Arab-Israel 'battle' at KU
By RICK PENDERGRASS Kansan Staff Writer
A violent verbal confrontation between Arabs and Israelis was narrowly avoided last night as bitter argument and name-calling
"They base their presence in Palestine from the fact that they were there for a while 2,000 years ago.
Occupied by everyone
Occupied by everyone "If everyone who has been there thinks they are entitled to call Palestine their home, why
"The state of Israel has been utilized to insure the colonial designs of Britain and France," he said.
"It is because of this that Israel is a ghetto in an Arab sea!" Hasan exclaimed. During his speech, the audience was
peaceful coexistence, as long as they could have their land back.
Shouts and name-calling
The rest of the meeting proceeded with intervals of shouting and name-calling between the Jewish and Arab students. At one point, a student carrying a sign with the peace symbol superimposed over the star of David shouted a derogatory remark pertaining to Hasan's intellect.
resulted from a speech given by a Palestinian commando.
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Saadat Hasan, director of the Palestinian freedom movement in the United States, spoke before more than 100 persons last night in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
Palestinian commando faces friends and foes in confrontation
At the door of the room, members of KU Hillel, supporting Israel in the Middle East war, carried signs showing their support, and distributed flyers charging Palestinians with atrocities.
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Hasan's topic, "Why a War of Liberation" dealt with the Israeli occupation of Palestine sine 1946.
At the same time, Arab students carried signs and distributed literature in support of the Palestinian movement.
In his speech, Hasan charged Israel with racism, colonialism military occupation and atrocities.
Explaining Arab guerrilla attacks on Israeli settlements, Hasan said, "We want only to liberate our homeland from the menace of alien occupation.
"The Zionists have only one goal in mind, to disposess, uproot and demoralize the people of Palestine," he said.
Hasan maintains the Jews have no right to be in Palestine.
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He said the land now occupied by Israel is 94 per cent owned by Palestinian refugees. At that point, an unidentified man in the audience jumped from his seat and shouted, "That's a lie!"
aren't the Russians, the Turks,
even the British occupying
Palestine since they have all been
there at one time or another?"
he asked.
He described the present day Jew as a European who accepts Judaism as a faith rather than a Europeanized Hebrew.
Speaking in general of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Hasan said the problem of the people of Palestine is a separate problem in itself which comes before the problem of the Arab conflict with Israel.
Hasan continually stressed his wish for peaceful coexistence in a non-racial society, "It is not an Arab-Jewish conflict, it was not, and I hope it never will be."
Hasan argued that the state of Israel was installed by European powers to divide and separate the Arab world.
Several of the Arab students shouted back at him to sit down and shut up and wait until he was called upon.
Ghetto in an Arab sea
He added that the conflict is not a religious issue. "Our opposition would be the same to the Moslem Turks or Christians from the states of Kansas and Missouri," he said.
silent and attentive, but when a question-answer period followed the speech, tempers flared among the Arab and Jewish students in the room.
Asked what he thought the situation would be in the next 10 years, Hasan said, "Though I come from the land of the prophets, I do not happen to be a prophet."
One student asked Hasan what would happen to the Israelis in Palestine if his forces succeeded in regaining the country, Hasan replied that the Palestinians would be willing to live in
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A general commotion prevailed until Jay Barrish, Kansas City, Mo. graduate student, chairman of the Minority Opinions Forum, called for order.
At 9:30 p.m., Barrish interrupted the questioning to announce the end of the session. As the crowd was leaving, one Arab student announced the question and answer period would be continued at the Wesley Foundation.
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