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tion, but these reports also dealt
with the accountability of the
international community for
demanding the occupier to end
its occupation." He concluded by
stressing that this five-decade
occupation will not die from
aging because Israel has the
ability to maintain the status quo
indefinitely in the future in the
absence of international cooperation
and serious work, and this is
the price we pay for our inability
to confront the annexation and
settlement expansion over the
past fifty years.
In the same context, and in his
speech titled "The role of the
State of Palestine and Palestinian
diplomacy in strengthening international
solidarity with the Palestinian
people and confronting
annexation schemes," Ambassador
Ammar Hijazi, Assistant to the
Palestinian Minister of Foreign
Affairs, stressed the importance
and status of the Palestinian
cause and its interaction with
peoples and solidarity movements
all over the world despite
its retreat Doha: 22-10-2020 at the official level and
among governments due to international
changes and the position
of the US administration and its
attempts to undermine the legitimate
rights of the Palestinian
people. He stressed that official
efforts and the efforts of the Palestinian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
will continue at the legal and international
levels, including filing
cases before the International
Court of Justice and the Committee
on Racial Discrimination,
against the occupation government
and its actions in violation
of international law.
Furthermore, His Excellency Mr.
Mohamed Fayek, President of the
National Council for Human
Rights in the Arab Republic of
Egypt, indicated during his
speech at the webinar that it
might be too early to assess the
path of the Palestinian cause in
the context of the many variables
surrounding it by all parties, and
due to the international escalating
rejection of the peace project
imposed by Trump. However, he
noted, there are indications that
clarify the orientations of some of
the actors, reminding that President
Biden has begun his presidency
with a pledge to turn the
page of Trump and Obama.
He stressed that despite all the
changes that have occurred in the
Palestinian reality and the reality
of the region, Palestinian rights as
approved by the United Nations
will remain legitimate and inalienable,
including the right to establish
a sovereign state and the right
of return, and that the right to
resist the Israeli occupation
cannot be denied. It is also impossible
to achieve true peace in the
region without solving the Palestinian
cause in a just manner. This
is what the peoples of the entire
Arab nation believe in, and all of
them reject any derogation from
these rights.
Escalated international
rejection to Trump's
peace project
His Excellency concluded his
speech by referring to the Arab
position, saying that, in general,
this position may fall short of the
level it deserves in the face of
Israeli crimes against the Palestinian
people as a result of the
involvement of many of their countries
in crises, civil wars, armed
conflicts, or facing terrorist operations.
He added, "We are all
required to stand together and
remember the famous wisdom
"After your neighbor, comes you."
From the Japanese University of
Kyoto, the solidarity advocate
Floris de Graaf, a specialist in international
relations between Japan
and the Middle East, especially
Palestine, spoke about the significant
presence of the Palestinian
cause in Japanese society and
solidarity movements, reviewing
the most important forms of
solidarity stances carried out by
Japanese activists with the Palestinian
cause, including their
solidarity with Journalist Moath
Amarneh, during the occupation
aggression on the Gaza Strip,
when they demonstrated in front
of the Israeli embassy and the US
Consulate in the city of Osaka,
Japan.
In a working paper titled "A
human rights strategy to confront
the occupation," Dr. Ammar
Dweik, Director General of the
Palestinian Independent Commission
for Human Rights, the Board
of Grievances, stressed the need
to strengthen the human rights
discourse at the level of international
institutions and governments,
and the need for the Palestinian
national movement to develop
its human rights discourse in
the face of the occupation and its
oppressive measures against the
Palestinian people. He also called
upon the State of Palestine and
the security institutions to
respect their international obligations,
work to strengthen the
relationship with global solidarity
movements and movements
against colonialism and the new
colonialism, since these movements
call for social justice. In
addition, he stressed the need for
integration in the Palestinian
human rights discourse and the
legitimate struggle on the ground
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