Palestinians: We are facing genocide and have to defend ourselves
Al-Khalil, April 1, IRNA -- Palestinians from disparate political and
ideological orientations have strongly rejected remarks by Zionist
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres condemning "suicide bomb attacks" as
immoral.
"Instead of blaming the defenseless victims for defending
themselves he should ask his Nazi-like army to stop its genocide of a
people who are struggling for freedom from occupation," said M.
Natshe, a Fatah leader in the West Bank town of al-Khalil.
Natshe accused Israel of pursuing a policy based on genocide and
ethnic cleansing towards the Palestinian people.
"Peres and his criminal cohorts are offering us either
annihilation or perpetual enslavement and occupation, we shall not
accept either, we insist on freedom and we are willing to sacrifice
our souls for it."
"People fight and die for their freedom, don't they? I don't
understand why (US President George) Bush can't understand this?"
Ahmed Hassan, a local Islamic leader in the town of Dura, 13
kilometers south west of al-Khalil, also blamed Israel for "pushing
the Palestinians to the martyr-bombing phenomenon."
"Martyr-bombing is not our strategy; it is not our goal, our
strategy is freedom from this diabolic military occupation, no nation
on the face of earth can accept perpetual rape and domination by
another nation."
He pointed out that the Palestinian people who, he said, were
going through a situation similar to that which the Jews faced during
WWII, had no choice but defend themselves with their bodies.
"We don't have an army, we don't have an air-force, we don't have
tanks, we don't have anything. The Arab world is totally powerless and
impotent, and the United States is telling Israel 'keep up the
killing.' So, what are we supposed to under these circumstances?
Abed Da'ana, an activist affiliated with the popular front for the
liberation of Palestine (PFLP) described Israeli officials remarks
about suicidal bombings as "misleading and mendacious."
"It is the Palestinian people who are facing a looming holocaust,
not the Jews. The inescapable truth now is Israel in 2002 is acting
like Nazi Germany in the 1940s, and the Palestinians are the victims,
very much like the Jews of Europe were more than 50 years ago."
On Sunday, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat Compared
the Israeli blitz against Palestinian population centers to the Nazi
atrocities against Jews.
Some Jewish intellectuals agreed with Arafat, citing moral
degeneration among Jews, especially in Israel.
NK/AA/AR
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