Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le secrétaire Général, Honorables représentants de la Communauté internationale Je viens en ces lieux vous apporter le salut fraternel d’un pays de 274000 km², où sept millions d’enfants, de femmes et d’hommes, refusent désormais de mourir d’ignorance, de faim, de soif, tout en n’arrivant pas à vivre véritablement depuis un quart de siècle d’existence comme Etat souverain, siégeant à l’ONU.
Le peuple aime la liberté, le peuple aime la démocratie. Par conséquent, le peuple s’attaquera à tous les ennemis de la liberté et de la démocratie.
Conventional histories have counted only 100,000 Indian soldiers who were slaughtered in savage reprisals, but none have tallied the number of rebels and civilians killed by British forces desperate to impose order, claims Misra. The author says he was surprised to find that the “balance book of history” could not say how many Indians were killed in the aftermath of 1857. This is remarkable, he says, given that in an age of empires, nothing less than the fate of the world hung in the balance.
Publisher's note: I first met Issa Nakhleh more than fifteen years ago while he was still busily researching for his two volume "Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem". I learnt first hand of his personal history, a palestinian, a refugee, a man who had lost everything he had had. His house, his law office, his apartment house in Jerusalem and a banana plantation were, as he describes "usurped by the Zionists and Israeli war criminals ". A man's roots had been cut.
"Nothing was done in hiding," says Pinchas Wallerstein, director-general of the Yesha Council of settlements and a leading figure in the settlement project. "I'm not familiar with any [building] plans that were not the initiative of the Israeli government."
"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours . . . Everything we don't grab will go to them." %u2013 Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.
