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| Nasrallah, Ahmadinejad slam peace talks |
| 2010-09-05 |
(Ma'an) -- Hezbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's diminutive President Mahmoud Short RoundAhmadinejad both slammed Israeli-Paleostinian peace talks at rallies in their respective capitals, Israeli media said. "These negotiations were born dead," Nasrallah said in a televised rally to mark Jerusalem Day in Beirut, the Israeli news site Ynet said. The Hezbullies chief cited polls which he said demonstrated the vast majority of Paleostinians object to the talks, re-launched in Washington after a 20-month hiatus. Nasrallah criticized President Abbas' decision to resume the talks, saying "No one has the right to cede a grain of Paleostine," Ynet reported. Meanwhile, in a televised Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran, Ahmadinejad said talks were "still born" and "doomed" to fail. Questioning the legitimacy of talks, he asked "What do they want to negotiate about? Who are they representing? What are they going to talk about?" Both leaders praised the "resistance" of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason. The movement grabbed credit for two shooting attacks in the 48 hours leading up to talks, which left four Israelis dead, including a pregnant woman and a mother of seven, and two injured. Nasrallah said Hamas, and other resistance groups, "need to hear voices of support from the Arab and Islamic world," the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. "The destiny of Paleostine will be determined in Paleostine through the Paleostinians' resistance - not in Washington, Paris or London," Ynet quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. |
| Posted by:Fred |