Fatah leader supports 'resistance' in Iraq
No, this time the Fatah leader is not 'moderate' 'Palestinian' PresidentI want to cite the actions and future actions of President [Abbas], from the starting point that the Palestine cause is the essential and central cause of the Arab Nation. It's not surprising that [to] certain journalists of the current despicable American era, our [Arab nationalist] language of the 50s and 60s is outdated, when we talk about the nature of the struggle between the Arab Nation and its enemies: the Imperialists and Zionists, who attack and occupy our territories inside Palestine and outside, in Iraq, in the remains of South Lebanon and the Golan.Note also that he talks about 'authentic Arabs.' Yes folks, 'Palestinians' are Arabs and are not a separate, unique nationality or people.
"We [however,] take pride in this [Arab nationalist] language because we are the authentic Arabs who believe in our Arabism, our faith, our cause, our Nation, in our right to struggle and to resistance [euphemism for terror] in all possible ways in all the occupied lands, in Palestine, Lebanon the Golan and Iraq...
Of course, 'Palestinian' television is controlled by Fatah, which is controlled by Abu Mazen, so if Abu Mazen did not agree with these sentiments, he could have prevented them from being broadcast.
I wonder if Condi raised this with Abu when she was in Israel yesterday. Heh.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:12 PM
1 Comments:
A good point - the authentic Arab must of necessity be anti-Israel, anti-American and a religious fanatic. As a concept, it has enormous sway in much of the Middle East and it explains why no true moderates or pragmatists have arisen in the Arab World. Note that what they say to their own people in Arabic is very different from what they say to Westerners and Israelis in English. The extremes dominate Arab Muslim culture to such an extent that compromise or acceptance of the legitimacy of an adversary's point of view is seen as betrayal and treason. That's why its next to impossible to imagine a genuine give and take settlement between the Muslim Arabs and the infidel Jews.
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