The New York Times · 8 May 1980

CP-1980-018

Arafat Defends Ambush of Israeli Settlers in Hebron as Resistance to Occupation

Anthony Lewis

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Transcribed from the clipping

“Any occupied people have a right to fight invaders, comparing the situation of the Palestinians in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 to Americans fighting the British in the Revolutionary War, Algerians against the French and the European Resistance against the Nazis.”

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Anthony Lewis in Beirut, printing Arafat’s argument in full rather than in summary. The objection recorded here is to Resolution 242, which treated Palestinians only as refugees — a legal complaint about a noun.

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"Arafat Defends Ambush of Israeli Settlers in Hebron as Resistance to Occupation," The New York Times, 8 May 1980. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1980-018. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1980-018

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