On this day, in 1988, the voice of the late President Yasser Arafat resoundingly loudly, in the hall of the Pine Palace in Algiers, before the General Assembly of the United Nations and the Palestinian National Council at its nineteenth session, saying: "The National Council declares, in the name of God and in the name of the Palestinian Arab people, the establishment of a State of Palestine on our Palestinian land, with Jerusalem as its capital."
These words, written by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, and voiced by the voice of leader Arafat, declaring the beginning of a new phase of the conflict with the Zionist entity to establish the Palestinian right to freedom and independence and the establishment of the state, and the establishment of Jerusalem as its capital, moved the feelings of many countries of the world, and recognized more than Eighty countries were independent of Palestine, and the number subsequently rose to 137, according to the Palestinian Foreign Ministry.
They opened their doors to establish Palestinian embassies and representations on their territories.
The United Nations General Assembly voted on November 29, 2012 in favor of raising the level of Palestinian representation in the United Nations, after 138 countries voted in favor of the draft resolution, while nine opposed and 41 abstained.
Palestine became a non-member observer State of the United Nations.
Years later, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) was formed in 1994, taking over the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
These developments included a series of meetings and peace negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israeli occupier under the auspices of the United States and Europe, from the Madrid Conference held on 30 October 1991, sponsored by Moscow and Washington, to the initiative launched by US President Barack Obama on September 2, 2010. These included direct talks. In the White House between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but collapsed because of settlements.
Negotiations between the Palestinians and the occupation stopped at the end of April 2014 without achieving any significant results after months of talks because of the occupation´s refusal to stop settlements, accept the 1967 borders as the basis for negotiations, and release the old prisoners in the Israeli jails.
In spite of the Declaration of Independence, the occupation continues its crimes against the Palestinian people, and continues to settle and rob the Palestinian territories, and to practice racist policies, by continuing to build settlements, the annexation wall, expansion, and apartheid. Refusing to comply with international legitimacy.
The Declaration of Independence reads as follows:
In the name of of Allah the Merciful
On the land of heavenly messages to human beings, on the land of Palestine the Palestinian Arab people were born, grew and developed, and created their human and national existence through an organic relationship, which is indissoluble and uninterrupted between the people and the land and history.
With epic stability in space and time, the people of Palestine formulated their national identity, and rose their steadfastness in defending it to the level of the miracle.Although the charm of this ancient land and its vital location on the boundaries of the intertwined forces and civilizations raised aspirations and aspirations that led to depriving its people of the possibility of achieving Political independence, however, is the permanence of the people´s attachment to the land that gave the land its identity, and breathed into the people the spirit of the nation, inlaid with the dynasties of civilization, and multiculturalism, inspired by the texts of its spiritual and temporal heritage, the Palestinian Arab people throughout history continued to develop itself in the total unity between the land and man, and In the footsteps of the prophets that continue on this blessed land, the minaret of prayer praises the Creator.
From generation to generation, the Palestinian Arab people never ceased to defend their homeland, and our successive revolutions were a heroic embodiment of the will of national independence.
At a time when the modern world was formulating a new value system, the balance of local and global power excluded the Palestinian destiny from the general fate, and it became clear once again that justice alone does not follow the wheels of history.
Thus, the great Palestinian wound was opened to a paradox. The people who were deprived of independence and whose country was occupied by a new kind were exposed to the attempt to generalize the lie that ´Palestine is a land without a people´. The League of Nations of 1919, and the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, recognized that the Palestinian Arab people, like other Arab peoples, which had been separated from the Ottoman Empire, was a free and independent people.
Despite the historical injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people by displacing them and depriving them of their right to self-determination, following the General Assembly Resolution 181 in 1947, which divided Palestine into two Arab and Jewish states, this resolution still provides conditions for international legitimacy guaranteeing the right of the Palestinian Arab people to sovereignty and national independence. .
The Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and parts of Arab land, the uprooting and displacement of the majority of Palestinians from their homes by the force of organized terrorism, and subjecting the rest of them to occupation, oppression and destruction of their national life, is a flagrant violation of the principles of legitimacy, the Charter of the United Nations and its resolutions recognizing the national rights of the Palestinian Arab people. , Including the right of return, the right to self-determination, independence and sovereignty over the homeland.
In the heart of the homeland and in its fences, in the near and far exiles, the Palestinian Arab people have not lost their firm belief in their right to return, nor their firm belief in their right to independence. The occupation, massacres and displacement have not been able to expel the Palestinian from his consciousness and from himself. The United Nations, its institutions and other regional and international organizations. On the basis of faith in the inalienable rights, on the basis of the Arab national consensus, and on the basis of international legitimacy, the PLO led the battles of its great people, fused in its optimal national unity, and its legendary steadfastness in the face of massacres and siege at home and abroad.
The epic of the Palestinian resistance was manifested in the Arab consciousness and in the global consciousness as one of the most prominent national liberation movements of this era.
The great popular uprising, escalating in the occupied territory with the legendary steadfastness in the camps inside and outside the homeland, raised the human understanding of the Palestinian reality and the Palestinian national rights to a higher level of assimilation and maturity, and concealed the conclusion of a full phase of forgery and inactivity of conscience, and besieged the official Israeli mentality Which addicted to superstition and terrorism in denying the Palestinian presence.
With the Intifada, and the revolutionary accumulation of struggle for all the sites of the revolution, the Palestinian time is one of the moments of a historic turning point and once again the Palestinian Arab people reaffirm their inalienable rights and their exercise on their Palestinian land.
Based on the natural, historical and legal right of the Palestinian Arab people in their homeland Palestine, the sacrifices of successive generations in defense of the freedom and independence of their homeland; Political independence and sovereignty over its territory;
In the name of God and in the name of the Palestinian Arab people, the National Council declares the establishment of a State of Palestine on our Palestinian land with Jerusalem as its capital.
The State of Palestine is for the Palestinians wherever they are. And on social justice, equality and non-discrimination in public rights on the basis of race, religion, color, or between women and men, under a constitution that secures the rule of law and an independent judiciary and on the full fulfillment of the spiritual and cultural heritage of Palestine in tolerance Tolerant coexistence between religions over the centuries.
The State of Palestine is an Arab State, an integral part of the Arab nation; from its heritage and civilization, and from its present ambition to achieve its goals of liberation, development, democracy and unity. Reaffirming its commitment to the Charter of the League of Arab States and its determination to promote joint Arab action;
The State of Palestine declares its commitment to the principles and objectives of the United Nations, to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as to the principles and policy of non-alignment.
Committed to the principles of peaceful coexistence, the State of Palestine is committed to the principles of peaceful coexistence; Tomorrow carries only the safety of those who have amended or persevered to justice.
In the context of its struggle for peace in the land of love and peace, the State of Palestine calls upon the United Nations, which has a special responsibility towards the Palestinian Arab people and its homeland, and calls upon the peoples of the world and their peace-loving nations to help them achieve their goals, put an end to the tragedy of their people, provide security for them, and act. To end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
It also knows in this regard that it believes in the peaceful settlement of international and regional problems, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and its resolutions, and that it rejects the threat of force, violence or terrorism, or its use against the territorial integrity and political independence, or the integrity of any other State, without prejudice to its natural right. In defending its territory and independence.
On this fifteenth day of November 15th, 1988, we stand on the threshold of a new era; Coming from the glow of the blessed intifada, from the epic of the steadfast in the camps, in the diaspora and in the immigrants, and from the campaign of the Freedom Brigade: our children, our elders and our youth, our captives, detainees and wounded, who are stationed on the Holy Land, in every camp, in every village, in every city. The courageous Palestinian woman is the guardian of our survival and our life, the guard of our constant fire, and we pledge the lives of our righteous martyrs, the masses of our Palestinian Arab people, our Arab nation, and all the free and honorable people in the world, to continue the struggle for the evacuation of the occupation, and to establish sovereignty and independence.
