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Dr. Sheikh said that the Israeli Army had tried to and partly succeeded in destroying everything the Palestinians have - their life, property, self-respect and their independence. It is the solidarity and support of the people all over the world and especially India, which had been a beacon of hope for Palestinians, he said. He was speaking at the public meeting organised to commemorate the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation by the Indo-Arab League here on Sunday. The Congress MP, Mani Shankar Aiyer, criticised the NDA Government for departing from India's long established support for the Palestinian cause. He questioned the propriety of Jaswant Singh stating in Israel that India's support to Palestine was based on vote bank politics. Mr. Aiyer said that in 1920s, Gandhiji had clearly supported the Palestinian demand for their homeland. He clarified that the problem was not between Jews or Muslims but rather with the Zionists attack on the Palestinians. He likened it to the Hindutva attack on the Muslims. The CPI General Secretary, A.B. Bardhan, also said that the struggle of the Palestinians was for their homeland and not against the Jews. He wondered why the United States did not allow even one UN resolution on Palestine to be implemented even though it insists on following every letter of UN resolutions on Iraq. Sitaram Yechury, CPI (M) Politburo member, said that American imperialism was oppressing people all over the world and denying them justice. He claimed the Indian Government was kow- towing to the US and had lost all its non-aligned stature. The former Union Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan supported the cause of the Palestinian State and said that the Government of India should not change its long established policy of standing by the Palestinians. He compared the oppression of the Palestinians with the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat. The Iraqi Ambassador, Salah Al Mukhtar, also spoke while the President of the Indo-Arab League, Syed Vicaruddin, welcomed. The meeting passed resolutions calling for severance of all diplomatic and trade relations with Israel, for immediate cessation of hostilities and demolition of Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestine territories. It also called for the posting of an independent UN observer in the region.
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