reconciliation in which the President of Palestine - in Algeria, in Geneva in 1988 and subsequently - provided peace with a historical opportunity by cecognizing the two-state system in historic Palestine, by ceoognizing Israel and its right to exist within the lS67 bordet5. Israel refuses to aoknowledge that gesture of reconciliation for a peace that has long eluded the Middle East, a gesture having the tbtal approval of the Palestine National Council, the representatives of the Palestinian people, who have endured many frustrations in the refugee camps, and Who Catl no longer claim Jaffa, Nazareth and the Galilee as their State in order to accommodate that historic act of reconciliation. What it wants to hear is 4klnnlmml V4exiMCI. *i+* up p11 &h--a - -_---p---- _ - -----, -..-I”. Paleetine as a geographical entity and historical reality is pact of our collective national meroocy. That cannot be abused. That cannot be removed. Therefore, for the Israelis mOce or less ex oathedra to remove Palestine as a geograPhica entity, aa a historical memory for Palestinians &o have been forcibly JB/9 S/W. 2926 27 (Me. mksoud) evicted frm their homes and homeland, in order to accommodate, as X menticned in Geneva, a historical grievance of people of Jewish faith 89 a result of anti-semitism, persecution and the holocaust, does not mean that they have abandoned their legitimata rights to an equal status and an equal state in historical Palestine. That act of reconcilation is being deliberately distorted because Israel does not want to recognise that the Palestinians are a People, that they have a legitimate representative, that they are entitled ti a State that can be independent and to Part of their patrimony. That is the reas<m why the Israeli representative, with total implnity, can come and turn the focus from Israel’s 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a political statement or opinion piece, discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the concept of reconciliation. It mentions historical events, geographical entities, and the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians. The language used is formal and rhetorical, suggesting that the text is intended to persuade or educate rather than provide factual information or practical solutions.

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