Fatah leader: Israel is massacring Palestinians and killing children
Official PA TV program The State of Politics hosted Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul on his reactions to the accusations levelled at him by Benjamin Netanyahu on Mahmoud Abbas’ intentional incitement to violence.
Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul: “President Mahmoud Abbas has no [other] option. First of all, this is his choice and he has no other. He sees his people being massacred, his people’s children being killed – what does he want? Indeed: President Mahmoud Abbas has, on dozens of occasions, openly and explicitly called on the Palestinian people to defend Al-Aqsa. Indeed: during the Gaza War and the war in the West Bank, Hebron and Jerusalem, he declared it was our responsibility to defend our people. It is absolutely impossible to abandon this issue. Will we allow the criminal occupation to carry out all its crimes against the Palestinian people, and not act? [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu claimed -that, as a result of President Mahmoud Abbas’ statements, there is violence on the Palestinian side aimed against the Israeli side. Is this the [only] side he [Netanyahu] sees? Doesn’t he see the violence on the side of the settlers and his army against the Palestinian side?... Indeed: Mahmoud Abbas is the President of this people and the leader of its resistance, in the sense that he cannot do otherwise than call on the people to defend its holy places. There is no international law Netanyahu and his henchmen can find to prevent this. Indeed, we will all oppose this, both politically and on the ground.”
Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul: “President Mahmoud Abbas has no [other] option. First of all, this is his choice and he has no other. He sees his people being massacred, his people’s children being killed – what does he want? Indeed: President Mahmoud Abbas has, on dozens of occasions, openly and explicitly called on the Palestinian people to defend Al-Aqsa. Indeed: during the Gaza War and the war in the West Bank, Hebron and Jerusalem, he declared it was our responsibility to defend our people. It is absolutely impossible to abandon this issue. Will we allow the criminal occupation to carry out all its crimes against the Palestinian people, and not act? [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu claimed -that, as a result of President Mahmoud Abbas’ statements, there is violence on the Palestinian side aimed against the Israeli side. Is this the [only] side he [Netanyahu] sees? Doesn’t he see the violence on the side of the settlers and his army against the Palestinian side?... Indeed: Mahmoud Abbas is the President of this people and the leader of its resistance, in the sense that he cannot do otherwise than call on the people to defend its holy places. There is no international law Netanyahu and his henchmen can find to prevent this. Indeed, we will all oppose this, both politically and on the ground.”