Palestinian Authority Quotes
Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.
Palestinian Authority, The Palestinian National Charter, July 1968
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The PLO and the Popular Front were guests in Jordan but would not submit to Jordanian sovereignty and control. The Palestinians then tried to take over Jordan. As a result, the Jordanians expelled the Palestinians from Jordan.
”Palestine” to the Arabs of the area meant the territory of the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel itself. They wanted to expel the Jews and or take over the whole area as a single state—Palestine—with an Arab majority. With the Israeli Defense Forces successes under Dayan, this notion of Palestine was “finished”. The notion of a Palestinian State which included the West Bank and Gaza but not Israel was then negotiated and these negotiations were ongoing for years. Minorities of Arabs and Israelis did not want to see a any Palestinian state that did not include Israel proper, and they blocked it whenever they could.
Syria was launching and supoorting Palestenian terror attacks Israel, and then was complaining when Israel retaliated. The American Ambassador, a known pro-Arab, even suggested that the Syrians curtail their support for the terror attacks.
This resolution has never been rescinded. Some Arab states have abandoned this resolution and negotiated peace and recognition such as Egypt. The majority of the Arab States did and do not want peace with Israel. They did and do not want to recognize Israel and they did and do not want to negotiate. But they often blame Israel for being intransigent in the peace process. Many Arabs want a peace treaty and want to negotiate but the extreme rejectionists generally dominate Arab politics.
The Palestinian National Authority (PA or PNA; Arabic: السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية as-Sulṭa al-Waṭanīya al-Filasṭīnīya) is the interim self-government body that exercises partial civil control over the Gaza Strip and 167 islands in the West Bank known as "Areas A and B", established as a consequence of the 1993-95 Oslo Accords. Following elections in 2006 and the subsequent Gaza conflict between the Fatah and Hamas parties, its authority had extended only in areas A and B of the West Bank. Since January 2013, the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority uses the name "State of Palestine" on official documents.
