Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Not a typo! It's just that they always tell the truth other places than here.
MEMRI TV: PLO Ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki: We Consider the U.S to Be an Enemy Country
Following are excerpts from an interview with PLO Ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki, which aired on OTV on November 7, 2008.
bbas Zaki: We consider the U.S. to be an enemy because its only strategic alliance is with Israel.
Interviewer: How could you possibly accept your enemy in your land?
Abbas Zaki: What do you mean? We meet even with Israel.
Interviewer: How can you consider Israel to be your enemy, if you signed a peace treaty with it?
Abbas Zaki: Allow me... This enemy... If I had the capabilities of the U.S. - would I be fighting it or negotiating with it?
Interviewer: Israel ceased being an enemy once you signed a peace treaty with it. I don't know how it could be your enemy. Do you talk to the Israelis as if they were your enemies? Do you talk to Israel as a friendly or enemy country?
Abbas Zaki: An enemy country, which owes us certain things. The heroic Vietnamese used to negotiate with the French, while they were slaughtering them.
Interviewer: I can assure you that in his speeches, Abu Mazen says the U.S. is a friendly country.
Abbas Zaki: Well, this isn't true. Perhaps Abu Mazen, in his position, needs to use diplomatic language, but he is the greatest critic of the U.S.
This is the truth and everyone knows it, yet PLO 'Ambassador' to the United States, Afif Safiyeh, is a regular guest at American forums, including appearances before Jewish groups. He doesn't usually say things like this, though.
I like that "If I had the capabilities of the U.S. - would I be fighting it or negotiating with it?"-bit (referring to Israel). Another truth. So since Israel has the capability it does compared to all the Palestinian Arab factions combined, should it, by this standard, be fighting or negotiating? Turnabout being fair play, after all.
