 RAMALLAH, West Bank - The continued existence of armed militias is an obstacle to the promised Palestinian state, Western-backed prime minister Salam Fayyad said on Thursday.
| Reeeeeeeaaally? Ya think? |
“Building towards statehood and independence on the one hand, and continuing to tolerate armed militias on the other, are two mutually exclusive paths that will never meet,” Fayyad said in an interview with the foreign press. “We are learning that from experience. We need to deal with this. That’s the key principle that needs to be understood, and understood clearly, and that has to be implemented.| Nonsense. The Paleo Bill of Right® Amendments 1 through infinity clearly states that the Right® of being necessary to keep and bear free Arms to a Militia and shall not be infringed by the regulated security people of any State. Also, death to Israel! |
| By the way, those are Legitimate Rights™. |
“Today that’s what we are beginning to do in the West Bank and that is something that should be generalised. We simply cannot go back to a situation where matters are taken into the hands of the people acting outside of the... Palestinian authority. This is the key requirement,” he said in the wide-ranging interview in English at his Ramallah office.
| What did he say in Arabic? |
Saying that actions done in the name of armed resistance had hurt the Palestinian cause, Fayyad said his government was committed to “non-violent steadfastness.” “We know that practices that were engaged in under this heading of armed resistance were most detrimental to our cause,” he said. “To me, a child scaling a checkpoint trying to go to his school is a form of resistance. It’s non-violent steadfastness. That’s our programme.” |