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"Here is what [the Palestinians] could say: 'There can be no government without a state to govern. And just as there is no Palestinian state, there is no Palestinian government. Some Palestinians live in exile; others as a reviled minority; and others under military occupation. But, we are one people and we will accept no solution that does not offer us justice as one people. Israel is an occupying power that has grave responsibilities to the people on whom it has chosen to impose a military occupation for four decades. Israel is denying the fundamental human and political rights of the Palestinians for whom it has granted nominal citizenship, as is obvious from its neurotic and even I would say obscene discourse on the demographic crisis. And Israel is denying the fundamental human and political rights of those Palestinians in exile, who have the right to return to their homeland from which they or their parents were violently expelled in 1948. We are willing to share the land with Israel's Jews and to live with them in peace and justice. But, we insist on a government for all of us that is genuinely democratic and secular and that treats all of its citizens equally before the law. In short, we Palestinians demand our right to live as normal human beings and in accordance with the accepted norms of the 21st century.'"

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