Arafat: Palestinian Right of Return is Inalienable
RAMALLAH, May 15, 2004, (WAFA) - President Yasser Arafat said Saturday that no power in the entire world has the right to make concessions on the right to return of the Palestinian Refugees.... On the 56th anniversary of "NAKBA" President Arafat said in a live speech on TV that the Israeli government could not exonerate itself from its moral, political and international responsibility concerning the Palestinian catastrophe.... "The Right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes is a sacred and inalienable right that is internationally protected and endorsed, stating that this right is heroically defended by the Palestinian people in the face of the Israeli occupation, colonization and against the Apartheid Wall of Annexation and expansion and in defense of our Christian and Islamic sanctuaries.... President Arafat concluded that the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian land is doomed to failure....