Posted on 02/16/2004 3:43:38 PM PST by SJackson
.S. President George Bush has long talked of his vision for "two states living side by side," and Prime Minister Sharon has given his assent as well - but the question is whether the Palestinian Authority agrees. A recent interview with a top Palestinian Authority official shows that Israel has still not earned the PA's respect for its right to exist.
Palestinian Media Watch (pmw.org.il) reports that Ahmad Nasser, Secretary of the Palestinian Legislative Council, insists, in an interview broadcast Feb. 6 on PATV, that Israel has no right to exist because it is "Satan's offspring." Nasser further asserts that Israel cannot exist "among human beings" because it was "founded on the basis of robbery, terror, killing, torture, assassination, death, stealing land and killing people."
"His comments," write PMW director Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, "reflect the PA's continuing campaign to challenge and deny Israel's right to exist."
Nasser goes so far as to use Israel's willingness to release 400 Arab terrorists and prisoners against the Jewish state: "We see that Israel is trying to delude the world," he told his interviewer, "and delude the Arabs and the Palestinians psychologically [by showing] that one Israeli will be exchanged for a thousand Palestinians. Meaning - Israel is interested in planting among the Palestinian, the Arab or the world the concept of value - the value of a Jew and the value of an Arab... By this, Israel is trying to put a value on an Arab and a value on an Israeli or Jew..."
Published: 16:21 February 16, 2004
Add "subjugation of women" to the list and you have a concise and accurate summary of the ROP.
They needn't bother. I think we are all pretty clear on such relative values by now.
-ccm
What a world.
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