Monday, January 22, 2007
The Palestinian Authority's President says this?
I just can't understand how we expect peace to prevail there...
In the Jewish Press, Aaron Klein discusses the media's omission:
"In a major speech here last week in front of scores of international reporters, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on Palestinian factions to put an end to weeks of infighting and instead 'raise rifles against the Israeli occupation.'
Abbas also praised Hamas and said that Jews are corrupting the world.
But Abbas's call to arms and his anti-Semitic remarks were not reported by most media outlets featuring articles on the Palestinian leader's address.
'Shooting at your brother is forbidden. Raising rifles against the occupation is our legitimate right, but raising guns against each other is forbidden.'
'We should put our internal fighting aside and raise our rifles only against the Israeli occupation,' said Abbas in the speech, which commemorated the 42nd anniversary of the founding of his Fatah party."
