‘Palestine Solution’

Samir Salameh, Jacksonville

Transcribed from the clipping

“The Palestinian revolution has officially adopted the creation of a democratic, none-sectarian Palestine, where Christian, Jews and Moslems can live, work and worship without discrimination, as the ultimate objective of it’s liberation struggle. Establishment of a progressive open society for all the Palestinians is the only humanitarian and permanent solution to the problem. It certainly is superior to ‘throwing the Arabs to the desert’ or ‘throwing the Jews in the sea.’… The Palestinians have out grown their bitterness and prejudice in a relatively short time through armed struggle. A few years ago, discussing this proposal would have been considered as a complete ‘sell out’ or high treason… Annihilation of the Jews or the Palestinian exiles and the creation of an exclusive racist state in Palestine, be it Jewish, Christian or Moslem, is totally unacceptable, unworkable, and cannot last. The oppressed Palestine masses will fight and make all needed sacrifices to demolish the oppressor. The Israelis are greatly irritated by the idea of a democratic Palestine; it reveals the contradictions of Zionism. The adoption, by several significant progressive Jews of the new goal, scares world Zionism. The Zionists are stepping up their campaign to discredit the idea, especially among the Jews. Their effort has been in vain; the force of logic and the effect of years of presecution are opening the eyes of Jews and others in the world to the only permanent solution that will bring lasting peace and justice to Palestine.”

Context added by this archive

A reader’s letter, printed in full. Its spelling is the letter’s own throughout. This Samir Salameh is not the painter of the same name, and not the Samir Salameh who appears in the archive in 1996 as a bombing suspect’s brother; four different men of that name run through this material and none of them are linked here. Earliest record in the archive from 1970.

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"‘Palestine Solution’," Florida Times Union, 2 August 1970. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1970-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1970-001

Elsewhere in the archive

Glimpse At Words, Style Of Palestinian CommandosThe Blade · 11 October 1970 · the same year

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