THE BOOK OF PALESTINE

When Yasser Arafat first went to speak at the United Nations General Assemby, he said that he came “bearing an olive branch in one hand and a freedom fighter´s gun in the other”, and concluded: “don´t let the olive branch fall from my hand”. During the last decades, the olive branch lived together with the gun, at the same time. Sometimes the olive branch fell on the ground, sometimes does not. In many situations described in this book, and especially since Oslo Accords and the Resolution 67/2012, the palestinians are seeing that olive became a tree. This book is dedicated to peace, not war. There is one point that has to be acknowleged: in the Palestinian conflict there are no heroes or villains. For that sense, this book sought to demonstrate that these and other realities are part of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict that originated during the British Mandate for territorial issues, based on historical and religious rights. We analyzed a collection of facts that affected all parties in the adoption of an impartial position on the theme adopted. The history of the conflicts was softened when the Oslo Accords created an autonomous Palestinian government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip where the lives of millions of Palestinians became ruled by a self-government on the most different subjects as tourism, education, culture and others.