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ARAFAT CRITICIZES ISRAEL
Despite the debate over slavery, attention at the conference
focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the NGO Forum
accusing Israel of "systematic perpetration of racist crimes
including war crimes, acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing."
The declaration, adopted after voting by 3,000
non-governmental organizations in 44 regional caucuses, shocked
Jewish groups. The Israeli government delegation to the U.N.
conference blasted the NGO resolution as an incitement to hatred of
Jews.
"The decision of the conference of the NGOs adopted this
morning is outright incitement, whose only purpose is to
delegitimize the Jewish state and its people," said delegation
spokesman Noam Katz.
"(It) adds fuel to the attempts that are being made to
demonize Israel," he added.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who on Friday accused
Israel of ethnic cleansing by driving Palestinians from their homes
in the occupied territories, repeated the charge on Saturday.
"The ugliness of these Israeli racist policies and practices
against the Palestinian people has become manifest and obvious
during the Intifada," he said.
He was referring to the 11-month-old Palestinian uprising
against Israeli military occupation in which at least 548
Palestinians and 157 Israelis have been killed.
On Saturday the Palestinians accused Israel of assassinating
a senior official in a car blast in Gaza. Israel has denied
responsibility.
FINAL DECLARATION IN QUESTION
As the leaders spoke, conference committees worked behind
the scenes on the wording of a final U.N. declaration to be adopted
at the end of the eight-day summit.
The Arab League met Saturday morning to coordinate its
position on the declaration. Amr Mousa, Secretary-General of the
Arab League, said a section condemning Israel's treatment of the
Palestinians and the recognition of the Holocaust were both open to
negotiation.
"There are racist policies and practices by Israel and they
have to be addressed (just) as Israel wants us to address the
problem of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and so on, so its a
package."
The White House, which has called parts of a draft
declaration anti-Semitic, said American diplomats would leave the
conference if the provisions condemning Israel weren't removed.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the American civil rights leader,
announced Thursday that Arafat had agreed to lobby to have language
removed from the declaration that called Israel a racist state and
condemned Zionism as racism.
Zionism, the religious and philosophical underpinning of the
movement that founded Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people,
has also come under attack in street demonstrations.
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