-Caveat Lector- (In response to a post originally on the cia-drugs list)
In a message dated 4/10/02 1:29:43 PM Central Daylight Time, webfairy writes: > http://www.moqawama.org/v_zionis/z_holoca.htm Interesting article, interesting site. This comes from a different part of the same site: http://www.moqawama.tv/page2/f_iaggrr.htm Searching for a way out of the current crisis…(5) One PA minister offers some practical thoughts April Wednesday 10-2002 Bitterlemons asks Yasser Abed Rabbo, the Palestinian Authority’s minister of information and culture, a series of questions on the current crisis in the “Israeli”-occupied Palestinian territories, and receives some pertinent answers. Bitterlemons: What do you see as the way out of this crisis? Yasser Abed Rabbo: The only way is to withdraw the “Israeli” military forces that have occupied the Palestinian cities of the West Bank. When the withdrawal is completed and when there is the chance to sit and negotiate, we need to have international protection. We cannot negotiate under the threat of “Israeli” tanks and artillery and airplanes; we cannot negotiate under threat of the renewal of occupation at any moment. There is a need for international protection. We are asking for it, we are in need of it and it is an essential part of the negotiation process. Q: Do you see (these kinds of guarantees) coming from the American administration? A: I think that the international protection should come not only from the Americans, but from the United Nations, Russia and the European Union. Q: There are some who say the United States’ reputation has been so damaged in Arab eyes that it cannot be involved. A: I think that the United States has destroyed its credibility in the Arab world for a very long time. It cannot regain this credibility unless it starts taking a position that departs from complete support of (“Israeli” Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon’s policy of “Israeli” war against the Palestinian people and of “Israeli” occupation of the Palestinian Authority areas. Every time we started implementing the Tenet Plan, for example, which is originally an American plan all the plans are American plans the American administration tends to explain these plans according to the “Israeli” interpretation. In Tenet, we refused from the beginning the condition of seven days without any incident. But the Americans accepted it and this gave Sharon months of continuing violence against the Palestinian people, under the pretext that there had not been seven days of non-violence. We don’t want to have hostile relations with the United States. On the contrary, we were among the first in the Arab world who condemned the attacks of Sept. 11, we were the first in the Arab world who said to bin Laden: “You cannot use the Palestinian cause and you do not represent Palestinian aspirations.” We were the first in the Arab world to say that terrorism is not the way to help the just causes of the Arab states, whether they be national, political or social. But these positions were not taken into consideration. On the contrary, the United States has increasingly adopted “Israeli” conditions. The Americans themselves say they know that these conditions are impossible to implement. But they accepted some of them and wanted us to accept them even though (they knew) that Sharon was playing a game and asking the US to pressure us. Q: It has been said that all of this has happened because the Palestinians were not willing to accept the Zinni paper. A: Well, look at that paper and you will see why we don’t accept it. In that paper, there are parts and phrases that if we accept them, we will have to accept what the “Israelis” are doing now to our people. We would have to accept the incursions and attacks under the pretext that this is (“Israeli”) self-defense to counter imminent so-called terrorist attacks against “Israel”. This paper added a phrase that was not originally in the Tenet plan, and which contradicts the Tenet plan completely that “Israel” will not make incursions in the Palestinian Authority areas, unless they are in self-defense or against imminent attacks. Who will interpret this? Of course, the “Israelis”, who will consider every attack as self-defense and say that they have information that a terrorist attack is imminent. If we accepted this, we would be worse than (South Lebanon Army commander) Antoine Lahd not only an agent, but an accomplice with the “Israelis” against our own people. The “Israelis” knew that it would be impossible for us to accept such conditions and the Americans, either with goodwill or full knowledge, fell into that trap. Q: And what about the Saudi proposal? A: The Saudi proposal represents our policy. We have said from the beginning that we want normalization of relations between the countries of the region, but on the basis of international resolutions, especially 242 and 338, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state within the borders of June 4, 1967, including East Al-Quds. This is our policy, in spite of the current difficult moment, in spite of the bloodshed, the war crimes against our people, in spite of the destruction we are facing in our cities and infrastructure, in spite of the “Israelis” killing hundreds and injuring thousands and despite that their army has entered every ministry and Palestinian institution. Nobody should believe that they are targeting terrorism. They targeted those who made peace with them and without whom there would be no peace: the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian leadership. For Sharon, the enemy is not terrorism, the enemy is peace. The representative of peace on the Palestinian side is the Palestinian Authority and its institutions. That is why they targeted them and did great damage to the security services the same security services that the Americans are asking to control violence and put an end to the situation. They have created an atmosphere of utmost nationalist hatred among the “Israeli” people against the Palestinian people and some of our extremists helped them in doing this through the suicide (martyrdom) attacks, which we condemn and do not represent us, nor the Palestinian people. These have been used to destroy the bridges of peace and to create channels of blood between us. We believe that peace will be the future. 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