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"Captain Compassion" |
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31 Jan 2006 02:57:18 PM |
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We will not sell our people or principles for foreign ai |
We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aid
Palestinians voted for Hamas because of our refusal to give up their
rights. But we are ready to make a just peace
Khalid Mish'al
Tuesday January 31, 2006
The Guardian
It is widely recognised that the Palestinians are among the most
politicised and educated peoples in the world. When they went to the
polls last Wednesday they were well aware of what was on offer and
those who voted for Hamas knew what it stood for. They chose Hamas
because of its pledge never to give up the legitimate rights of the
Palestinian people and its promise to embark on a programme of reform.
There were voices warning them, locally and internationally, not to
vote for an organisation branded by the US and EU as terrorist because
such a democratically exercised right would cost them the financial
aid provided by foreign donors.
The day Hamas won the Palestinian democratic elections the world's
leading democracies failed the test of democracy. Rather than
recognise the legitimacy of Hamas as a freely elected representative
of the Palestinian people, seize the opportunity created by the result
to support the development of good governance in Palestine and search
for a means of ending the bloodshed, the US and EU threatened the
Palestinian people with collective punishment for exercising their
right to choose their parliamentary representatives.
We are being punished simply for resisting oppression and striving for
justice. Those who threaten to impose sanctions on our people are the
same powers that initiated our suffering and continue to support our
oppressors almost unconditionally. We, the victims, are being
penalised while our oppressors are pampered. The US and EU could have
used the success of Hamas to open a new chapter in their relations
with the Palestinians, the Arabs and the Muslims and to understand
better a movement that has so far been seen largely through the eyes
of the Zionist occupiers of our land.
Our message to the US and EU governments is this: your attempt to
force us to give up our principles or our struggle is in vain. Our
people who gave thousands of martyrs, the millions of refugees who
have waited for nearly 60 years to return home and our 9,000 political
and war prisoners in Israeli jails have not made those sacrifices in
order to settle for close to nothing.
Hamas has been elected mainly because of its immovable faith in the
inevitability of victory; and Hamas is immune to bribery, intimidation
and blackmail. While we are keen on having friendly relations with all
nations we shall not seek friendships at the expense of our legitimate
rights. We have seen how other nations, including the peoples of
Vietnam and South Africa, persisted in their struggle until their
quest for freedom and justice was accomplished. We are no different,
our cause is no less worthy, our determination is no less profound and
our patience is no less abundant.
Our message to the Muslim and Arab nations is this: you have a
responsibility to stand by your Palestinian brothers and sisters whose
sacrifices are made on behalf of all of you. Our people in Palestine
should not need to wait for any aid from countries that attach
humiliating conditions to every dollar or euro they pay despite their
historical and moral responsibility for our plight. We expect you to
step in and compensate the Palestinian people for any loss of aid and
we demand you lift all restrictions on civil society institutions that
wish to fundraise for the Palestinian cause.
Our message to the Palestinians is this: our people are not only those
who live under siege in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip but also the
millions languishing in refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria and
the millions spread around the world unable to return home. We promise
you that nothing in the world will deter us from pursuing our goal of
liberation and return. We shall spare no effort to work with all
factions and institutions in order to put our Palestinian house in
order. Having won the parliamentary elections, our medium-term
objective is to reform the PLO in order to revive its role as a true
representative of all the Palestinian people, without exception or
discrimination.
Our message to the Israelis is this: we do not fight you because you
belong to a certain faith or culture. Jews have lived in the Muslim
world for 13 centuries in peace and harmony; they are in our religion
"the people of the book" who have a covenant from God and His
Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him) to be respected and protected.
Our conflict with you is not religious but political. We have no
problem with Jews who have not attacked us - our problem is with those
who came to our land, imposed themselves on us by force, destroyed our
society and banished our people.
We shall never recognise the right of any power to rob us of our land
and deny us our national rights. We shall never recognise the
legitimacy of a Zionist state created on our soil in order to atone
for somebody else's sins or solve somebody else's problem. But if you
are willing to accept the principle of a long-term truce, we are
prepared to negotiate the terms. Hamas is extending a hand of peace to
those who are truly interested in a peace based on justice.
· Khalid Mish'al is head of the political bureau of Hamas
hoood88@hotmail.com
--
"The president and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing
their memory, or their backbone, but we're not going to sit by and
let them rewrite history." -- ***** Cheney 11/16/2005
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" -- Ambrose Bierce
"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy." -- John Updike
"Long term commitment in relationships is only necessary because it takes
so damn long to raise children. Marriage may well be some kind of trick
to keep the males around beyond sexual satiation." -- Captain Compassion
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net
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| User: "B1ackwater" |
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| Title: Re: We will not sell our people or principles for foreign ai |
31 Jan 2006 03:44:22 PM |
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:57:18 -0800, Captain Compassion
<daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net> wrote:
We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aid
Palestinians voted for Hamas because of our refusal to give up their
rights. But we are ready to make a just peace
COULD be that the Palestinians view of their "rights" is
just a bit defective. Seems they want a "right" to commit
genocide. Just ain't gonna happen ...
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| User: "Defendario" |
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| Title: Re: We will not sell our people or principles for foreign ai |
31 Jan 2006 10:05:44 PM |
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B1ackwater wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:57:18 -0800, Captain Compassion
<daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net> wrote:
We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aid
Palestinians voted for Hamas because of our refusal to give up their
rights. But we are ready to make a just peace
COULD be that the Palestinians view of their "rights" is
just a bit defective. Seems they want a "right" to commit
genocide. Just ain't gonna happen ...
Could it be that you are an ignorant, zionazi fuktard?
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