Palestine dream for freedom and its wayforward.ppt

Palestine dream for freedom

1. Palestine..
Dream for freedom

3. •Nobel Laureate and Archbishop Desmund
Tutu went to Palestine. He stood in Jerusalem
on Christmas Day of 1989 and said before an
audience
"I am a black South African, and if I were to
change the names, a description of what is
happening in the Gaza Strip and the West
Bank could describe events in South Africa”

4. HSRC – 2007 Report: “Occupation, Colonialism,
Apartheid?”
•15 months research, 300 pages
•suggested originally in2007 by South African
jurist John Dugard, in his capacity as Special
Rapporteur to the United Nations Human Rights
Council, when he indicated that Israel practices
had assumed characteristics of colonialism and
apartheid

5. According to the report
•Israel has appropriated land and water in the OPT
•merged the Palestinian economy with Israel's
economy
•imposed a system of domination over Palestinians to
ensure their subjugation to these measures
•Israel has denied the indigenous population the right
to self-determination and
•indicated clear intention to assume sovereignty over
portions of its land and natural resources

6. Apartheid:
South African Past
Palestinian Present

8. Why Should Palestinians have a state?

9. •United Nation Security Council Resolution 242
(November 1967)
“...inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory
by war and the need to work for a just and
lasting peace in the Middle East in which
every State in the area can live in security..”

10. “..Affirms that the fulfilment of Charter principles requires the
establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which
should include the application of both the following principles:
•(i) Withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the
recent conflict;
•(ii) Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for
and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and
political independence of every State in the area and their right to live
in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or
acts of force.."

11. •United Nations General Assembly Resolution
3236 (November 1974):
“..Reaffirms 
the inalienable rights of the Palestinian
people in Palestine, including:
(a) The right to self-determination without external
interference;
(b) The right to national independence and
sovereignty “

12. •Israel’s admission to the UN:
The UN General Assembly Resolution 18 II
“sympathetic consideration to consider Israel
for admission”
Isn’t the Palestinian cause sympathetic to the
whole world?

13. •Already 128 countries worldwide recognize
the state of Palestine (75% of the world
population)

14. •The statehood proposal is a non-violent action

15. •Palestine has met all prerequisites to
statehood listed in the 1933 Montevideo
Convention and the UN membership
requirements.

16. •In April 2011, the IMF declared that
Palestinians are able to perform as a “well-
functioning state”

17. •The statehood proposal doesn’t violate any,
any, signed agreement

18. •The statehood proposal doesn’t delegitimize
the state of Israel

19. •Palestine supports entering into final peace
negotiation with Israel but as a sovereign
state this time

20. •Even if Americans veto the proposal, we can
reapply and reapply. The same happened with
Japan and Ireland. The application of these
states were consistently vetoed

21. •The only struggling nation in the world. In
struggle for more than 6 decades.

22. Act before it is too late

23. The green countries supporting the
Palestinian State

24. Justice will prevail no
matter what!!