Read this quote from haidar abd el-shafi, then answer the question: "we, the people of palestine, stand before you in the fullness of our pain, our pride, and our anticipation, for we long harbored a yearning for peace and a dream of justice and freedom. for too long, the palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced and denied, our identity negated by political expedience, our right for struggle against injustice maligned, and our present existence subsumed by the past tragedy of another people." the above quote is from a speech given at the madrid peace conference by a palestinian leader in 1991.
to which of the following does the speaker attribute the ignoring of his people's suffering?
a. palestinians' unrealistic
b. dreams the nazi killing of jews
c. the excessive pride of jews
c. palestinians' silence on their plight