In an EXCLUSIVE interview, Palestine Ambassador to India Abdullah Abu Shawesh calls for an international review of all charters — Israeli and Palestinian — to pave the way for lasting peace. He questions whether Israel’s Likud party will change its charter, which currently rejects the establishment of a Palestinian state. The ambassador highlights how existing charters and political platforms shape the conflict and challenges the global community to push for change that respects the rights of both peoples.
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00:00I do know that PLO changed, amended its charter, to include, to acknowledge the existence of Israel and also remove the harsh wording of our rebellion.
00:12Do you think that Hamas will also change its charter? Will reprint it?
00:17The question is, when we change our charter, we change it as a PLO, the senior liberation organization.
00:24No, I'm talking about the charter.
00:25I'm coming, because I should put it in this legal frame.
00:29Which is the Palestinian liberation organization, according to India, is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
00:38So the one who should recognize Israel and amend their charter is the PLO, the sole and legitimate of the Palestinian people.
00:49But to ask anyone, when we sign Oslo Accord, we sign it with the government of Israel.
00:56True.
00:57We did not sign it with the Likud.
00:58And we will not go and ask the Likud or any political faction to change his mind.
01:03Likud itself, if you read his charter, it's the most radical charter against the Palestinian people.
01:14It's not only the Likud and other political faction, but we will not and we should not ask them to change their charter at all.
01:21Because this is not our business.
01:23We already sign Oslo Accord with the government of Israel.
01:26True.
01:27No need to ask Fatih, Hamas, the popular front.
01:31But when we talk about Gaza…
01:32In India…
01:33Wait, I'm coming.
01:34Gaza should be part of the state of Palestine.
01:40Gaza should be governed by the Palestinian Authority.
01:43Palestinian Authority is the son of the legitimate son of the legitimate and sole representative of the Palestinian people.
01:50When it came again to India, how many political factions do you have?
01:55Tens.
01:56So many.
01:57When His Excellency, the Prime Minister went to X or Y country to sign an agreement, he signed it on behalf of India, not on behalf of X or Y.
02:12Why?
02:13And other countries will not ask him, but we want this particular…
02:16That's true.
02:17But I want to come back to the disarmament of Hamas.
02:20I'm just trying to get your opinion.
02:21Do you think that it will change its charter?
02:23Because that's very important for Hamas to actually recognize prominently the existence of Israel.
02:29Yes.
02:30We have, again, our declared…
02:32Hamas has been an engagement in communication with Hamas.
02:34Okay.
02:35Yes.
02:36We are in communication with Hamas.
02:37And again, charter is individual for a political faction.
02:41Will the Likud accept to amend the charter and to remove from it as a charter the issue of…
02:49But we're talking about the issue in Gaza.
02:51I'm coming back.
02:52Why do you want to concentrate in Gaza but do not want to tackle the issue from it as a macro level?
02:58Will we, will the Likud, will the X and Y of the political Israeli faction, will they go to amend their charter?
03:10Yes.
03:11We should not ask anyone to amend the issue.
03:13But according to us, our official position.
03:16Okay.
03:17The PLO, declared in a written form, it's declared position.
03:20Yes.
03:21Anywho wants to be a part of the Palestinian future, political future, I mean, or to be a part of the election or all of this.
03:32He should abide by all the commitment that made by the PLO.
03:38Which means, by default, two-state solution, accepting the existence of the state of Israel and all of this stuff.
03:45But regarding existing, accepting the right of Israel to exist, it's another ambiguous issue.
03:52What's the meaning of if Palestine or not Palestine accept or deny the right of India to exist?
04:00India is there. India exists. Israel exists. Israel is a member of the United Nations.
04:06Put aside all of this because we had been brainwashed.
04:11What's the meaning of acknowledging the right of Israel to exist?
04:14But Charter is very important because when PLO has so many student unions all across the world,
04:21Charter is the one which people abide by.
04:23Yes, of course.
04:24For Hamas also it is the same.
04:26Of course.
04:27So it's very important to talk about Charter.
04:28And for the Likud, the biggest party in Israel should acknowledge the right of Palestinian people to exist.
04:35Should acknowledge the right of Palestinian people to be free.
04:38Should acknowledge the fundamental right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.
04:44They are utterly against our right.
04:47We're going to ask Hamas to change its Charter.
04:50But my question.
04:51My question.
04:52Will anyone dare to ask the Israeli political faction to change their Charter?
04:57Is anyone know about what is the Israeli political Charter?
05:01Talking about how did they tackle on treating the Palestinian people?
05:06Is it fair to review all the Charters for every single political party in Palestine and Israel?
05:12And to make sure that there is no incitement, no hate speech, and coexistence for the two-state solution.
05:19Is it fair?
05:20I'm asking you.
05:21Is it fair?
05:22So let us together call for an international review for all the political Charter, Palestinian and Israeli,
05:31and to make sure there is no hate speech, and each one should abide by it.
05:36The Israeli and the Palestinian should not mention any hate speech, should recognize the right of the other people to exist,
05:42should recognize the right of other people to be free, and recognize the right of other people to self-determination.
05:49is the right of the right internal determination.
05:56So that we can have a clear determination.
05:59I will give you theounce watch, yes, libraries and unique in whole society.
06:03And to the right back to If it is fair, I will finish the kind of covert to the right to the right to the right to the right of the right,
06:08so that we can practise ourselves and maintain a strong determination.
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06:12If the transfer of displacement is not equal or where we don't Jubil,
06:14or Sow is equal.
06:15Okay.
06:16So where are some of the radical movements of the right to the left ?
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