Official PA daily: Arafat employed 'revolving door' policy of releasing terrorists soon after their arrest
Headline: “The Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations: The Essence of the Solution,” by Adel Abd Al-Rahman, columnist for official PA daily
“The occupation forces have turned to the ‘revolving door’ policy,” the policy that Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat established the other way around, when, under the pressure of security coordination with Israel, he arrested Palestinian fighters and released them soon after. For whenever they [Israel] free prisoners, after much effort [on our part], they come back soon and arrest them again, one after the other, along with hundreds of others. Furthermore, they are now turning to [the policy of] killing some of them with the excuse that they were resisting arrest.
The world convened the ‘Geneva 1’ international convention over Syria… and why shouldn’t the Palestinians have their own ‘Geneva’? ... Yet turning to the UN or convening a ‘Palestinian Geneva’ does not mean giving up the program of struggle for the land through popular resistance – [resistance which is,] at this stage, peaceful, but which leaves the path open for the various [other] forms of resistance in the future. For whatever is not achieved by peaceful means will be achieved by other means.”
“The occupation forces have turned to the ‘revolving door’ policy,” the policy that Martyr (Shahid) Yasser Arafat established the other way around, when, under the pressure of security coordination with Israel, he arrested Palestinian fighters and released them soon after. For whenever they [Israel] free prisoners, after much effort [on our part], they come back soon and arrest them again, one after the other, along with hundreds of others. Furthermore, they are now turning to [the policy of] killing some of them with the excuse that they were resisting arrest.
The world convened the ‘Geneva 1’ international convention over Syria… and why shouldn’t the Palestinians have their own ‘Geneva’? ... Yet turning to the UN or convening a ‘Palestinian Geneva’ does not mean giving up the program of struggle for the land through popular resistance – [resistance which is,] at this stage, peaceful, but which leaves the path open for the various [other] forms of resistance in the future. For whatever is not achieved by peaceful means will be achieved by other means.”