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Wednesday, April 9,1980
University Daily Kansan
Israeli Settlements: OBSTACLE TO PEACE
The issues that block the way to a just and lasting peace in the strategic Middle East are very crucial:
- 125 illegal Israeli settlements established on occupied territories in violation of human rights and international law.
- Continued denial of the Palestinian people's inalienable right to return to their homes and property in their ancestral land.
- An anachronistic settler-colonialism which confiscates and annexes land, in pursuance of an expansionist policy, buttressed by words and deeds.
“... we believe that all of these settlements are contrary to international law and that therefore they should not exist. ... With respect to the West Bank, we have indicated previously that we believe that there should be a homeland for the Palestinians . . . we believe that the settlement activity, including the construction and the new activities that are concerned, does create an obstacle to peace . . .”
Sec. of State Cyrus Vance
News Conference
Washington, D.C.
Feb. 10, 1978
" . . . That position is and has been that we believe these settlements to be an obstacle to peace and contrary to international law. We also believe that prospects for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East will be enhanced if such settlement activity is stopped."
HOWEVER . . .
White House Press Secretary Jody Powell
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Feb. 14, 1978
MAP NO. 2966 REV.1 UNITED NATIONS
NOVEMBER 1978
"Irael is a country without borders. No two people in Israel or abroad agree on the borders of Israel. What we have is where Jewish people have settled. The only solid thing is that in the last eighty years the Jewish people have never willingly given up a settlement. The people feel that by coming here they have made this the border."
Vebuda Harel,
A leader of the settlers of the Golan
Heights.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 31 August, 1975
"... I add now that the state of Israel has been established in only a portion of the land of Israel."
David Ben Gurion
REBIRTH AND DESTINY OF ISRAEL
N.Y. Philosophical Library, 1954
"Irael will build more settlements on the West Bank of the Jordan River where no Palestinian state will ever arise."
Menachem Begin
NEW YORK POST
Dec. 30, 1978
ISRAEL'S POLICIES HAVE BEEN SOWING THE SEEDS OF ENDLESS VIOLENCE AND CONFLICT, THREATENING THE PEACE AND SECURITY OF THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
Come to the Lecture by Dr. Hassan Abdul Rahman
member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's delegation to the United Nations
Friday, April 11th 8:00 P.M. Forum Room Kansas Union
Muslim Students Association Kansas University