00:00What are your views? How do you see Israel trying to put a wedge in India-Palestinian relations?
00:04Today, we used to say at that time, the main slogan is land without people for people without land.
00:10So that they completely eliminated us, even while we are the indigenous people,
00:16while we are the vast majority of the population.
00:19Today, everyone is traveling to Israel.
00:21The Ben-Gryon Airport is a pure Palestinian airport called, up to 1973, it was called Al-Lid Airport, Palestinian
00:30airport.
00:31We are a victim of the British occupation.
00:33We had been a victim of the British occupation during the First World War.
00:39We are a victim of the British issue of the Belfort Declaration.
00:43We are the victim up today, the very first issue.
00:45Israel is trying to say that the Indian soldier at that time came to liberate Haifa.
00:50This is in a big, big line.
00:54We are standing at the Palestinian embassy here in the national capital of India, New Delhi.
00:59With me is a Palestinian ambassador to India, Ambassador Abu Chavez.
01:04And the picture that you just saw, Yasser Arafat and Indira Gandhi tells the history between India and Palestine, the
01:13connect.
01:15Israel is casting aspersions on this relationship, as the film also showed, Ambassador.
01:21What are your views?
01:23How do you see Israel trying to put a wedge in India-Palestinian relations?
01:26Well, it's not only in India-Palestinian, but first and foremost, of course, thank you so much for having me
01:32and allow me to seize this opportunity.
01:34Pleasure.
01:35A very deep congratulation and best wishes to His Excellency, the Prime Minister of India, New Delhi, for his birthday,
01:43of course.
01:43And, of course, to extend many congratulations to India at large and again to the Prime Minister and his government
01:50for convening the Brexit summit.
01:52And a very significant step in our human life in this particular and tipping time, where the wars and all
02:02of these statuses are going in India to succeed, to convene, and to come with a very important outcome.
02:09The humanists deserve from our side as a Palestinian to send all of our best and congratulations.
02:14Back to your question, of course, yes, Israel is trying to falsify our history, not only these days, long time,
02:24even before the establishment of the state of Israel.
02:27Before 1948, the main slogan that used to occupy the discourse worldwide, by the cumulist and by the controlled media,
02:40by the Zionist movement,
02:41and this is not anti-Semitic because I must say this is a fact and I'm a Semitic person.
02:45So that they used to say at that time, the main slogan is land without people for people without land.
02:52So that they completely eliminated us, even while you are, not while we are the indigenous people,
02:58while we are the vast majority of the population, while they used to immigrate to carry our nationality at that
03:04time.
03:04I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of the people worldwide did not know that before 1948,
03:11all the Israelis, whom is Israeli, became Israeli today, and their ancestors at that time,
03:18used to hold the Palestinian nationality and the Palestinian passport.
03:22Today, everyone is traveling to Israel.
03:24The Ben-Gryon Airport is a pure Palestinian airport called, up to 1973, it was called Al-Lid Airport.
03:33Palestinian airport, one more land, let's be clear.
03:36So falsification of the history is there, it's a well-known issue.
03:42But since I assumed my office, I discovered that even they are trying to manipulate,
03:47to falsify part of the shared history as victims, both of us, India and Palestine.
03:53We are a victim of the British occupation.
03:55We had been a victim of the British occupation in 19 during the First World War.
04:01We are a victim of the British issue of the Belfort Declaration.
04:05We are the victim up to date, the very first issue or the very first one to sow the seed
04:11for all the misery that we are enduring up to date is the British.
04:15So that we are the victim of it.
04:17And I'm not blessed to remind you as Indian people about your history with the British at that time.
04:23Then I discovered that there is a battle called the Battle of Haifa and the Israelis trying to say that
04:29the Indian soldiers at that time came to liberate Haifa.
04:33This is in a big, big, big line.
04:38No one can even, anyone with a sense of logic cannot live with it at all.
04:44But anyone with a sense of logic cannot live with it for very simple, more than one reason.
04:49First and foremost, we in Palestine at that time, the citizens of Haifa, the Palestinians, it's a Palestinian citizen.
04:55Up to date, there is a direct, before 1948, it was a Palestinian citizen.
05:01We did not consider the Turkish, the old ones, as an occupation force.
05:05So you cannot say that it's an occupation and we liberate it.
05:09Okay.
05:09We did not submit any official request to the British to come and liberate it.
05:14Okay, okay.
05:15And the other issue, which is very important, how come the British became a liberation of forests in Palestine and
05:21at the same exact time, colonization, forests, and this is a contradiction issue.
05:29And you need, even if you bring an instrument, he will not be able to solve this.
05:34Believe it.
05:35Okay.
05:35And no one can believe it.
05:36And then I already submit our official position to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and I already circulate approximately 500
05:44official position papers on this regard all over.
05:48And yeah, I already create or the Embassy of Palestine create, I did not know what you call it, create
05:53or produce a video, which is 13 minutes.
05:56So you already saw it.
05:59So yes, just to contradict and to stand, to defend our history as Palestinian and I'm pretty sure it's a
06:06shared history between Palestine and Israel.
06:08Right.
06:09Absolutely.
06:10Ambassador, stay with us.
06:12The 13-minute video that Ambassador is mentioning about how Israel is trying to create a charade or maybe create
06:20something which never existed, that Indian forces went to liberate Haifa,
06:24the town which is talked about all these days.
06:27You can watch that 13-minute documentary here on One India, uncut version, courtesy of the Embassy of Palestine.
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