'The only option'?
Khaled Meshaal, the chairman of Hamas' politburo, has told a conference in Tehran that the 'Palestinians' 'only option' is 'resistance.' So what else is new? (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). "Palestinians must resort to resistance no matter how costly it is, until Palestine is free and Israel is destroyed," Meshal said.Don't kid yourselves. Most of the 'Palestinian Authority's supporters think exactly the same way. They just won't vote for Hamas because they don't want to live in a Caliphate. This is not a minority view among 'Palestinians.' This is their standard. The desire to destroy Israel is why there is no peace - and there will not be peace for the foreseeable future.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who also spoke at the conference on Saturday, assailed a two state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, saying the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations is doomed to fail.
Khamenei told the conference, which was attended by other by senior Palestinian militant leaders as well as Mashaal, that the Palestinians should not limit themselves to seeking a country based on the pre-1967 borders because "all land belongs to Palestinians."
"Our claim is freedom of Palestine, not part of Palestine. Any plan that partitions Palestine is totally rejected," Khamenei told the conference.
"Palestine spans from the river (Jordan) to the sea (Mediterranean), nothing less."
Khamenei claimed that a two state solution would mean "giving in to the demand of the Zionists" and that it would "trample the rights of the Palestinian people" to live on their land.
Khamenei also called Israel a "cancerous tumor" that should be removed.
Hamas has repeatedly expressed its opposition to the Palestinian bid for statehood in the UN, led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Last week, Gaza’s Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh accused Abbas.of relinquishing Palestinian rights by seeking recognition for a state in the pre-1967 borders.
"The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives," Haniyeh said. "States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established."
Labels: Ayatollah Ali Khameni, Hamas, Israel's right to exist, Khaled Meshaal, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, Unilateral declaration of independence (UDI)
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:22 PM
2 Comments:
Exactly. Israel's leaders continue to delude themselves into thinking they still have a peace partner. The Palestinians are perfectly clear on rejecting any kind of peace with Israel. Its time for Israel's government to face reality and to move on.
and (partial) Jewish (or Evangelical) support in the Diaspora cannot compensate for Israeli strategic dithering. Large swaths of world opinion including misguided or stupid or "idealistic" or malicious or new left or Jew-baiting cohorts in America prefer an Eternal Jew Zionist bogeyman to addressing Palestinian rejectionism.
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