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Rajoub: Israel “exploited the Holocaust” and is committing “a second ‎Holocaust against the Palestinians”; Netanyahu is “the ugly face of ‎Mussolini and Hitler” ‎

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Video and text posted on the Facebook page of Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub

Posted text: “[Fatah Central Committee ‎Secretary] Jibril Rajoub in an interview ‎with the Kuwaiti satellite channel Al-‎Shahed on his visit to Kuwait and the ‎recent political developments.”‎

Video:‎
Fatah Central Committee Secretary ‎Jibril Rajoub: “For the first time a change ‎occurred in the behavior of the American ‎administration [following former US ‎President Donald Trump’s 2016 election]. ‎For the first time the American ‎administration is cooperating with the ‎path of the fascist right-wing that is ‎being led by [Israeli Prime Minister ‎Benjamin] Netanyahu, the ugly face of ‎‎[Benito] Mussolini and [Adolf] Hitler…‎

We are heading towards establishing the ‎independent Palestinian state, which is ‎an essential element in the equation of ‎the conflict, and no one will have peace, ‎security, or stability without us having ‎a state. I say to the members of our [Arab] ‎people in Kuwait and to our Arab and ‎Islamic depth: We are 7 million ‎Palestinians between the ‎‎[Mediterranean] Sea and the [Jordan] ‎River… and we will not wave a white flag ‎and will not submit-”‎

Kuwaiti satellite channel Al-Shahed ‎host: “And the Fatah Movement’s ‎resistance is continuing?”‎

Jibril Rajoub: “The clash with the ‎occupation has been continuing for 100 ‎years already, and the clash is [our] ‎connection [with the occupation] and the ‎strategic choice. At this stage, we are ‎saying popular resistance (i.e., term used ‎by Palestinians, which also refers to the ‎use of violence and terror)-”‎

Host: “Is Fatah’s armed resistance ‎continuing or are the talks with the Israeli ‎side putting an end to this matter?”‎

Jibril Rajoub: “Popular resistance is our ‎choice at this stage. In our national ‎dialogue [with Hamas it was determined ‎that] a general change of the clash with ‎the occupation is conditional on the ‎developments on the ground. Our ‎connection with the occupation is based ‎on a clash…‎

Look, [the Israelis] are really acting as if ‎they are the victim. You of course know ‎that they exploited the issue of the ‎Holocaust, which someone other than ‎us [caused], in other words, not the Arabs ‎or the Muslims. They were slaughtered ‎in Europe, it was a despicable ‎massacre, and we all oppose it and do ‎not accept it, but we did not do it – ‎neither we as Arabs nor we as ‎Muslims. But I say that what is ‎happening in Palestine is a second ‎holocaust. We are 14 million people ‎who are having an elimination and ‎erasing carried out against them ‎ geographically, historically, ‎humanly, religiously, and culturally. ‎The slaughter- of course, in the 21st ‎century [the occupation] cannot do what ‎was done in the 1940s, but what is the ‎difference? The murder of children, the ‎Gaza Strip was destroyed in three wars ‎‎(i.e., Operations Cast Lead, Pillar of ‎Defense, and Protective Edge, which ‎were all limited defensive responses to ‎indiscriminate Hamas rocket fire on ‎Israeli population centers), thousands of ‎people [were killed]. A third of the victims ‎are women and another third are ‎children, and 90% of them are citizens ‎who were walking on the street (sic., ‎Israel made efforts to avoid civilian ‎casualties while Hamas used human ‎shields; in Operation Protective Edge ‎approximately half of the casualties were ‎terrorists)… They are the criminals. ‎They are the murderers. They are the ‎lowly ones. And they are doing what ‎happened to them to the Palestinians.”‎

Jibril Rajoub

Peaceful\popular uprising/resistance

Gaza War 2014 / Operation Protective Edge

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