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Palestinian leader of Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party has come out in
support of the terror war being fought against the US and British
forces in Iraq. He expressed this support during an interview on
official Palestinian Authority (PA) Television, which is under the
control of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Mahmoud Ismail, member of the PLO Executive Committee,
further defines the US -Britain alliance fighting in Iraq as the Arab
Nation's "enemies, the imperialists," and justifies the "right to
struggle and to resistance [euphemism for terror] in all possible ways
in all the occupied lands." Among the occupied lands he includes
"Palestine" and Iraq.
PA TV shows Ismail in front row during Friday prayers
The following is from the interview with Mahmoud Ismail, member of the PLO Executive Committee.
"I
want to cite the actions and future actions of President [Abbas], from
the starting point that the Palestine cause is the essential and
central cause of the Arab Nation. It's not surprising that [to] certain
journalists of the current despicable American era, our [Arab
nationalist] language of the 50s and 60s is outdated, when we talk
about the nature of the struggle between the Arab Nation and its
enemies: the Imperialists and Zionists, who attack and occupy our
territories inside Palestine and outside, in Iraq, in the remains of
South Lebanon and the Golan.
"We [however,] take pride in this [Arab
nationalist] language because we are the authentic Arabs who believe in
our Arabism, our faith, our cause, our Nation, in our right to struggle
and to resistance [euphemism for terror] in all possible ways in all
the occupied lands, in Palestine, Lebanon the Golan and Iraq..." [Palestinian Television (Fatah) Feb. 26, 2008]