Sunday, March 27, 2011

Hanan Ashrawi: "We deserve our freedom, we deserve our state"

'We deserve our freedom, we deserve our state

Sunday, March 27, 2011
Lauren Zumbach
SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

PLO spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi warned recently that failure to reach a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could "destroy the chance for peace everywhere."

Speaking Tuesday to students and faculty at Princeton University's McCosh Hall, Ashrawi argued that Arab regimes have used Palestine's occupation as an excuse to focus on militarization at the expense of development, suppressing democratic forces throughout the region.

"In the absence of any solution it is not just the Palestinians who will suffer, Israel will suffer as well," Ashrawi said. "If the official Israeli policy of biding time continues, they are sacrificing the strategic objective of peace for narrow short-term gains and doing the Israeli people great injustice," she said....READ MORE

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