A short pamphlet by the Syrian-Palestinian academic Fayez A. Sayegh (1922-1980), outlining his perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was issued by the General Union of Palestine Students (Kuwaiti Graduate Society), for the International Symposium on Palestine that took place in Kuwait in February 1971.
Sayegh was a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause, and his essay relates several standpoints maintained throughout his activism: that Zionism in Palestine is a form of settler colonialism; that international bodies had failed the Palestinians; that Palestinian exceptionalism should be rejected and that a peaceful Palestine could only be achieved through the upholding of universal human rights (“The vision is of a pluralistic Palestine on whose once-hallowed but now-bloodied fields and hills indigenous Palestinians, Christian and Muslim, and non-indigenous Jews will live together: neither claiming the country as his alone, whether by right or by conquest, but each looking upon the land as the common domain of all.” (p.[15]).
