Michal Chartrand, president of the Montreal National Trade Unions Association, pledged the support of the organization to the cause of the Palestine nationalists at a meeting here sponsored by the Quebec Palestine Association in Montreal. About 150 persons, most of them Canadians of Arab origin, attended the meeting. Real Guilbert, president of the Laval Teachers Syndicate Trade Union, said “we should fight to get the history of Arab Palestine into Quebec schools.” Fayez Sayegh, Kuwait Ambassador to the UN, charged that since 1972, Israel had set up internment camps in the Gaza Strip.
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