NYT, May 31, 1964 [Shukairy's plan]

PALESTINIANS SET ‘LIBERATION’ GOAL; Organization Is Formed to Mold Refugee Force

May 31, 1964, Page 6

BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 30—Three hundred fifty delegates claiming to represent one and a half million Arab refugees from Palestine vowed this week to “sacrifice our blood for the liberation of Palestine.”

They were pledging allegiance to the Palestine Liberation Organization, established at the National Palestine Congress now meeting in Jerusalem's Jordanian sector. They rejected plans to resettle refugees in host Arab countries and declared: “Palestine is ours, ours, ours. We shall accept no substitute homeland.”
A large emblem of the organization adorned the assembly hall in Jerusalem's new Intercontinental Hotel, where the congress convened. -

The emblem carried a map of Palestine, including the “occupied” area that is now Israel. Inscribed across the map were the words, “We shall return.”

Ahmed Shukairy, a lawyer from Haifa, Is the leader of the new organization. He was chosen last January at a conference of Arab leaders in Cairo to establish what is now referred to as the “Palestine entity.”
One plan suggested by him to accomplish this, called the Palestine National Charter, laid down general rights and obligations for Palestinians. It defined Palestine as the area that existed under the British mandate that ended in 1948.

A second plan proposed the liberation organization, which is to have an executive committee and an army of Palestinians.
Mr. Shukairy declared that the organization was based on “faith in the inevitability of the liberation of Palestine and the determination of Palestinians to mobilize all their material, militar and spiritual energies to ward this end.”
The Palestine National Congress and the liberation organization are regarded as the first serious effort since the Palestine war 16 years ago to mold refugees into an effective force.

Although Arab governments agree in principle on the need for a Palestinian “entity,”. they are divided over the methods through which this should be achieved. Mr. Shukairy's plan falls short of some Arab and Palestinian expectations.
Mr. Shukairy, with the approval of a number of Arab governments, opposed the establoshment of a Palestine government in exile at this stage.


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