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East Timor President Tells UN: “Only people still paying for Holocaust not of their making are the Palestinians”

12 March, 2010 - 04:51

When Nobel Laureate President Jose Ramos-Horta of Timor Leste addressed the UN Human Rights Council today, no could have predicted the shocking things he would say in the closing of his speech: 

The Palestinian tragedy began to unfold with the persecution of Jews in Europe, culminating with the Holocaust and the creation in 1949 of the State of Israel. And 60 years later the only people who are still paying for the legacies of a war and a Holocaust not of their making are the Palestinians.

For those in Palestine who have endured all forms of abuse but have refused to answer violence with violence, we bow to them. To those who out of desperation and anger have opted for violence, we urge them to learn with Mahatma Gandhi that there is a greater power than katiuska [sic] rockets and suicide bombings, and that is the power of non-violence. Civil disobedience and non-violence, more than rockets, will emotionally tire out the mighty Israeli army and wake up the conscience of the Israeli society to this abominable situation.

And Palestine will be free. And Israel will be free and finally at peace with itself.


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