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| Assad: Hamas Is Supported By Millions Of Palestinians |
| 2002-12-15 |
| Source: Palestine Information Centre Syrian president Bashaar Al-Assad has said that repercussions of war on Iraq would not be limited to that country but would drag the entire region to an unknown future. He says that like it's a bad thing... Assad, speaking to the British daily 'The Times' three days before a scheduled visit to London, opined that the USA had obstructed the return of international inspection teams to Iraq. "This is enough evidence that all what they wanted was striking Iraq", he elaborated. Either that, or that we believe it's an exercise in futility. Or both. The head of state refuted American administration's assertions that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was threatening the region. He affirmed, "We are the ones who give such a ruling because we live in the region". "Yeah. We're the ones that'd have to worry about having our colony taken away from us..." Assad then stressed his country's support to Palestinian Islamic organizations such as the Hamas and Islamic Jihad Movements because "They reflect the opinions of millions of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian lands". He added that those Palestinians were supported by 300 million Arabs and more than a billion Muslims in addition to millions of people worldwide. They're still thugs, though. Maybe that's why they have so much support... Assad underlined that confrontations in the Palestinian lands were in retaliation to Sharon's terrorism against Palestinian civilians. Asked on Middle East peace prospects, the Syrian president charged that the American administration's efforts were absolutely biased in favor of "Israel". Before Sharon, they were based on Barak's terrorism against Paleo civilians. And before him... He said that the Palestinians resorted to exploding themselves (in armed attacks against Zionist targets) in retaliation to "Israeli" murder sprees. Gotta watch those cycles of violence... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |