The New York Times · 16 July 1982

CP-1982-045

Palestinians Tried to Avert War and Are Now Being Victimized

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“Approximately two million actually live under Israeli military rule in occupied West Bank, Gaza and Galilee. Israel is denying them their inalienable rights to self-determination and independence. The Palestinians are not Syrians or Jordanians. They are from Palestine.”

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A reader answers a Times editorial point by point, beginning with First: and including Galilee in the list of occupied places. Written in the summer of the Lebanon invasion, two months before Sabra and Shatila.

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"Palestinians Tried to Avert War and Are Now Being Victimized," The New York Times, 16 July 1982. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1982-045. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1982-045

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