cp also recx;ramends that NGos bark to set up:

(a) %SES of Israelis and ~alestiniansselected to mbilize and address the of specific c3cammities; for instance , an Israeli arrd a Palestinian wnlld&m6slIdmtmm Jewish ad- and tha Palestinian and Arab oomarplities, track uni- to adctiess tr24de unions, m oaganizers to addmss wmm's grouprs, and the like;

tmrksbp 6: Electaral initiatives and mobilizirrg plblic opinim.

We call upar Ncorth Amrican NDOS to launch and axmiimte local ballot and other political initiatives in 1990 cxmmxmUy thmu$mt Narth &erica, such as twinnh~cities, calling for a two-State soluth, linking Wted states aid to Israal to Ralestinianknrman arrd lqal rights, andother actim as appmpriah to the locale.

we urge tha mmbexs of CQmermdNoOs to beogaa actively ilxmlved in tkbe wrk of political parties of their *ice to pramte appmpriate foreign policy ChaIqeS lmmrds Israel and palestine. call upon the North American NlGo oomntnity to support the establistmaent of an NACX: Nmthhwtrican office to carry uut this pmgrame of action.

IXI order to facilitate the excbmge of infcmmtian amng m, this ~rei~~thaneedtopublishanNGoResaurcec;uide.wefurtherutye that the NMX -1- inch& a regular section dsacsihirrg the activities of North American NGQr; in influencing united states and Canadian Middle East policies. - 17 - - 18 - - 19 -

TAKING NUIE of the policy recently htmducd byDefe3l!ceMinisl= mbin€xuminganypalestinian franth8westBankarGaza frnaerrtering Israel unless he or she obtains a special ickmtity cevd which is refused to atry pexsa~with a record of political activity against the Occupation, effectively denying the right to work in Israel to a majority of the pqailatim in the wrest Bank and Gaza;

these violations of trade unions and workers' rights and recpsts that NAcx3 send a letter to Rqmentative me Hasnilm, Qlairman of - 20 -

HilBtEM the Palestinian people in Nmenber 1988 declared statehood for the state of Pale;

miEREhsthepalestinian people havle a rigtrt to self4etenum' timwhich includes a rightto statehood;

WmmS the unit& Ntitim GemXal Ascsemhly, in reaxpition of Israel's denial to palerrtinian peaple of its right to self-d&emma' tion, has called on all awntries to suspend military and ecMlcmic aid to Israel: WEREAS Chit& states Public W 94-329 prrohibits Ermvidirrg fdwaid to any o[xlrrtry where "a ems- perttern of gross violatims of intarnatiaral human rights" occurs am2 Israel's trea- of the Palestinian people cunstitxtes smh viobticm, as doanaenrted by the Mted states of State hnrwn rights repcirt issued in Fekuary 1989;

WHFJRFAS Israel allocates at least $150 million a,nnually for settle expansian in the ocarpied taxitory in violatim of the 1949 Geneva Qanrerrtion; - 21 -

of ~sraelatbpted in 1987 an official policy of using physical faroe to extract coarfessicms from Palestinians suspectad of seccuity violatims;

hiHmEJS Israel, as the mrld's sixth largest rrtu=lear IBwer, violates internaticml. law in its refusal to discloee or allaw nmitoring of its sbclcpile of nmlear weapcms at Dhma or to sign a non-pliferatim me, exacerbatingthe far

Vanunu wlm ciprgorsed to eld.the extemt of Israel's nmlear arsenal;

united states camrmmt ckvotes mare thm -fifth of its totdl foreign aid h4et to ths State of Israel (rougNy $4 billim arpaually), $700 per each Isrpleli citizen, while the per capita to inpcnrerishsa Bldc Africa has never been mare than $1 per person;

WHEtE?S unlike uther oaprhries receiving uhited states aid, Israel MVeseght grantS (Sb1985) and, UtiLiW Other COUntZl'86, Israel is mt mefar its allocation of funds dvedfmu the United states, 9ndthisunitedStateE; aid is the critical factor that enables Israel to maiRtain its Oacupatioa uf west Bank and ~azaand violation of Palestinian fnnaan ri*;

3. Calls on the United states cavenrment to reduce its aid to Israel by an amanrt equal ta the sum expnded by Israel to violate the hmmn rights of the mestinians, as dowmnbd by such relports as the united states Departmerrt of State's humn rights report on Israel isscled in Felnuary 1989; 4. Calls on the United States Gavenmrent to reduce its aid to Israel by anammurrtequaltathesuaa~byIsraelto~' Ansar 111: - 22 - - 23 -

Annex I11

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Inbmkti.Jerwish Rtace wa~(IJPU) c/o Mr. Janathan Bojarin c/o Deeaa IBn;witz 141 East 3rd St. (3D) 1002 N, Bratdfe Am New York, NY loo09 -, CA 95062 US.A. U.S.A.

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'Ibis year your annual synposirnn coincidee with the beginning of the mnmthofan Palestinian me'suprising, which is mare firm and resolute thn ever. By means of this upprising, our stnqylirg people affirm its &kxnuna' tim and resolve to defdits terri- and national and human dignity, by declaring that it holds fast to its identity and inalienable national rights in the blessed.. land of peilestins. (xp- pople also affinns its unitednatiamlwillby ' its Cbfiaxx!e and bmic bold resistance qaimst ths nircn-fist" of repression arganid officia termAsmand3a!cist~Cesaf~'on and tnrture carried cut it by ths Israeli OccupBtion auUxrities in an endeavwr to crush its vim mar uprising and erase and eliminate its identity and national rights. Now, since the Israeli'occupationauthoritieshavepmvedmeto subdue OUT people's mvoluticm and uprising hi&an- oocupied Rdestmi*an territoay by of military fm,the authcm'ties are tqiq tm dew that same end by means of suspect political pmpodls and plans, the latest ~thatprtfonwerrdbyYitzhakShamir,theprinreMinisterof -, calling far the holding of electims for the Palestinian paixiLation of the -ied terriw. - 26 -

medutyofmimunmginterna.. ti- peace and security in the wrld lmmsthattheinternational ccamumity as a whole, the Unit& Nations and all freedcm-, jusths= and peaceloving f- and cffganizations in the mld, have a reqmsibility to exert effective and palpable pressure on thE! Mted

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