"The
Palestinians Will Have Their Independence!"
Boutros Ghali Interviewed in depth
in 1979 by Mark Bruzonsky, Associate Editor of WORLDVIEW Magazine
This Interview with the Egyptian
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs the year after the historic Camp
David agreement between Israel, the United States and Egypt contains historic insights of
considerable significance. Boutros Ghali went on to become
Secretary-General of the United Nations. President Jimmy Carter
was defeated by Ronald Reagan in 1980. The Egyptian President,
Anwar Sadat, was assassinated at a military parade by persons in his
own army in 1981. And over the next two decades the history of
the Middle East became more bloody and more complex as Israel proceeded
with colonization, all facilitated and financed by the U.S.,
refusing after all to allow a Palestinian State. The Clash
of Civilizations and the era of suicide bombers soon began in a sense
culminating more than two decades later in the events now known as 9/11
and the aftermath that is now our present world. The sad
and tragic path from the events discussed in this interview to 9/11 is
oftentimes convoluted, complex, and indirect; yet the connections are
very real and of great importance to understand and appreciate.
