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| 'Marching toward total ruin' |
| 2008-04-04 |
| A disillusioned True Believer. Zakariya Zubeidi, until not long ago the commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Jenin. What happened? Why did it die? "Why? Because our politicians are whores. Our leadership is garbage. Look at Ruhi Fatouh, who was president of the PA for 60 days, as Yasser Arafat's replacement. He smuggled mobile phones. Do you understand? We have been defeated. The political splits and schisms have destroyed us not only politically - they have destroyed our national identity. Today there is no Palestinian identity. Go up to anyone in the street and ask him, 'Who are you?' He'll answer you, 'I'm a Fatah activist,' 'I'm a Hamas activist,' or an activist of some other organization, but he won't say to you, 'I am a Palestinian.' Every organization flies its own flag, but no one is raising the flag of Palestine." Are you, who used to be a symbol of the intifada, saying, "We have been defeated, we have failed, the intifada is dead?" "Even Gamal Abdel Nasser admitted his defeat, so why not me? Come on, I'll tell you something. On Saturday there was a ceremony to mark the killing of one of our martyrs. They asked me to say a few words. What could I say? I can no longer promise that we will follow in the martyr's footsteps, as is customary, because I would be lying. So then one of the heads of Fatah came over to me and said, 'We are following in the footsteps of the martyrs, we are continuing the resistance.' And I told him that he is a liar. "I feel that they have abandoned us, the Al-Aqsa activists. They have left us behind and forgotten us. We are marching in the direction of nowhere, toward total ruin. The Palestinian people is finished. Done for. Hamas comes on the air on its television station and says 'Fatah is a traitor.' That is to say, 40 percent of the nation are traitors. And then Fatah does the same thing and you already have 80 percent traitors." Rest at the link... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #5 I blame Bush. |
| Posted by: eltoroverde 2008-04-04 22:11 |
| #4 We are marching in the direction of nowhere, toward total ruin. A twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles for recovery from addictive, compulsive, or other behavioral problems, originally developed by the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous for recovery from alcoholism. The first of the twelve steps is to admit you have a problem. |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-04-04 16:26 |
| #3 "We are marching in the direction of nowhere, toward total ruin. The Palestinian people is finished." Great. Hurry the hell up. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-04 15:29 |
| #2 We are marching in the direction of nowhere, toward total ruin. The Palestinian people is finished. He's right. They will go nowhere while they hold onto their failed ideology. (although I would say Gaza is already a total ruin) |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-04-04 13:47 |
| #1 I see all of this as positive. The worst thing that Israel can do is continue to attempt to treat the Palestinians as any form of a territory or nationless state. Rather - let the people have elections and suffer the consequences of their own actions. Only then can the Palestinian people see that the Jews are nothing more than scapegoats of their failed leadership. After electing leaders who would give them what they thought they really wanted - a chance to push the Jews into the sea, they are beginning to see it is their own leaders, not the Jews that are the source of their misery. |
| Posted by: Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-04-04 13:32 |