Saturday 17 September 2011

Palestinian Statehood - Some Profiles



His family came to Gaza City in 1948 as refugees from Beit Jirja, a village that has now been absorbed into the Israeli town of Sderot, a town just across the border at which his fellow militants regularly fire rockets. He joined the Islamic Jihad movement when he was at high school, but it was only during the second intifada that he became active in the group's militant wing, al-Quds Brigade.


"The Israeli occupation is an overt act of violence against Palestinians and I believed military action was the only way to liberate our land," he explains. "I saw we had two choices, victory or martyrdom." Full details here.

2 comments:

  1. What gets me is that the world is looking on this as if it is a vote for vanilla, or chocolate ice cream.
    It is not.
    It is about the dignity, lives, and future of the Palestinian people.
    It is also about the immediate future of Israel.
    People seem to think that a [III} is out of the question.
    On the contrary it come much sooner than people would ever imagine.
    Freedom seeking people would rather die on their feet, than to exist on their knees.

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  2. I invite you to check out my next entry:

    http://theanalogkid-jlee077.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-anti-americanpan-islamic-alliance.html

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