Tuesday, April 11, 2006
MEMRITV: Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Al-Zahar Defends "Martyrdom-Seeking Operations"
Interviewer: How will you deal with the issue of suicide operations against Israeli civilians? Abu Mazen condemns these operations. What will be your position?
Mahmoud Al-Zahar: These are not suicide operations. This is a despicable term used by the Israelis in order to say that these are suicide operations, knowing that suicide is forbidden in Islam. This is just for the sake of clarification. These are martyrdom-seeking operations, approved by all the authorities of the Islamic nation, who consider them to be the highest level of martyrdom. It is a form of resistance, and resistance against the occupation is legitimate.
When we have F-16 airplanes, Apache helicopters, espionage planes, helicopters, and tanks like theirs, we will use them - one army against the other. But as long as there is a nuclear arsenal facing an unarmed people, I believe this people has a right to defend itself with the means at its disposal.
He's right in a way, of course. Suicide bombing is approved by all the highest Islamic authorities.
Oh, come on! They had conventional armies from as many as seven surrounding Arab nations, vastly outnumbering the Israelis, at their disposal for three attempted wars of annihilation and that didn't do diddly squat for them which is why they resorted to terror attacks on civilian targets around the world. When that pissed off their supporters in the EU, they adopted suicide bombing as the most cost-effective way of murdering Jews.