كلمة الرئيس الفلسطيني محمود عباس أمام الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة تمهيداً للتصويت على مشروع قرار منح فلسطين صفة الدولة غير العضو المراقبة في الأمم المتحدة، باللغة العربية - أنقر هنا.
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Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, addresses the
UN General Assembly before the vote. 29 November 2012
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Excellencies, Ladies and
Gentlemen,
Palestine comes today to the United Nations General Assembly at a
time when it is still tending to its wounds and still burying its beloved
martyrs of children, women and men who have fallen victim to the latest Israeli
aggression, still searching for remnants of life amid the ruins of homes
destroyed by Israeli bombs on the Gaza Strip, wiping out entire families, their
men, women and children murdered along with their dreams, their hopes, their
future and their longing to live an ordinary life and to live in freedom and
peace.
Palestine comes today to the General Assembly because it believes in
peace and because its people, as proven in past days, are in desperate need of
it.
Palestine comes today to this prestigious international forum,
representative and protector of international legitimacy, reaffirming our
conviction that the international community now stands before the last chance
to save the two-State solution.
Palestine comes to you today at a defining moment regionally and
internationally, in order to reaffirm its presence and to try to protect the possibilities
and the foundations of a just peace that is deeply hoped for in our region.
Mr. President,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Israeli aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip has
confirmed once again the urgent and pressing need to end the Israeli occupation
and for our people to gain their freedom and independence. This aggression also confirms the
Israeli Government’s adherence to the policy of occupation, brute force and
war, which in turn obliges the international community to shoulder its responsibilities
towards the Palestinian people and towards peace.
I say with great pain and sorrow… there was certainly no one in the
world that required that tens of Palestinian children lose their lives in order
to reaffirm the above-mentioned facts.
There was no need for thousands of deadly raids and tons of explosives for
the world to be reminded that there is an occupation that must come to an end
and that there are a people that must be liberated. And, there was no need for a new, devastating war in order for
us to be aware of the absence of peace.
This is why we are here today.
Mr. President,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Palestinian people, who miraculously recovered from the ashes of
Al-Nakba of 1948, which was intended to extinguish their being and to expel
them in order to uproot and erase their presence, which was rooted in the
depths of their land and depths of history. In those dark days, when hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians were torn from their homes and displaced within and outside of
their homeland, thrown from their beautiful, embracing, prosperous country to refugee
camps in one of the most dreadful campaigns of ethnic cleansing and
dispossession in modern history.
In those dark days, our people had looked to the United Nations as a
beacon of hope and appealed for ending the injustice and for achieving justice
and peace, the realization of our rights, and our people still believe in this
and continue to wait.
This
is why we are here today.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
In the course of our long national struggle, our people have always
strived to ensure harmony and conformity between the goals and means of their
struggle and international law and spirit of the era in accordance with
prevailing realities and changes.
And, our people always have strived not to lose their humanity, their
highest, deeply-held moral values and their innovative abilities for survival, steadfastness,
creativity and hope, despite the horrors that befell them and continue befall
them today as a consequence of Al-Nakba and its horrors.
Despite the enormity and weight of this task, the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO), the sole, legitimate representative of the
Palestinian people and the constant leader of their revolution and struggle,
has consistently strived to achieve this harmony and conformity.
When the Palestine National Council decided in 1988 to pursue the
Palestinian peace initiative and adopted the Declaration of Independence, which
was based on resolution 181 (II) (29 November 1947), adopted by your august
body, it was in fact undertaking, under the leadership of the late President
Yasser Arafat, a historic, difficult and courageous decision that defined the
requirements for a historic reconciliation that would turn the page on war,
aggression and occupation.
This was not an easy matter. Yet, we had the courage and sense of
high responsibility to make the right decision to protect the higher national
interests of our people and to confirm our adherence to international
legitimacy, and it was a decision which in that same year was welcomed,
supported and blessed by this high body that is meeting today.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We have heard and you too have heard specifically over the past
months the incessant flood of Israeli threats in response to our peaceful,
political and diplomatic endeavor for Palestine to acquire non-member observer
State in the United Nations. And, you have surely witnessed how some of these
threats have been carried out in a barbaric and horrific manner just days ago
in the Gaza Strip.
We have not heard one word from any Israeli official expressing any
sincere concern to save the peace process. On the contrary, our people have witnessed, and continue to
witness, an unprecedented intensification of military assaults, the blockade,
settlement activities and ethnic cleansing, particularly in Occupied East
Jerusalem, and mass arrests, attacks by settlers and other practices by which
this Israeli occupation is becoming synonymous with an apartheid system of
colonial occupation, which institutionalizes the plague of racism and
entrenches hatred and incitement.
What permits the Israeli Government to blatantly continue with its
aggressive policies and the perpetration of war crimes stems from its
conviction that it is above the law and that it has immunity from
accountability and consequences.
This belief is bolstered by the failure by some to condemn and demand
the cessation of its violations and crimes and by position that equate the
victim and the executioner.
The moment has arrived for the world to say clearly: Enough of
aggression, settlements and occupation.
This is why we are here now.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We did not come here seeking to delegitimize a State established
years ago, and that is Israel; rather we came to affirm the legitimacy of the
State that must now achieve its independence, and that is Palestine. We did not come here to add further
complications to the peace process, which Israel’s policies have thrown into
the intensive care unit; rather we came to launch a final serious attempt to
achieve peace. Our endeavor is not
aimed at terminating what remains of the negotiations process, which has lost
its objective and credibility, but rather aimed at trying to breathe new life
into the negotiations and at setting a solid foundation for it based on the
terms of reference of the relevant international resolutions in order for the
negotiations to succeed.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
On behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization, I say: We will
not give up, we will not tire, and our determination will not wane and we will
continue to strive to achieve a just peace.
However, above all and after all, I affirm that our people will not
relinquish their inalienable national rights, as defined by United Nations
resolutions. And our people cling
to the right to defend themselves against aggression and occupation and they
will continue their popular, peaceful resistance and their epic steadfastness
and will continue to build on their land.
And, they will end the division and strengthen their national
unity. We will accept no less than
the independence of the State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital,
on all the Palestinian territory occupied in 1967, to live in peace and
security alongside the State of Israel, and a solution for the refugee issue on
the basis of resolution 194 (III), as per the operative part of the Arab Peace
Initiative.
Yet,
we must repeat here once again our warning: the window of opportunity is
narrowing and time is quickly running out. The rope of patience is shortening
and hope is withering. The
innocent lives that have been taken by Israeli bombs - more than 168 martyrs,
mostly children and women, including 12 members of one family, the Dalou
family, in Gaza - are a painful reminder to the world that this racist,
colonial occupation is making the two-State solution and the prospect for
realizing peace a very difficult choice, if not impossible.
It is time for action and the moment to
move forward.
This
is why we are here today.
Mr. President,
Ladies and Gentleman,
The world is being asked today to undertake a significant step in
the process of rectifying the unprecedented historical injustice inflicted on
the Palestinian people since Al-Nakba of 1948.
Every voice supporting our endeavor today is a most valuable voice
of courage, and every State that grants support today to Palestine’s request
for non-member observer State status is affirming its principled and moral
support for freedom and the rights of peoples and international law and peace.
Your support for our endeavor today will send a promising message -
to millions of Palestinians on the land of Palestine, in the refugee camps both
in the homeland and the Diaspora, and to the prisoners struggling for freedom
in Israel’s prisons - that justice is possible and that there is a reason to be
hopeful and that the peoples of the world do not accept the continuation of the
occupation.
This is why we are here today.
Your support for our endeavor today will give a reason for hope to a
people besieged by a racist, colonial occupation. Your support will confirm to our people that they are not
alone and their adherence to international law is never going to be a losing
proposition.
In our endeavor today to acquire non-member State status for
Palestine in the United Nations, we reaffirm that Palestine will always adhere
to and respect the Charter and resolutions of the United Nations and
international humanitarian law, uphold equality, guarantee civil liberties, uphold
the rule of law, promote democracy and pluralism, and uphold and protect the
rights of women.
As we promised our friends and our brothers and sisters, we will
continue to consult with them upon the approval of your esteemed body our request
to upgrade Palestine’s status. We
will act responsibly and positively in our next steps, and we will to work to
strengthen cooperation with the countries and peoples of the world for the sake
of a just peace.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Sixty-five years ago on this day, the United Nations General
Assembly adopted resolution 181 (II), which partitioned the land of historic
Palestine into two States and became the birth certificate for Israel.
Sixty-five years later and on the same day, which your esteemed body
has designated as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,
the General Assembly stands before a moral duty, which it must not hesitate to
undertake, and stands before a historic duty, which cannot endure further
delay, and before a practical duty to salvage the chances for peace, which is
urgent and cannot be postponed.
Mr. President,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth
certificate of the reality of the State of Palestine.
This is why in specific we are here today.
Thank you.
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