By Roee Nahmias
23:17 , 03.18.08
Courtesy Of: Ynet
"I say to Israel, that history does not tell us that the occupation will last forever," Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Tuesday night during the speech he gave in honor of the prophet Muhammad's birthday.
Mubarak added that "Egypt is continuing its efforts to achieve a lull in violence between Israeli and the Palestinians."
He called on Israel to "lift the siege of Gaza, open the border crossings, ease the suffering of the citizens of the Palestinian territories, and enable the continuation of peace talks.
"Peace in the area cannot be achieved without an agreement on a just solution for the Palestinian problem," Mubarak added.
Addressing Israel, he said: "Security for your people will not be achieved through collective punishment, aggressiveness, invasion, siege, blockades and the construction of settlements."
"At the heart of the Palestinian problem is the termination of the occupation, which will end the suffering of the Palestinian people and help them to attain their legitimate ambitions of erecting an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital," Mubarak added.
"I say to the Palestinian people – make this your first priority and unify your forces.
NOTE: The following video was not part of the above article, but was independently added by me.
How Israeli Occupation Creates Palestinian Sucide Bombers
Noam Chomsky and israeli speakers speaks about the brutal israeli occupation
Let us read what Pappe said about the zionist ethnic cleansing to the palestinians with NUMBERS and facts.
Pappe is an Israeli historian and a senior lecturer at Haifa University, has written a superb account of the Israeli expulsion of the Palestinians from their land in 1948.
He says that between 30 March and 15 May 1948, i.e. before any Arab government intervened, Israeli forces seized 200 villages and expelled 250,000 Palestinians.
The Israeli leadership stated, "The principal objective of the operation is the destruction of Arab villages ... the eviction of the villagers."
On 9 April, Israeli forces massacred 93 people, including 30 babies, at Deir Yassin. In Haifa, the Israeli commander ordered, "Kill any Arab you encounter."
Overall, the Zionist forces uprooted more than half Palestine's population, 800,000 people, destroyed 531 villages and emptied eleven urban neighbourhoods of their inhabitants.
Pappe concludes that this was "a clear-cut case of an ethnic cleansing operation, regarded under international law today as a crime against humanity."
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