the latest article from www.xpis.ps The PA is cheating the Palestinian people By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine 16 November, 2008 With fanfare, fireworks, military parades and a lot of rhetorical overindulgence, the American-backed Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas has been celebrating the 20th anniversary of the so-called "Independence Day." In 1988, the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who, too, had a hard time distinguishing reality from fiction, declared Palestine "an independent state," although he knew well, as did the rest of the world, that a country thoroughly occupied and savaged by a Nazi-like foreign power can't be truly independent, let alone sovereign, until it is fully liberated from the Jaws and claws of the foreign occupiers. That was the same Arafat who in the mid 1990s toured the West Bank using his Egyptian-donated Russian-made helicopter, declaring one city after the other "liberated, liberated, liberated." (The two helicopters, dubbed by Israel as the Palestinian air-force were later destroyed by the Israeli air force).......read more, go to www.xpis.ps
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