Subject: PLO Offenses
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 23:50:07 +0000
To: "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>
From: Tony Valasek
To: heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Subject: PLO Offenses
I am trying to gather information concerning the many violations that
the PlO has committed. I know such lists appeared on this list before
but I did not keep them, I am preparing to write an article on this
subject, I have just about had it with hearing "Israel should give their
land up as part of their agreement." Please send this to me directly
unless Eddie feels that this would benefit all, I don't want to increase
his workload.
May God bless you richly,
Tony Valasek
>From Eddie:
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Tony,
In order to help you out, you need to go to the following Web
sites:
1) http://www.netaxs.com/people/iris/quotes.htm
2) http://www1.tip.nl/~t717080/home/plo.htm
3) http://www.likud.org.il/know/plo.html
4) http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2175/plo.html
5) http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2175/ploquote.html
6) http://freeman.io.com/m_online/jul96/violatns.htm
This should help to get you started.
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From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: MEMRI's Special Report--The Palestinians and Iraq:
To: imra@netvision.net.il
MEMRI's Special Report--The Palestinians and Iraq:
Palestinian Media Review <pmr1@mail.netvision.net.il>
Phone 972-2-6254140
Fax 972-2-6242803
Statements, Articles, and Public Sentiments
in the Palestinian Media
July 1997-February 1998
The following document includes translated excerpts of Palestinian
statements and articles in the press. MEMRI's material should be cited
with attribution only.
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Table of Contents
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1. Palestinian Statements
2. Op-Ed Articles in the Palestinian Press
3. Palestinian-Iraqi Relations
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1.Palestinian Statements
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"In a speech delivered at the Islamic Summit in Teheran, Arafat called
for canceling the cruel UN sanctions against Iraq, as well as the
sanctions against Libya and the Sudan." Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, December
10, 1997 --------------------------------------
"Yesterday in Hebron a large rally was held in support of the Iraqi
people who faces American arrogance. Secretary General of the
Palestinian Authority Presidency, Al-Tayyeb Abd Al-Rahim, represented
President Arafat ... and delivered a speech on his behalf in which he
said: 'By its support, the Palestinian people shows its gratitude to
its brothers in Iraq. The words said by President Saddam Hussein to
President Arafat still reverberate loudly in our ears: 'If you do not
win this war, then we will not win, and if you do win [the
significance of this will be] that we shall win.' American aggression
against Iraq is aggression against Arab national security and against
Iraq's sovereignty and that of the Arab people...'
Minister of Supply, Abu Ali Shaheen... expressed his willingness to
fight as a soldier against anyone fighting Iraq." Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,
December 1, 1997 ------------------------------------
"The Fatah movement called upon all the official and popular Arab
forces to unite in order to face the challenge which confront the
entire Arab nation and in order to end the suffering of the brother
Iraqi people, who has never been stingy in sacrificing themselves for
Palestine and in defending the Arab nation as a whole.
In a public statement published yesterday by the Fatah movement, it
expressed its denunciation of the latest American escalation and
called upon the UN to accept responsibility, put an end to this
escalation, and find a peaceful solution to the fabricated crisis
against Iraq... especially since Iraq has repeatedly said that it is
committed to the decisions of the international legitimacy.
Despite Iraq's acceptance of the UN's [demand] to close the file on
weapons of mass destruction and despite the fact that there were signs
of an opportunity to end the suffering of the Iraqi people, sharp
disagreements have suddenly broken out between the US and Iraq, caused
by the American attempt to put additional sanctions [on Iraq]. The US
started raising the tensions using the Americans on the international
inspection teams in [acting under] Washington's instructions..."
Al-Hayat AL-Jadida, November 12, 1997
-------------------------------------
"In a meeting of the Palestinian Legislative Council that took place
yesterday... the Political Committee denounced the American threats
against Iraq and demanded to resolve the current conflict
peacefully... The Committee also demanded to immediately remove the
siege of Iraq, Sudan, and Libya...
Council Member Abd Al-Fatah Hamail proposed to publish an announcement
denouncing the American aggression against the Arab nation and the
peoples of Iraq, Sudan, and Libya. [He] demanded that the Council
would send letters of support to the Heads of Parliament in those
states. Council Member, Nahedh Al-Rayyis supported this proposal...
Member of the PLO's Executive Committee, Zakariya Al-Agha, said that
the treatment of Iraq is very far from being just... Al-Hayat
AL-Jadida, November 11, 1997 -------------------------------------
PLO Factions in a communique:
"The purpose of the American provocations against the Iraqi government
and its people is to humiliate the Arab Nation and harm Iraq. The US
uses its influence in order to put pressure on the international
[inspection] committee in a way that serves its purpose in continuing
the siege on Iraq.
The Arab nation, after having exposed the falsehood of the American
promises of reaching a political settlement to the Israel-Arab
conflict, based on international legitimacy and on the right of the
Palestinian people for self-determination on its land and the
establishment of its independent state - has encountered in the
American policy nothing but additional bias in favor of Israel and a
demand put to the Arabs to normalize economic relations, while Israel
still occupies lands in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria'.
The PLO factions condemned the American policy that contains nothing
but hatred of Iraq and Arab people. They demanded that the UN Security
Council and the International Committee do follow the American
pro-Israeli policy that ignores the tragedy of the Iraqi people.
The factions that released the communique were:
'Fatah', 'The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine', 'The
Palestinian Democratic Union', 'The Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine', 'The Popular Struggle Front', 'The
Palestinian Liberation Front', 'The Palestinian People's Party', and
'The Arab Liberation Front'. Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, January 19, 1998
------------------------------------
"The Political and National Guidance Directorate of the Jenin
District demanded the Arab and Islamic states and the Palestinian
public to stand by Iraq and its people against American aggression.
An announcement published by the Guidance Directorate... emphasized
that the goal of the US cruel attack on Iraq is to subordinate the
Iraqi people and leadership to American hegemony, and to seize its
land, its oil and its natural resources.
The announcement also said that the defense and support of Iraq is in
fact like protecting the land of Palestine and its people.
In the announcement the National Guidance Directorate called on the
Arab and Islamic nations for a higher level of confrontation in order
to liberate [themselves] from foreign rule... The purpose of the White
House threats is to subjugate Iraq and to disarm it of its strength,
in order to facilitate [American] domination of the area as a whole."
Al-Quds, November 17, 1997 --------------------------
"The [Palestinian] Association of Engineers-the Jerusalem branch
published a public statement in which it described the American
threats [to Iraq] as provocative to Arab and Islamic feelings as well
as to the will of the International community. The announcement
accused the Americans of using a double-standard in dealing with the
region's problems. Al-Quds, November 19, 1997
--------------------------
"The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. sharply denounced
the American attack and threats against Iraq... In another
announcement, published by the Arab Liberation Front, the Front
emphasized that it stands by the sister Iraq... The Front called to
act in every way against the American danger, which threatens all Arab
peoples..." Al-Quds, November 9, 1997 -------------------------
"High ranking officials in 'The Arab Liberation Front' and in the
[Palestinian] Ba'ath Party said that the Palestinian fighters stand
alongside the brother Iraqi people and the Iraqi leadership in the
struggle against the American administration's condescending policy
against the Arab nation and especially against the Palestinian and
Iraqi peoples... 'Awad Al-'Aruqi, leadership member of the 'Liberation
Front', announced the opening of a gate for volunteering against this
policy..." Al-Quds, November 12, 1997 --------------------------
"In Ramallah the 'Arab Palestinian Front' called upon all Arabs to act
with determination and jointly to remove the oppressive siege of their
Iraqi brothers. A member of the politbureau and the Secretary of the
'Front,' Omar Abu Leil, said that the denunciations and rallies are of
little value while hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children die for
lack of food and medications." Al-Quds, November 19, 1997
--------------------------
"The National and Islamic Forces in Gaza called for a removal of the
exploitative siege from the sister Iraq and condemned the American
policy in the area... They called for a revival of Arab and Muslim
solidarity, which will assure Iraq's return to the Arab home as an
active force supporting the national Palestinian issue." Al-Ayyam,
November 7, 1997 --------------------------
"Sheik Nafez 'Azzam [leader of 'The Islamic Jihad' in Gaza] called
upon the Arab and Islamic nation to strongly oppose the American
hegemony emphasizing that its goal was not only to hurt Iraq but to
terrorize the whole world and cause everyone to submit to American and
Israeli will..." Al-Quds, November 10, 1997 --------------------------
The leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheik Abdallah Nimr
Darwish: "The American campaign against Iraq comes after signs of
reconciliation and rapprochement between Iraq and many of the Arab
states. The US fights against any step toward Arab rapprochement and
against any spark of hope for cooperation between the Arab and Islamic
states. The US is today the only policeman of the world... and this
policeman strives to reorganize the world according to its faulty
international order...
The fabricated American attack against Iraq wraps itself as usual in a
cloak of the so-called 'international legitimacy' in order to leave
the Arab world in a whirlpool of inner conflicts and
self-destruction... When the US wakes up from its power-craze and
becomes a civilized state which examines [matters] according to the
principles of justice and treats others with respect, we will be among
the first to view it as a friend and even more than a friend; but the
US is still hostile to our problems and lays obstacles in the way of
our unity and our cooperation.
We recognize our strength and our size and recognize also the strength
and size of the US, but we are absolutely convinced that the strong
does not [forever] remain strong and the weak does not [forever]
remain weak. Only Allah is unchangeable." Al-Quds, November 14, 1997
--------------------------
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2. Op-Ed Articles in the Palestinian Press
==========================================
An Al-Hayat Al-Jadida editorial entitled 'No... To The American Wolf'
reads: ".The time has come-not today, but years ago-that we activate
our throats as Arabs and say: 'Enough, America; you are not a
policeman on the vice squad; you are not the conductor of the symphony
orchestra of the world; you are not an international investigative
court, punisher and executor; it is inconceivable that your military
strength endows you with the right to enslave nations poor in
resources but with roots deeper than your fifty-state kindergarten.
Before the time passes, the Arab must act on both the popular and
official levels and prove that they are not a herd of sheep for the
American wolf." Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, February 4, 1998
------------------------------------
Columnist Dr. Nasri Qumsiyya in an article entitled 'Who's Encouraging
the New American Aggression against Iraq?': ".We state with resolve:
the American President may commit fornication with Jewish Monica and
others, bet he must not commit 'political fornication' against either
the Iraqi or the Palestinian people, or [against] the Arabs as a
whole. Our Pristine Land-cradle of religion and civilization-vomits
out every form of fornication, be it sexual or political. The Iraqi
people will not [be turned into] scapegoat for our contemporary Don
Joan's adventures; it is a people of giants not of perverts." Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, February 2, 1998 ------------------------------------
Columnist Hassan Al-Batal, in an article entitled 'Saddam the First':
"Saddam Hussein is ranked first among Arab leaders...according to a
recent survey among students at Bir Zeit University. Generally
speaking, Palestinians believe Iraq, especially after it convinced
them with 39 proofs [meaning the 39 SCUD missiles launched on Israel
during the Gulf War]. Iraq talks and does." Al-Ayyam, July 21, 1997
-----------------------
The editor of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Hafez Al-Barghuthi in an article
entitled "Cowboy Mentality": "...Iraq will not succeed in the conflict
against the US... but the firm Iraqi stand against the dinosaur
military apparatus which is based on the myth of the blood-spilling
cowboy who chases Indians will remain an achievement...
The warning-signs will light for the American people only after the
American Ambassador escapes defeated from the Embassy's roof, and
after 45,000 bodies of American soldiers will return to the US like
airmail... This is the same mentality which caused the Marines to
enter Beirut-and to run away from it, after one bold action was
carried out by a Shahid [martyr] who suckled from his mother's bosoms
a pure Jihad tradition...
If most Americans support hurting Iraq it is because they think it
will be a television war, without American bodies. But Arab reality will not
remain frozen. It can change and can return gifts to the US via
airmail. The Arab mothers will not be the only ones crying..."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November 23, 1997
-------------------------------------
The editor of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida Hafez Al-Barghuthi in an article
entitled 'America's Arrogance': "...History does not remember the
United States, but it remembers Iraq, the cradle of civilization, and
it [remembers] Palestine, the cradle of religions. History remembers
every piece of Arab land, because it is the bosom of human
civilization. On the other hand, the murders of humanity, the creators
of the barbaric culture and the blood- suckers of nations, are doomed
to death and destined to shrink to a microscopic size, like
Micronesia." Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November 15, 1997
-------------------------------------
The editor of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Hafez Al Barghuthi, in an article
entitled "War Merchants": "The British Foreign Secretary blamed Russia
of working to cancel the sanctions on Iraq... so that Iraq would repay
its debts [to Russia], and forgot that his country and the US
conducted a war... against Iraq for economic reasons...
They [the Americans and the British] are war merchants and oil and
blood suckers who do not strive for peace and stability. This is the
Colonialist mentality which still leads Britain and the US to a single
[path]..." Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November 24, 1997
-------------------------------------
The editor of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Hafez Al-Barghuthi, in an article
entitled 'Destruction': "While the Americans are investing efforts in
forcing searches [for weapons of mass destruction] in the palaces of
Iraq... one of the senior members of the supervisory team expressed
his deep sorrow for the placement of a sign denouncing the US at
Al-Habaniya airport.
For the Swedish member of the supervisory team this sign was more than
he could bear; the sign denounced the American dinosaur, that eats
children's flesh and forces siege on a nation with roots, which dwarfs
the phony cowboy culture of fast food and looting of nations...
This is the theory of western superiority over the entire Arab people,
[the theory that] dreams of destroying the Arab race, since it opposes
American evil which inherited the old and the new colonialism."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November 30, 1997
-------------------------------------
The editor of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Hafez Al-Barghuthi, in an article
entitled 'Let Us Revolt!': "Iraq has the right to expel the American
spies in the UN Security Council's Observer Mission who work to
prolong the siege and to keep Iraq's land prey to the American and
Turkish sharks...
The Arabs who are put under siege by the American Navy and by
international decisions... have the right to revolt against the siege.
The Sudan has the right to revolt, Libya has the right to revolt, and
the Palestinian people has the right to rebel against the Israeli
siege supported by the US, against the settlements supported by the
US, against the oppression supported by the US and against the empty
negotiations that the US nullified.
It is high time that this nation revolted against American tyranny. We
are not their slaves and we should never become their slaves... We
still have pride, courage, and a belief in Allah and in America's
heresy. " Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November 31, 1997
-------------------------------------
In an article entitled 'Massacre of the Children', The editor of
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Hafez Al-Barghouti responds to an article
published by the New York Times, reporting that American customs
caught a network smuggling milk for children from the US to Iraq: "
...The Iraqi people is facing a power without conscience that thinks
that mother's milk is dangerous goods... The Americans are tightening
the embargo on the milk, out of a fear that Iraqi children will drink
milk and will not die.
Washington is waging a war of extermination against the Iraqi people
under the guise of a war with its government. Never has it happened,
not even in the barbaric history of oppressive and exploitative
nations..., that children were targeted as an objective for death by
starvation and disease, as is happening now in the American war
against Iraqi children...
The sighs of the dying children will continue to echo in our ears...
as curses [which will cause us] to spill [our anger] when the day
comes-the day of paying back the debt for the act of barbarism coming
from across the ocean." Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, December 2, 1997
------------------------------------
The editor of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida of the paper, Hafez Al-Barghuthi:
"Immediately following the Gulf War James Baker spied on the Arab
countries in order to bring the Arab capitals-which transformed into
obedient females-under Israeli protection, after they had already been
put under American protection during the Gulf War...
An American U-2 plane, which flies now in Iraqi skies, says to the
Arab capitals "You Too," namely, "your turn will come," because no
capital will be saved from American punishment...
The target of the abhorrent display which is conducted on Iraq's body
is not the Iraqi regime alone, rather the Iraqi people and its history
as well; [and that] in order to terrorize the whole Arab world and
cause it to throw up its Arabism, its religion and its history and
remain at the periphery of the 21st Century, as the humiliated slave
of bloodsuckers, those who steal the nation's bread and plunder the
lands.
Will these [Arab] regimes use the opportunity to say 'no,' or will the
Arab people under siege [be the ones] who will have to break the siege
one way or the other? Allah willing [this will] occur shortly."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November 11, 1997
-------------------------------------
The editor of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Hafez Al-Barghuthi in an article
entitled 'Clinton Draws His Sword': "While the countdown for an
impending attack on Iraq is underway, Clinton's great ouster from the
White House, lying on a bed rather than a stretcher is also impending.
The question that begs itself is: what comes first, the blow to Iraq
or the blow to the President [Clinton]? It is believed that the
President will achieve a temporary lull which will enable him to draw
his sword against at the Arabs, for killing Arabs is not deemed
punishable according to the American Lexicon of Morals." Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, January 26, 1998 ------------------------------------
Columnist 'Izat Al-Ghazawi in an article entitled 'The USA and Satan's
Role': ".The greatest US aspiration is to establish its role as the
sole policeman of the world and dictate humiliating terms of
submission to the Arab world, especially when the resumption of the
Israeli-Palestinian dialogue is being discussed. Iraq, without a
doubt, does not want to engage in war with anyone and does not wish to
develop weapons of mass destruction, yet it suffers siege and
starvation. However, it is Iraq's right to defend its trampled pride
and it is our own right to doubt the US intentions' [as the US] grants
to whomever it favors and denies from whomever it wants.." Al-Ayyam,
November 2, 1997 --------------------------
Columnist Khalil Al-Sawahri writes:
"...No one knows where the present crisis between the mighty Empire of
Evil and the Iraqi people who sinks under the burden of hunger,
diseases and siege lead. However, it is clear that the US and its
tail, the British ally, will not let go of Iraq and that in their
hatred of Iraq they want it to enter the 21st Century only after its
goes back to the stone age. The hateful Western racism is trying to
wipe Iraq off the face of the earth just like it erased the Arab rule
in general and deprived it of the ability to exist independently of
the American-Zionist hegemony." Al-Ayyam, November 18, 1997
---------------------------
Columnist Rashid 'Ali Hijazi writes:
"...Iraq is our hope and the eastern gate of the homeland. Supporting
it is a national [Palestinian] duty. Iraq's honor and sovereignty are
a part of the Arab nation's honor and sovereignty. During the Gulf
war it was proven that Iraq is the only one who can stand up to the
challenge. Suffice it to say that the [Israeli] settlement [activity]
did not cease for thirty years except during the Gulf war..." Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, November 18, 1997 -------------------------------------
Columnist Fuad Abu Hijla in an article entitled 'A Plot in the White
House': "Neither Paula Jones, nor Jennifer Flowers, nor another
million possible women encountered by the handsome American President
could set him up without prior political decision taken by the Jewish
clique, shaping American foreign policy in all respects.
Nonetheless, Clinton won't easily give in. In this situation, there
isn't a better American way out than to attack Iraq under the pretext
of 'doing away with a dictatorial regime', a regime albeit having-by
Oriental standards-a President more handsome than the blonde American
one and one whose figurehead is not implicated in sex scandals."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, January 27, 1998
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3. Palestinian-Iraqi Relations
======================================================================
Minister of Public Works, 'Azzam Al-Ahmad: "Contacts between Arafat
and Saddam Hussein have not ceased, not even for a moment... during
the latest crisis in Iraq... Arafat transferred a letter to Saddam
Hussein, emphasizing that the Palestinian people stand by their
brothers, the Iraqi people, with regards to the threats against them."
Al-Ayyam, December 6, 1997 --------------------------
"A Palestinian high-ranking official has disclosed that President
Arafat sent an envoy to Baghdad yesterday, carrying a message to
Iraq's president, Saddam Hussein. The envoy's mission was in the
framework of attempts to find a peaceful solution to the crisis,
preempting conflagration. The official stopped short of divulging the
content of the message. [He said] the envoy was the PLO's ambassador
to Iraq and minister of Public Works in the Palestinian Authority,
'Azzam Al-Ahmad. The official further disclosed that Arafat sent the
envoy after talks he had conducted in the West Bank with the US
Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, in which the Iraqi issue was
extensively discussed." Al-Quds, February 2, 1998
-------------------------
"Minister of Public Works, 'Azzam Al-Ahmad, the coordinator of
Palestinian- Iraqi relations, said in an interview with 'The Voice of
Palestine" after a visit of several days to Iraq during which he
transmitted a message from Arafat to brother Saddam Hussein:
"...Naturally during the visit we discussed the bilateral relations,
which we are fervently keeping alive and developing without taking the
present situation into consideration ...
Abu 'Ammar [Arafat] insisted that I go to Iraq at this time. I
delivered Abu Ammar's greetings to Saddam Hussein and even a letter
which I transmitted through the Iraqi Foreign Minister." The Voice of
Palestine Radio, December 2, 1997
----------------------------------------------
"Minister [of Public Works], 'Azzam Al-Ahmad, said that he
communicated to the Iraqi leadership the Palestinian Authority's and
the Palestinian people's position, which reject the attempts to hurt
Iraq... Al-Ahmad added that he met on Sunday in Baghdad with the Iraqi
Foreign Minister... And that they discussed the latest developments in
Palestine and Iraq and the ways to tighten the bilateral relations in
all areas." Al-Quds, November 25, 1997 --------------------------
"The Palestinian National Authority is making concerted efforts in
international circles to assure the delivery of $100m donated by Iraq
to the Palestinian people and the United Nations Works and Relief
Agency (UNRWA)... The donation was given two years ago. But the funds
were stopped from delivery by The UN Sanctions Committee.
As'ad Abd Al-Rahman, who heads the [Palestinian Authority's] Committee
for Refugees said Thursday, Oct 16, that he had been holding talks
with different organizations in the international community to ensure
that the Iraqi contribution is delivered." The Jerusalem Times,
October 24, 1997 -------------------------------------
"Udai Saddam Hussein, chairman of the Iraqi Olympic Committee met on
August 12 with a spokesman of the delegation from the 'Youth of
Al-Ra'i Al-Salih [Sports] Club from the Jericho District which
included As'ad Eid Mar'i, representative of the Palestinian Media
Association for Sports and correspondent for the newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida."
"The meeting began with warm blessings from Udai Saddam Hussein,
first-born son of the president of Iraq... who said that Palestine was
and remains in the heart of the Iraqi President and that the
liberation of Jerusalem is one of the subjects always before him as it
is in the hearts of the Iraqi people. He added that Iraq is open to
its Palestinian brothers [their] sports and other delegations and as
evidence presented [the fact of] the Iraqi Army's participation in all
the battles and wars that took place in the defense of Palestine and
for the just Palestinian cause. Iraq will continue to support the
Palestinian cause until Palestine wins its liberty and independence
and every handful of its land is liberated. He added that the
cemeteries of Iraqi martyrs in Palestinian cities are proof of that."
"Afterwards, Auni Hatar, head of the Palestinian delegation, spoke
about the cries of joy of Palestinian women and the happiness of all
Palestinians during the Gulf War when they saw the Iraqi missiles
filling Palestinian skies and hitting the enemy in his cities and
places. Hatar passed on blessings from the Palestinian people for
Udai's recovery [from an assassination attempt] and expressed his
happiness that Udai had begun walking again, as well as blessings from
the delegation and the Palestinian people as a whole to the Iraqi
leadership and above all to its leader Saddam Hussein, war hero of
the second 'Al-Qadisiya' battle [meaning the Gulf War]. Udai promised
to pass on the message to the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein... Iraqi
television broadcasted the meeting on the news which lasted 20
minutes..."
"Auni Hatar also gave an interview to Voice of Baghdad radio...The
delegation visited the Palestinian embassy in Baghdad on Aug. 11 and
met Najah Abd Al-Rahman the first secretary of the embassy." Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, August 23, 1997 -----------------------------------
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