Thursday, 15 July 2010
WILLIAM K. LANGFAN
Member of the Board of Directors
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
- FAX # (561) 533-5118
July 13, 2010
Dear Editor:
Mr. Kristof in his New York Times July 11, 2010 column suggests the Palestinian “non-violent” protests as a procedure to help solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He quotes Mr. Morar, a Palestinian who had been in an Israeli prison, that “We can show that we are the victims, that we are not against the Jews but against occupation.”
Mr. Kristof appears to be oblivious to the fact that “occupation” as defined by the 1968 amended 1964 Palestinian Covenant (Palestinian Charter), is Israel’s “occupation” of Israel. The original Palestinian Charter was created three years before Israel controlled the West Bank. This Charter clearly declares that the very establishment of Israel is illegal and void and that armed resistance must be utilized until Israel is entirely destroyed.
The contents of the Palestinian Charter remains the basic thinking (legal blueprint) of the Palestinian leadership irrespective of the charades perpetrated by the Palestinian National Council (PNC) votes in 1996 and 1998, when they voted to allegedly annul the onerous Palestinian Charter clauses.
Mr. Kristof should ask the Palestinian President Abbas to show him the document which lists the alleged annulled clauses of the Palestinian Charter represented in Arafat’s January 1998 letter to President Clinton. Mr. Kristof should also ask President Abbas to show him the new Palestinian Charter which was supposed to be re-drafted pursuant to the 1996 PNC vote.
Mr. Kristof should also tell his readers how to dispose of Hamas and its leaders who created the 1988 Hamas Constitution which called for the destruction of Israel.
My last request to Mr. Kristof is to tell us how to satisfy the Palestinian demand for the “return of the refugees.”
Respectfully submitted,
William K. Langfan
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