March 1976, Abu Mazen

Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), from the official journal of the PLO, Falastin el-Thawra (“What We Have Learned and What We Should Do”), Beirut, March 1976.

“The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live.”

“The Arab states succeeded in scattering the Palestinian people and in destroying their unity.  They did not recognize them as a unified people until the states of the world did so, and this is regrettable.”