On 15 November 1988, 35 years ago, Yasser Arafat read out in Algiers the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, written by the poet Mahmoud Darwish and just approved by the Palestinian National Council, meeting in exile: “The Palestine National Council hereby declares, in the Name of God and on behalf of the Palestinian Arab people, the establishment of the State of Palestine in the land of Palestine with its capital at Jerusalem (Al-Quds Ash-Sharif).”
