Olympics perfect platform to tell world of our suffering: Palestine NOC President | ABS-CBN News
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We are facing three challenges.
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The first one, what's going on in Palestine in general against all Palestinians,
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but also the destruction of all sport facilities,
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the suffocation, systematic policy against us,
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which forced us to suspend all sport activities and all leagues.
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In addition to the loss of hundreds of athletes killed, injured, missing, arrested,
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you know, this is the first challenge.
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The second challenge is our motherland.
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The third challenge is our movement.
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And for example, from Gaza, we could not bring out anyone of the athletes.
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Inside the West Bank, the movement is not easy.
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But in spite of that, we could find a small team who were qualified for with a wild card.
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And we, the third, you know.
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Other logistic, financial, and so.
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But in spite of that, we have the determination and the commitment for our cause
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that this is a good platform and an effective tool to tell the world,
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to attract the attention of the international community about our suffering and about our justice cause.
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And even inside the village, everybody is trying to support and to encourage.
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And I'm sure that this humanitarian and good feeling is encouraging our athletes and our mission.
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Because this is also a message of hope that you are not alone.
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We are alone. We are with you. And this also gives more determination and commitment to our athletes and the whole Palestinian mission in the United States.
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I don't think that it's fair to ask the victim, you know, coming, attending in spite of all the difficulties. It's a good message. It's a peaceful message.
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I do believe that the non-violence and the sport is part of the resistance to expose my cause. That's the other side.
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You know, he should.
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He should be asked, how do you see what's going on? And why? And for what?
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You know, what's going on is genocide. It's apartheid. It's ethnical cleansing.
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Tens of thousands, 85% of them are kids killed in Gaza. 90% of the people are displaced. Why? For what?
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Israeli Olympic Committee. Israeli Federation.
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I myself, I receive daily phone calls from Israelis in Hebrew. And I have their phone numbers.
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We are coming. We are on way.
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I personally, and I face humiliation when I pass, either through the bread's leaving,
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or on checkpoints, because I am the president of Olympic and so on, so on. Okay?
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But, you know, the Israelis are isolated. No one likes them.
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The Israelis, okay, they know the feeling in the street, wherever you go.
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Not because they are Jews, and not because they are athletes, but because, first of all, of their country is crimes,
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and as I said, I did not hear any Israeli athlete, or Olympians, or sport president denying, or at least keeping distance.
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You should pay the price of violating. The Israelis should not...
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Excuse me, I think that you should ask the athletes themselves.
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Okay, you know, I can't, I can't, for me, sport is a non-violence, a peaceful, a humanitarian tool.
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And I can't speak on behalf of any athlete, no matter whether he is a Palestinian or a non-Palestinian.
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You can follow up and see that many athletes, you know, Bilgeo, for example, refused.
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To host an official game, even between Israel and their national team, and they ask to play.
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Oh, this is the, the, the, the, as I think this up to the athlete himself.
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The separation of one, anyone even.
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As a matter of principle, for me, sport will remain.
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A tool for a peaceful resistance.
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I like to expose the cause through ethics values, rather than through the violence of machine guns.
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For me, this is genetic.
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And I believe in that, as a matter of principle.
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The second, you know, the solidarity, sympathy.
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And will also assure all the financial and other resources to rebuild, to reorganize.
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Sport, whether it's sport facilities or even human resources, to reorganize and to rebuild.
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We have no other choice.
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And we will remain there.
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We will not leave.
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We are in Palestine.
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Sport, for us, is a means and a source to serve our just cause.
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The cause of our people.
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We gather together as a country to advance the social justice, and laws,
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but also the如何 we also contribute to the standing of our people.
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Without any doubt, Thomas Bach
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for the Palestinian
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Olympic Committee
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and I know the pressure
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on the members of the
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But I hope that they will not be satisfied with these pressure, and that they will continue to perform their message and deceive Israel according to the Olympic agreement and according to the law of the human state and the laws of FIFA.
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I hope that they will not be satisfied with these pressure, and that they will continue to perform their message and deceive Israel according to the law of the human state and the laws of FIFA.
