Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170521:05:30:00
>> in the 1970s this kind of rhetoric made perfect sense. people could identify with arafat, and they could see israel as the oppressor. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> while the palestinians hadn't by 1974 got the palestinian liberation that they were seeking, they'd certainly put themselves on the agenda at a very high level indeed, and this had happened fast. >> in a historic vote today, the united nations general assembly supported the palestinian claim to statehood. and a second resolution also passed that would give the palestine liberation organization a formal place at the u.n. as...