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In the summer of last year, we gathered

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here and in Trafalar Square

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week after week during the massacre of

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thousands of Palestinian people, men,

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women, and 500 of them children in Gaza.

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Speaking in parliament a couple of

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months later, I warned the members of

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parliament that the next uprising would

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be in Jerusalem. And now we have the

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Jerusalem interif. And we say victory to

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the Jerusalem intera.

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Not because we love violence, we hate

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it. Not because we wish for the death or

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the wounding of anyone,

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but in this we have to place the context

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that the BBC and Sky never will. The

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people in Jerusalem are rising up

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against almost 50 years of brutal

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illegal occupation.

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And it is their legal and their moral

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right to do so.

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And there is no equivalence

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between the violence of an occupied

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people and the violence of those who

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overwhelmingly with superior force

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occupy them.

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That's why when I was young on the

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television in dramas, we thrilled to the

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actions of the French resistance of the

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partisans in Italy and Yugoslavia

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because we recognized that when a people

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is violently illegally occupied for

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decades in this case and there is no

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other way to throw off, shake off that

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occupation,

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then the people have every legal and

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moral right to fight. And that's what

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they're doing now. And we have one

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choice.

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Are we with the European colonial

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settler state represented by that

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embassy there? Or are we with their

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victims?

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Hamash said earlier in his speech that

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he was a Palestinian.

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All over the world this day on social

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media, on the streets of capitals and

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other cities, we are saying in our

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thousands, in our millions, we are all

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Palestinians.

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In our thousands, in our millions, we

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are all Palestinians.

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In our thousands, in our millions, we

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are all Palestinians.

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One last point,

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every major party in this country

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has a friends of Israel.

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Conservative friends of Israel.

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Unbelievably a Labor Friends of Israel.

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Why does Israel have any friends in the

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Labor Party, let alone hundreds who will

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 glasses at their ritzy receptions

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at conference time? We have to create a

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situation in this country where people

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would be ashamed to be photographed at a

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friends of Israel suare.

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That's what we did in the struggle

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against apartheite in South Africa and

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that's what we must do in the struggle

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against apartheite in Palestine. Lastly,

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they say in their lack of context

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that somehow this inifada

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stands in the way of a negotiated

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solution to this ancient conflict.

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In fact,

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it's long past time for negotiation.

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negotiation between one party which

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holds all the weapons and has the

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support of almost every government in

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the world and another party which has

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only faith themselves and us on their

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side. This balance of power has to be

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changed. There's only one solution and

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that is one democratic state. From the

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Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea,

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Palestine will be free. Wasalamu

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alaykum. Thank you very much.