The Daily Item · 21 December 1988

CP-1988-035

The plea was for us to bring back the message to the United States that the Palestinian people want to live in peace ... sharing the benefits, beauty and riches of that Holy Land.

Transcribed from the clipping

“The plea was for us to bring back the message to the United States that the Palestinian people want to live in peace… sharing the benefits, beauty and riches of that Holy Land.”

Context added by this archive

A pull quote set in a box beside the editorial on the same page (CP-1988-034). What the travellers were asked to carry back was not a demand but a description of what living there would look like. The verb the Palestinians are given is plea.

Cite this item

"The plea was for us to bring back the message to the United States that the Palestinian people want to live in peace ... sharing the benefits, beauty and riches of that Holy Land.," The Daily Item, 21 December 1988. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1988-035. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1988-035

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