Report: Ashrawi says Palestinians will no longer be victims

Leading Palestinian personality Hanan Ashrawi, told the British daily The Independent about the ongoing Palestinian uprising that Israeli "Occupation is the cause of our problem. We already made the historic compromise by accepting 22 per cent of Mandate Palestine .. In 1967, Israel occupied the remaining 22 per cent ­ 242 deals only with this remaining 22 per cent of Palestine. We said we would be reasonable, pragmatic. But now Israel says it will keep its 78 per cent and see how much it wants to keep of our 22 per cent ­ in Jerusalem, Jewish settlements and so on. So they want to sign away our rights."

Ashrawi told The Independent that she expects the uprising to continue "in different shapes, different forms." "We are not fond of mass suicide, but we want the right to resist occupation and injustice.

Ashrawi told The Independent "Ultimately, there will have to be peace. But any unfair, unjust, partial, imposed peace will be a postponement or an invitation to further conflict."

Ashrawi sees the Oslo process as dead and that the only remaining basis for negotiation are UN resolutions, as the Israelis have never respect the time tables of the Oslo declarations of principles.