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On 2024-05-17 9:41 p.m., NefeshBarYochai wrote:
> [ Editor’s Note: The following text was prepared as a speech to
> present to the Global Anti-Apartheid Conference on Palestine held in
> Johannesburg, South Africa on May 10-12, 2024. ]
>
> Dear Friends in South Africa,
>
> I have the honor to address you today. As millions of Palestinians, we
> have the greatest gratitude and admiration for South Africa, which
> among 193 UN member states, was the only one to stand before the
> International Court of Justice and charge Israel with the heinous
> crime of Genocide. South Africa, like us, knows the meaning of
> Apartheid, colonization, ethnic cleansing and erasure of a nation from
> its homeland.
>
> We all remember what Nelson Mandela said, “Our freedom is incomplete
> without the freedom of Palestinians”.
>
> There are many common features of our histories.
>
> The Israeli Genocide in Gaza is deeply rooted and well planned for
> more than a century. You heard the myth propagated in Europe a century
> ago that Palestine was a land without people. It turned out to be a
> Zionist plan to make it so, a land without a people, to empty it, to
> expel its people and kill them.  In 1940, Yousef Weitz, the Zionist
> colonist under the British Mandate, declared, before Israel was
> declared,  that “not one [Palestinian] village” will remain in
> Palestine.  That was the plan for Al Nakba
>
> In 1948, 530 cities and villages were attacked and depopulated by a
> Zionist European army of 120,000 soldiers in 9 brigades which carried
> out 31 military operations and committed 90 massacres, occupied 78% of
> Palestine. They made its people refugees till to today. They are now 9
> million Palestinian refugees.
>
> The hypocritical West cries that the hostages must return home. They
> send bombs to kill, they cast veto to kill international law, they
> prevent entry of food and medicine, they aid and abet total
> destruction of Gaza.
>
>   All this is in order to release captured East European settlers “to
> return home”.
>
> I fully agree that all hostages must be freed to return home.
>
> But who are the real hostages?
>
> They are two million Palestinian refugees in Gaza Concentration Camp,
> from 247 towns and villages in southern Palestine expelled by Israel
> in 1948, through dozens of massacres. They are crammed in a
> concentration camp called Gaza Strip at a density of 8000 persons/km2.
> Its area is 1.3% of Palestine, or 365 km2. Their homes are in the
> southern district of Palestine, which is 12,500 km2.
>
> Who occupies their home now?
>
> East European settlers from Romania, Poland, Ukraine and Russia. Their
> number is only 150,000, at a density of only 7 persons/km2, one
> thousand times less than the owners of the land, the refugees in Gaza.
>
> So, who are the real hostages?
>
> Are they the 150 European settlers held in Gaza for 200 days?
>
> Or, are they the two million Palestinian refugees held in Gaza camps
> who are attacked by land, air and sea and blockaded for 76 years, or
> 27,000 days?
>
> I ask you. who are the true hostages?
>
> I maintain without reservation: All hostages should be free to return
> home. Palestinians to Palestine and Settlers with foreign passports to
> wherever they want to go.
>
> For 76 years, the Palestinians never stopped claiming their Right to
> Return home.
>
> The UN resolution number 194 calling for the Right of Return has been
> affirmed by the UN more than 130 times, the longest in UN history.
>
> International law and a myriad of UN conventions support the Right of
> Return.
>
> Shall I tell you some of these?
>
> Fourth Geneva Convention art 4. The Universal Declaration of Human
> Rights art 8 and 13. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal
> Court, art 7 and 8. The International Convention of the Elimination of
> All Forms of Racial Discrimination, art 5 and 6. … and many more.
>
> Why are the Palestinian still not allowed to return home?
>
> Because the original perpetrator of the crime and his cohorts are
> still doing it. These are the Western powers which created Israel,
> which recently vetoed the ceasefire resolutions three times. They are
> still supplying Israel with bombs to kill and political protection.
>
> The original crime is still going on.
>
> In the face of all this, the Palestinians are defiant and resolute.
> They have no intention of giving up their Right of Return. They do not
> want to remain refugees forever.
>
> So we have a duty: to plan for their Return.
>
> First, we see who and where the refugees are.
>
> Next, we see who occupies their land in Israel?
>
> We made a detailed study, village by village, city by city, to find
> how many Jews live in Palestinian lands and where.
>
> We found a startling result:
>
> There are 246 Palestinian village lands which have no Jews today.
>
> There are 272 village lands which have few Jews, less than 5000.
>
> So, if we now repopulate Palestinian villages by the return of the
> refugees, we do not find any appreciable problem of Jewish
> displacement.
>
> In Galilee, the Little Triangle in the center and in Beer Sheba, there
> is already a sizable Palestinian population, ready to welcome their
> kith and kin.
>
> Then, where are the Jews in Israel?
>
> Generally, Jews live in 924 listed localities with a total population
> of 5,509,778 (year 2020) within the armistice line of 1949. But this
> large number may be misleading. Only 14 of them have a population of
> over 100,000; 12 have a population between 50 and 100,000, and 29
> localities between 20 and 50,000.
>
> That means that 87% of Jews live in only 55 localities, or five
> percent of the total number of localities. The area they occupy is
> 1,400 km2 or 6% of Israel’s area.
>
> The conclusion? The return is feasible and of course legal. To
> Palestinians, it is also sacred and inevitable.
>
> We can plan the return of the refugees from their camps. We know
> exactly where they come from. The route to return home takes from 15
> minutes to 45 minutes and it is never longer than 45 km. In Gaza they
> do not need busses, they can simply walk home.
>
> When they arrive home, they will find the debris of their destroyed
> homes. The debris is covered by the trees planted by the Jewish
> National Fund to hide the crime.
>
> Now they can start rebuilding their homes.
>
> We gave this task to young Palestinian architects as their graduating
> project. We hold an annual competition among them, now in its 8th
> year. The competition is judged by international jury in London.
>
> So far 270 young Palestinian architects participated in the
> reconstruction of 60 villages, distributed all over Palestine.
>
> Once again, the young people are leading the way to liberation.
>
> Justice will be made at last.
>
> But all this needs the implementation of one basic principle.  This
> principle is essential, just, non-negotiable and inevitable. It is the
> abolishment of Zionism and all its components: war crimes,
> dispossession, occupation, Apartheid, racism, discrimination AND
> GENOCIDE.
>
> After the passage of 76 years, we Palestinians never lost the
> determination to return home. As you see, the Right of Return is
> sacred to all Palestinians, its legal in every chapter of
> international and it is feasible and surely inevitable.
>
> Therefore, I call upon this august assembly here today to do all they
> can, by any means, to come to the aid of Palestine.
>
> To stop immediately the Genocide of Gaza
>
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