The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine today denounced the PLO executive committee chief Mahmoud Abbas' statement calling for demilitarizing the Aqsa intifada. A responsible source in the Movement said that such calls were harmful to the Palestinian people and cause. He charged Abbas, also a PA presidential hopeful, of deliberately reiterating such stands seeking the satisfaction of certain Zionist and international parties.
| That'd be us, of course... |
The spokesman affirmed that the intifada was the choice of all Palestinians and was not limited to a certain faction or group. Abbas should have rather focused on Zionist occupation's crimes in lines of the Palestinian people and to halt them if he could instead of "flirting" occupation with statements that only threatened unity of the Palestinian people. For their part, representatives of the Palestinian factions in Lebanon have issued a statement affirming insistence on the intifada and rejecting Abbas' position.
| "Yeah! Youse guys get out there and explode! We'll cheer you on from here in Beirut!" |
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