March 5, 2008 - 12:00am
By Therese Lahlouh
Statler Auditorium was at its 750-person capacity yesterday evening as the Palestinian Liberation Organization representative to the U.S. Afif Safieh engaged the audience in a discussion of Palestine’s perspective on the Middle East conflicts.
“The challenge in the Middle East is that we either have one people too many — this time, we the Palestinians — or we have a state which is missing and needs to be created,” Safieh said. “The verdict of the international community has been for three decades that there isn’t a people too many, there is a state missing. But the verdict of history is still undecided.”