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| 2003-01-13 |
| Spokesman for the Orthodox Church in occupied Jerusalem Archimandrite Attallah Hanna praised Saturday, January 11, the âmartyrdom operationsâ, calling on Palestinian Christians and Arabs to do everything in their power to resist the Israeli occupation with every possible means. Receiving a formal delegation from the occupied city of Haifa, ... Haifa's "occupied"? Since 1948, I guess... Atallah said "those martyrs are the heroes of the nation. We are proud of them and vehemently reject any malicious attempts trying to cast doubt on their work," Al-Quds Press News Agency quoted him as saying. "They are not suicide bombers as some claim and they are not terrorists, rather, they resist occupation and we support martyrdom operations without any kind of reservations no matter what objectors and doubt-casters say about such a heroic kinds of resistance," he said. The Archimandrite, in addition, called for a joint Islamic-Christian action in order to throw a "spanner in war against Iraq," and to liberate all Palestinian territories, pointing out that if the Israeli authorities lifted the house arrest imposed on him and gave him back his passports, he would form a Christian delegation to go to Iraq to form a human shield against the potential U.S.-led military action on Baghdad. Sounds good. Give him his passport. Send him to Baghdad. Don't let him back in, assuming he survives â which I suspect he would. In an exclusive interview with IslamOnline, Attallah asserted his support for the operations, averring that "if the struggle for freedom of peoples is regarded as terrorism, then I am a terrorist." At least any questions we had on the subject are settled. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 "gave him back his passports" ... Criminy, yet another one with multiple passports. It's an epidemic. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-01-13 18:12:31 |
| #1 Do you want to understand Archy's mentality? Read Bat Ye'or's "Islam and Dhimmitude." |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-01-13 13:09:53 |