PLO leader Yasser Arafat calls for Palestinian state at UN 40 years ago this hour (Nov 13 1974)


Video: 'Yasser Arafat's Speech at the UN General Assembly Olive Branch Speech'

(Wednesday, November 13, 1974, 11:40 a.m. EST) — Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat addressed the U.N. General Assembly, the first representative of a non-governmental entity to do so, calling for creation of a Palestinian state in which Muslims, Jews and Christians could live in peace.


Video: 'Yasser Arafat Speech Young at the UN (United Nations)in 1974'