March 19, 2001 Newspaper Al Hayat Al Jadida

March 19, 2001 Arab Refugees

“I have received a letter from a Palestinian prisoner in acre prison, to the Arab summit:
to the [Arab and Muslim] kings and presidents, poverty is killing us, the symptoms are exhausting us and the souls are leaving our body, yet you are still searching for the way to provide aid, like one who is looking for a needle in a haystack or like the armies of your predecessors in the year of 1948, who forced us to leave [Israel], on the pretext of clearing the battlefields of civilians… So what will your summit do now?”

Source: Fuad Abu Higla, columnist official PA daily Al Hayat Al Jadida, in an article before an Arab Summit, critical of Arab leaders for a series of failures. March 19, 2001]; 61