 Dr. Ramadan Shallah, secretary general of the Islamic Jihad Movement, has held the Zionist regime fully responsible for the death of PA chief Yasser Arafat.
| "Yeah. They dunnit. I know they dunnit." |
Shallah, in an interview with daily Al-Shark Al-Awsat in Cairo, said that the Zionist occupation authorities had been imposing a tight siege to the headquarters of Arafat for the past three years, which greatly affected his health and strength. The Islamic Jihad leader also said that his Movement was not ready to participate in any Palestinian authority that was based on the Oslo agreements.
| "Nope. Nope. Ain't gonna do it. An' you can't make us." |
"However, we are prepared to discuss any other formula grouping the PA and the Palestinian factions over common grounds," he pointed out, hoping that the PA would give up the Oslo agreements altogether in order to make such a formula possible. Shallah expressed conviction that there would be no feudal fighting among the Palestinians and added that Palestinians should unite in face of the ceaseless Zionist aggression. He said that Islamic factions in the Palestinian arena have expressed readiness to join the PLO after restructuring it on new democratic and struggle basis. |