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Marwan Barghouti — 'Want Security? End the Occupation' (The Washington Post, 16 January 2002)
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Palestine 2002-01-16 Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary
Politician: Marwan Barghouti
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The only way for Israelis to have security is, quite simply, to end the 35-year-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. The lack of Israeli security is born of the lack of Palestinian freedom.
We Palestinians have recognized Israel on 78 percent of historic Palestine. It is Israel that refuses to acknowledge Palestine's right to exist on the remaining 22 percent of land occupied in 1967. And we have no faith in the United States, the provider of billions of dollars in annual aid to fund Israel's expansion of illegal colonies, supplying the F-16s and helicopter gunships used against a civilian population.
While I, and the Fatah movement to which I belong, strongly oppose attacks and the targeting of civilians inside Israel, I reserve the right to resist the Israeli occupation of my country and to fight for my freedom. I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I still seek peaceful coexistence between the equal and independent countries of Israel and Palestine based on full withdrawal from Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 and a just resolution to the plight of Palestinian refugees pursuant to U.N. resolutions. I do not seek to destroy Israel but only to end its occupation of my country. How to cite this document
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(Barghouti, 2002) Barghouti, M.. (2002). Marwan Barghouti — 'Want Security? End the Occupation' (The Washington Post, 16 January 2002). web.archive.org. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://web.archive.org/web/2018id_/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2002/01/16/want-security-end-the-occupation/6d95b7aa-48bd-43e8-9698-e35331460ffb/
Barghouti, Marwan. 2002. "Marwan Barghouti — 'Want Security? End the Occupation' (The Washington Post, 16 January 2002)." web.archive.org. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://web.archive.org/web/2018id_/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2002/01/16/want-security-end-the-occupation/6d95b7aa-48bd-43e8-9698-e35331460ffb/.
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