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MPF Position Paper On Palestine

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MPF Position Paper On Palestine
MPF POSITION ON PALESTINE ON THE OPENING AND CLOSING DAY
PRESENTED TO THE UN ASIAN MEETING & FORUM OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN SUPPORT OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
15-17 DEC 2006, KUALA LUMPUR

1. OPENING DAY PRESENTATION
 December 15, 2006

MPF POSITION PAPER ON PALESTINE

Background

The first ever legislative election for the Palestinian National Authority in January 2006 exposed the real intent of the United States and her allies. The elections were part of the fulfillment of the purported Peace process brokered by the United States to bring about lasting peace and security in the Middle East.

The Palestinian people were given a free rein to elect their own government, one of the pillars of democracy as advocated by the forefathers of liberalism. However, when the Palestinian people cast their votes in favour of HAMAS, the free democratic nations of the western world chose to turn their backs against their own principles.

Instead of acknowledging the constitutional rights of the Palestinian people, the United States and her allies deployed all resources at their disposal to ensure the failure of the nascent HAMAS led Palestinian National Authority. At the behest of the United States, the Middle East Quartet comprising the United States, European Union, Russia and United Nations, held HAMAS and the Palestinian people hostage. They were given an ultimatum; either submit to the demands of the Quartet or suffer the worst economic sanctions ever to have been imposed in recent history.

The Palestinian people knew fully well the consequence of electing HAMAS into government. They knew the repercussions of opting for an organization that was high on the so called “US terrorist organization list” and they braced themselves for the possible outcomes.

But they also knew HAMAS was their only exit from the perpetual denial of their INALIENABLE RIGHT towards their homeland. They were ready to stand by the “Hudna” ( truce plan ) laid out by HAMAS. The peaceful plan included the complete withdrawal of Israel to the borders prior to June 1967, delineated by the Green line imposed on the Palestinians by the cessation of the Arab-Israeli hostility of 1948.

The Hudna represents nothing more than what has been provisioned by the UN Resolution 242 passed in 1967 i.e. the complete withdrawal of Israel from the occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza strip.

One other condition that Israel needs to fulfill was to honour the INALIENABLE RIGHT OF RETURN of the Palestinian people. And by no coincidence, this right is also guaranteed by the UN resolution 194 (III) of 1949 which states that Palestinian people wishing to return home should be allowed to do so at the earliest practicable date. Yet, six decades on and the Palestinian people are still languishing in refugee camps across the Middle East.

It would be utter humiliation for the Palestinian people and a disgrace to the civilised world if the Palestinian National Authority were to bow to the inhumane pressures of the United States and her allies and to continue on a futile peace process that promises nothing but perpetual occupation and subjugation by the Zionist State.

The recent Israeli aggression unfolding in Beit Hanoun which so far has claimed close to 100 Palestinian lives and the United States veto of the Security Council resolution admonishing Israel demonstrates yet another wanton denial of the basic rights of the Palestinian people to an honourable existence in their own homeland.

THE MUSLIM PROFESSIONALS FORUM TAKING COGNISANCE OF THE ABOVE DO HEREBY:

  1. URGE the United States and her allies to respect the Palestinian people and their democratic right to vote and elect the government of their choosing;
  2. URGE the United States to end the economic deprivation of the Palestinian people and to uplift the sanctions imposed on the Palestinian State;
  3. URGE the immediate release of innocent Palestinians detained in the Israeli prisons, including 120 women and 400 children prisoners;
  4. URGE all democratic nations of the world to come to the financial aid of the Palestinian government on humanitarian grounds in show of solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine;
  5. CONDEMN in the strongest possible term the latest round of aggression by Israel and urge the United Nation to do everything possible to end wanton killings of innocent Palestinians; and
  6. SUPPORT any move by the Government of Malaysia to undertake the instrumental role in the OIC, to champion the Palestinian cause in their aspirations towards freedom, justice and self determination.

2. CLOSING DAY PRESENTATION

December 17, 2006

THE MUSLIM PROFESSIONALS FORUM TAKING COGNISANCE OF THE TURBULENT EVENTS UNFOLDING IN PALESTINE DO HEREBY:

  1. URGE the world community to recognize the continued sufferings of the Palestinian people which is unprecedented in contemporary history;
  2. URGE the world community to recognize that since the creation of Israel in 1948, the Palestinians have been forcibly evicted from their homes and denied their inalienable right of a dignified return to their homeland;
  3. URGE the world community to recognize that the Israeli government have blatantly and systematically denied the Palestinians of any opportunity of a peaceful coexistence on their homeland and have instead persecuted them with various acts of state sponsored terrorism;
  4. URGE the world community to abhor and rein in the inhumane and racist policies of the Israeli government in their daily persecution of the Palestinian people;
  5. URGE the world community to respect the democratic right of the Palestinian people to vote and elect the government of their choosing, that is the Hamas led Palestinian National Authority;
  6. URGE the world community to call for the uplifting of sanctions imposed on the Palestinian State and to end the economic deprivation of the Palestinian people;
  7. URGE the world community to offer humanitarian aid to the Palestinian government in show of solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine;
  8. URGE all Palestinians to recognize that narrow and partisan political ambitions would derail their struggle towards peace, freedom, justice and self determination.
  9. URGE all Palestinians to unite under the legitimate democratic rule of the Hamas led Palestinian National Authority;
  10. URGE all Palestinians to condemn any attempts to undermine the sovereignty of the democratically elected Hamas led Palestinian National Authority;
  11. URGE this august group of civil society to continually cherish and celebrate the universal values of peace, freedom, justice, human dignity and the brotherhood of humanity;
  12. URGE you honourable ladies and gentlemen to emphatise and support the Palestinian people who have been denied of these fundamental human values;
  13. URGE you respected participants of this peaceful discourse to inform your governments of the true story of Palestine and to rectify the disinformation perpetuated by the Zionist and neo-conservative lobbies;
  14. URGE Israel to embrace the “Hudna” (truce plan) which stipulates her withdrawal to the borders prior to June 1967 as provisioned by UN Resolution 242 (1967);
  15. URGE Israel to honour the right of return of the Palestinians as guaranteed by UN Resolution 194 III (1949);
  16. URGE the Jewish community who were victims of the Holocaust to not now perpetrate a “neo-Holocaust” to persecute and annihilate the Palestinian community;
  17. SUPPORT any move by the Government of Malaysia to champion the Palestinian cause in their aspirations towards freedom, justice and self determination.

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