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Eóin Murray and James Mehigan The Electronic Intifada 9 September 2016

China’s Vice Premier Liu Yandong shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, last March. Both governments have invoked spurious historical backing for territorial claims that violate international law. Gil Cohen Magen Xinhua

As preparations were being made in Washington for the Gulf War, a group of Palestinian intellectuals gathered in a Manhattan apartment to discuss how the Palestine Liberation Organization should respond to Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, was among those in attendance. He has confirmed to us that – after much debate – the conclusion was clear: occupation is occupation, no matter who was responsible and even if the impending American war was equally illegitimate.

The group then dispatched Edward Said, a member of the Palestinian National Council, to Tunis.

Said was asked to try to convince Yasser Arafat, the PLO leader, that he should condemn the Iraqi invasion. Arafat ignored Said – and many others – and backed Saddam.

It was a moral and political miscalculation which led to approximately 400,000 Palestinians being expelled or fleeing from Kuwait after Iraqi forces were dislodged in 1991.

The consequences of that decision to defy international law created a heavy burden for the affected families.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-does-palestinian-authority-support-chinese-colonialism/17896

Six Palestinian youths to be released from Palestinian Authority prison

Human rights groups say the six youths' imprisonment is a consequence of the Palestinian Authority's 'security coordination' with Israeli occupation.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/197-six-palestinian-youths-to-be-released-from-palestinian-authority-prison

Palestinian Supreme Court freezes municipal elections in West Bank, Gaza

The Israeli occupation and the division between Fatah and Hamas has created a crisis of democracy in Palestine.
http://www.alternativenews.org/index.php/headlines/198-palestinian-supreme-court-freezes-municipal-elections-in-west-bank-gaza