Sentence:  I appeal to you to enable our people to establish national independent sovereignty over its own land. / Today I have come bearing an <WSD>olive branch</WSD> and a freedom-fighter's gun. Do not let the <WSD>olive branch</WSD> fall from my hand. I repeat: do not let the <WSD>olive branch</WSD> fall from my hand. / War flares up in Palestine, and yet it is in Palestine that peace will be born. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A branch of an olive tree offered as an emblem of peace.