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| Jailed Fatah lawmaker: Attack on Gaza is 'genocide' | |
| 2009-01-04 | |
Ma'an -- A senior Fatah lawmaker issued a statement from his Israeli prison cell on Saturday condemning Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip as "genocide."
"The crippling siege of the Gaza Strip over more than a year and a half, along with closure of crossing points with Arab countries, is not less harmful than military aggression going on now," he added. At-Tirawi also reiterated the resentment of the Arab public at their governments for not taking more effective action to aid the people of Gaza. He said: "We expected Arab foreign ministers who met in Cairo to come up with a decision that matches the pulse of the streets in Arab countries who showed extreme solidarity with Gaza and Palestine. Unfortunately, they cancelled an Arab League summit which was scheduled to be held soon in order to adopt a joint Arab stance towards Israeli aggression on Gaza and to demand immediately lifting the crippling siege." At-Tirawi applauded calls by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas' leader Khalid Mash'al for unity. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Gaza is a bloody rookery, OP. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-01-04 14:26 |
| #1 "This aggression, using one of the most advanced military arsenals in the world against an area under the attacker's occupation, is a war crime and genocide." From Israelicool: Here, IÂ’ll lift BruceÂ’s comment since it is a pearler: Number of Palestinian Arabs in 1948 = 1,308,00. Number of Palestinian Arabs in 2008 = 10,574,521. Israeli attempted genocide of Palestinian Arabs over 60 years = EPIC FAIL! |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-01-04 13:41 |