WEST
BANK, September 27 (IslamOnline.net) - On the third anniversary of
Al-Aqsa Intifada, most Palestinian resistance factions affirmed the
necessity of supporting it as the sole means for finishing the Israeli
occupation and called to invest it in favor of the Palestinian cause.
On
the other hand, an official of the Fatah movement, headed by President
Yasser Arafat told IslamOnline.net Saturday, September 27, that he
believed that negotiations are the best way to make use of the
Intifada.
Ahmed
Bahr, an official of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, expressed
his optimism concerning the future of the Intifada.
“Although
Israel owns modern aircraft, tanks and technology, thanks to Allah and
to Palestinian honest and loyal resistance fighters, the Intifada has
managed to gain momentum,” Bahr said.
The
Intifada has erupted on September 28, 2000, in protest of the visit
made by Ariel Sharon to the Al-Aqsa mosque courtyard, six months
before he took office as Prime Minister.
Bahr
called upon the Palestinian Authority not to respond to the U.S. and
Israeli pressures to stop the resistance, and urged the Palestinians
to unite, pointing out that “nothing would threaten the Intifada
except from within”.
He
told IOL that “the resistance is the remaining option for the
Palestinian people,” pointing out that other options have failed.
“There
is no justification for the Palestinian Authority to strike resistance
movements, as the facts on the Palestinian arena would not allow
this,” he said.
Bahr
underlined the necessity of boosting the Intifada and said that it
needs Palestinian unity and Arab as well as Islamic support.
He
pointed out that the Palestinian resistance, on the threshold of a
fourth year, seeks to develop its abilities in light of the occupation
forces seeking to undermine it by all means.
Hasty
Investment
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El-Ghoul
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Kayed
El-Ghoul, a member of the political bureau of the Palestine Liberation
Popular Front, criticized what he termed “non-investment of the
sacrifices made by the Palestinian people during the years of the
Intifada towards crystallizing a political view that conforms to the
will of the Palestinians”.
“There
are official authorities in the Palestinian arena that sought hasty
investment of the Intifada and showed readiness to submit
concessions,” he pointed out.
About
the future of the Palestinian resistance, El-Ghoul said, “the
Intifada is the only option we have, and hence it will remain and will
be the prime force for the struggle against the occupation.”
No
Goals Achieved
Islamic
Jihad Movement spokesman in Gaza Khaled El-Batsh said that the
Intifada has not fulfilled its objectives, adding that “the national
and Islamic forces have not reached a unified strategy through which
they can work for the sake of the Palestinian cause.”
“The
Palestinian Authority is still not on good terms with the resistance
forces. It does not protect or defend such forces as required,”
El-Batsh said.
The
Jihad Movement spokesman, however, expressed his optimism for the
ability of the Palestinian people to keep the Intifada going. “I
think the world community realizes that partial solutions are no
longer useful and there should be a lasting solution,” he added.
Against
The Intifada
For
his part, Mohamed El-Horany, a member of the revolutionary council of
Fatah Movement said that the performance of resistance forces along
the years of the Intifada was improvising and that negotiations are
the only means to reach and final solution.
He
expected that the way of resistance in the coming year would remain
the same, expressing his sorrow for the absence of planning and
coordination among different factions.
On
the other hand, El-Horany underlined the success of the Palestinian
Intifada which he described as a fighting tool that pressurizes the
Israelis to recognize the rights of the Palestinian people.
According
to a report by the Palestinian National Information Center, the number
of martyrs in three years amounted to 2740. It also noted that the
Israeli occupation forces have destroyed more that 4000 buildings in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Agence
France Presse (AFP) reported that 819 Israelis have been killed during
the same period.
