The Netherlands Palestine Committee chose the occasion of Israel’s 30th anniversary to publish a large advertisement in the daily De Volksrant demanding, among other things, an independent Palestinian state, Israel’s evacuation of all occupied Arab territories and recognition of the PLO by the Dutch government. The ad carried about 1000 signatures, mostly individuals but some of them organizations or groups such as the South Moluccan extremist “Pattimura” movement.
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