Sunday, September 17, 2006
Have you looked at Fatah's (aka Fateh, aka the PLO) Constitution lately?
Let's extract a few key bits:
Article (1) Palestine is part of the Arab World, and the Palestinian people are part of the Arab Nation, and their struggle is part of its struggle...
Article (4) The Palestinian struggle is part and parcel of the world-wide struggle against Zionism, colonialism and international imperialism...
Article (6) UN projects, accords and reso, or those of any individual cowhich undermine the Palestinian people's right in their homeland are illegal and rejected.
Article (7) The Zionist Movement is racial, colonial and aggressive in ideology, goals, organisation and method.
Article (8) The Israeli existence in Palestine is a Zionist invasion with a colonial expansive base, and it is a natural ally to colonialism and international imperialism...
Goals:
Article (12) Complete liberation of Palestine, and eradication of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural existence.
Article (13) Establishing an independent democratic state with complete sovereignty on all Palestinian lands, and Jerusalem is its capital city, and protecting the citizens' legal and equal rights without any racial or religious discrimination...
Article (15) Active participation in achieving the Arab Nation's goals in liberation and building an independent, progressive and united Arab society...
Method:
Article (17) Armed public revolution is the inevitable method to liberating Palestine...
Article (19) Armed struggle is a strategy and not a tactic, and the Palestinian Arab People's armed revolution is a decisive factor in the liberation fight and in uprooting the Zionist existence, and this struggle will not cease unless the Zionist state is demolished and Palestine is completely liberated...
Article (22) Opposing any political solution offered as an alternative to demolishing the Zionist occupation in Palestine, as well as any project intended to liquidate the Palestinian case or impose any international mandate on its people...
Article (24) Maintaining relations with all liberal forces supporting our just struggle in order to resist together Zionism and imperialism.
Article (25) Convincing concerned countries in the world to prevent Jewish immigration to Palestine as a method of solving the problem...
So tell me again who's going to moderate whom?
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I bet the United Nations wrote all of it.
Heheh. :)
Asking Hamas to become more "moderate" would be like, in the 1930's and 1940's, asking the Nazi Party to "moderate".
I got into a "debate" with Richard Silverstein where he called me a clueless neo con zionist for informing him that Fatah NEVER amended their Constituion and Clinton and Israel let it slide at the meeting where they were supposed to vote on it it got tabled and was never brought up again.
And I didn't have the link to the article at the time.
Could you do me A HUGE favor and email that bozo at his website richardsilverstein.com and post the back and forth on line.... I'll buy you dinner next time you're in New York City.
Mike
Hey, I'm never one to pass up a free meal, but spending time swapping email with the individual you name is not my idea of time well spent.
Then just post it on his comments section. I'll throw in some other bonuses I'm sure you'd appreciate as well.
"Just Do It!"
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Thanks.
Mike