Abstract

Palestine, Yes!

Yasir Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization is been accused of selling out of surrendering Palestinian rights to Israeli might, of betraying a historic mission to establish an independent Palestinian state and protect the rights of Palestinian refugees, and of forsaking Jerusalem, by the critics. The critics fail to recognize that the process itself will transform the existing dynamics. They presume that Israel three years from now will be the same as it is today and that the Palestinian situation will remain static. Yet a careful reading of the declaration shows that none of these charges are true. In fact, the Palestinian negotiators gave up none of their inalienable rights except one: the right to use armed resistance against Israel.