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Statements
Statement By `The Global Palestine Right of Return Coalition'
Regarding Ziyad al-Assali's Statements on the Right of Return
19/03/2005
The Global Palestine Right of Return Coalition (and its constituent
organizations in historic Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Europe
and North America, including Al-Awda), and in conjunction with the
Right of Return Congress and the listed signatory popular
organizations and committees representing various Palestinian refugee
communities, join the Arab-American community in declaring that
various statements and false representations by the president of the
Washington-based "American Task Force on Palestine" (ATFP) Dr. Ziad
Asali nullifying the Palestinian right to return and demeaning the
Palestinian and Arab people are reprehensible and entirely outside the
consensus of our people.
The Right of Return is an inalienable right affirmed by the
international community annually since 1948. No single person, group
or government have the authority or mandate to forfeit this individual
and national right.
In reality, voices such as Asali's are part of a larger concerted
effort to introduce a false veneer of moderation as a replacement for
the legitimate inalienable rights of the Palestinian and Arab people,
represented by their right to return, sovereignty and self-determination.
Through organizations like ATFP, Asali has gone even beyond the Geneva
Accords, the Nusseibeh-Ayalon Agreement and other such attempts that
violate fundamental, inalienable and natural rights that are enshrined
in international law. From under the garb of hollow US
democratization, Asali has in effect been diligently advancing the
neo-conservative plan for the "New Middle East", where nations and
people are reconstituted against their will.
Of particular concern is the concerted attempt by Asali and a few
others to normalize efforts leading to self-defeat and the
nullification of the right to return. Asali made a statement to
Forward recently that "we (Palestinians) must now separate the right
from the return, " and that "there is really nothing to return to. It
is Israel now". Instantly Asali became a celebrity in Zionist circles.
Dr. Asali is free to forfeit his right to return to his home in
Jerusalem, but he has no right to dismiss, hurt or forfeit the rights
of 6 million Palestinian refugees.
Asali's position is consistent with the Bush administration's
political construct and is based on the erroneous notion that
Palestinian refugees will merely accept dictates from others after
decades of struggle. In reality, the Palestinians people, particularly
the refugee and exiled communities worldwide, are the sole makers of
their destiny through their own grassroots participatory institutions
and cumulative political consensus produced by decades in struggle.
These institutions have collectively made it clear that the individual
and collective right to return is a fundamental prerequisite for any
peace, as guaranteed by international law, and will not be compromised
nor offered away.
As a reflection of the Bush administration's policies against a
targeted community, Asali, not unlike Fouad Ajami, by design or
default, seems to have taken on the task of trying to fracture
consensus and, through mockery, instill in the community a subservient
value of self. Yet, as history continues to demonstrate, such a voice!
will always remain an intruder threatening the well-being and
cohesiveness of their people and communities throughout the world.
Asali does not represent the aspirations of our people or the wide
base of the Arab American community despite his attempts to claim the
contrary. He remains outside the overwhelming consensus and the
stipulations of international law.
All such detractors of the natural and legitimate Right of Return have
failed miserably in their attempts to dismantle human rights. The
Palestinian people have repeatedly demonstrated for nearly 57 years
that they are determined to exercise their Right of Return. In this
they are supported by all people of good and free conscience. No doubt
justice will prevail.
Signatories, [The following signatories represent the overwhelming
majority of the Palestinian right of return movement worldwide and a
great sector of the Palestinian people.]
*Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, North America
*The Global Palestine Right of Return Coalition, including:
Right of Return Committee-Denmark
Right of Return Committee-Sweden
Right of Return Committee-Netherlands
Arab Culture Society--Poland
Palestinian Community - France
Right of Return Committee - Germany
Al-Awda, United Kingdom
*The Palestinian Right of Return Congress (Palestine, Lebanon, Syria,
Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco, Europe, North America)
*BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee
Rights--Palestine
*European Confederation for the Right of Return (Germany, France,
Denmark,
Holland, Poland, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom and Italy)
*Aidoun Group-Syria
*Aidoun Group-Lebanon
*The Higher Committee for the Defense of the Right of Return--Jordan
*Fateh Youth Movement-Province! of Bethlehem--Palestine
*Families of Deportees of the Church of the Nativity-Palestine
*The Vocational Training Association-Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Palestine
*Dheisheh Philanthropic Association-Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Palestine
*Popular Committee-Al-Izza Refugee Camp, Beit Jibreen, Palestine
*Union of Women Activity Centers-West Bank refugee camps, Palestine
*Union of Youth Social Centers-Palestine
*Committee for the Defense of the Right of Return-Balata Refugee Camp,
Palestine
*Yafa Cultural Center-Balata Refugee Camp, Palestine
*Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally
Displaced-Shafa
Amer, Palestine
*Popular Committee-Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Palestine
*Popular Service Committees (PLO) -West Bank refugee camps, Palestine
*Popular Coalition for the Defense of the Right of Return-Palestine
*Beit Awla Cultural Center-Hebron, Palestine
*Beit Awla Municipality-Hebron, Palestine, Palestine
*Fateh Movement-Beit Aw! la, Hebron, Palestine
*Beit Awla's Women Club-Hebron, Palestine
*Beit Jibreen Association-Adhna, Hebron, Palestine
*Association of Residents of Villages and towns Destroyed and Occupied in
1948-Ramallah Province, Palestine
*Coordinating Committee for West Bank Vocational Training Associations in
the West Bank-Palestine
*Gaza Popular Committees, Executive Office-Gaza Strip, Palestine
*Committee for the Defense of the Right of Return-Ramallah Province,
Palestine
*Popular Committee for the Defense of the Right of Return-Nablus,
Palestine
*Yazour Philanthropic Association-Nablus, Palestine
*Kafar Saba Philanthropic Association-Nablus, Palestine
*Palestinian Return Center-Nablus, Palestine
*Hawaa' Cultural Center-Nablus, Palestine
*Popular Services Committee of Dheisheh Refugee Camp -Bethlehem, Palestine
*Popular Services Committee of 'Aida Refugee Camp-Bethlehem, Palestine
*Laji' Center/Return is the Key-'Aida Refugee Camp, Beth! lehem, Palestine
*The Coordination Forum of NGOs Working Among the Palestinian
Community-Lebanon
*Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts/Al-Jana--Lebanon
*Association Najdeh--Lebanon
*Health Care Society--Lebanon
*KG Resource & Training Center --Lebanon
*Palestine Martyrs Works Society/Samed--Lebanon
*Association for the Development of Palestinian Camps (Ina'ash)--Lebanon
*Ghassan Kanafani Cultural Foundation--Lebanon
*Handicapped Social Association--Lebanon
*National Association for Social Medical Care & Vocational
Training--Lebanon
*National Association for Vocational Training and Social Services--Lebanon
*National Foundation for Health, Social and Educational Services--Lebanon
*National Institution for Social Care & Vocational Training--Lebanon
*Palestinian Arab Women League--Lebanon
*Popular Aid for Relief and Development--Lebanon
*Source: http://www.aljazeerah.info, March 17, 2005.
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