A two-day International Conference called "Support for the Palestinian Intifada" will be held in Tehran on April 24-25. Iran's official IRNA news agency reports this week on an announcement by Secretary of the International Conference Ali Akbar Mohtashemi Pour's to this effect; according to Mohtashemi-Pour, some 50 non-governmental organizations from Moslem countries will take part in the conference. He added that PLO and other Israel-based Arab figures "taking part in the Intifada have been invited to the conference to explain the gloomy situation in Palestine and the process of Intifada."
He said that the conference is expected to "render support for the Palestinian Intifada, draw up strategy for the Palestinian uprising against occupation of the Palestinian territories and making decision on how to take practical steps to help the Palestinian Intifada..."
A recurring theme in the Arab and Moslem press over the past several months has been the lack of military balance between Israel and "the poor defenseless Palestinians." The notion of a planned Israeli genocide of Arabs living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza has also been central to the Arab campaign, despite the fact that Israel has been careful to pinpoint only terrorist and not civilian Arab targets. Along these lines, Mohtashemi-Pour said: "The Zionist regime, armed with advanced weapons has embarked on genocide of Muslim and Christian Arabs living in the occupied Palestinian lands while the Palestinian nation defending their basic rights and struggling to determine their own fate despite the shortage of armaments." IRNA was careful to note that the Rosh Hashanah Arab Assault, dubbed by the Arab world, "the Al-Aqsa Intifada" - started in September "with a publicized visit to holy Qods by Zionist war criminal Ariel Sharon." Arutz-7's Ron Meir calls the reader's attention to the February speech by PA "Information Minister" Imad Falouji to the effect that the intifada was a carefully-planned PLO reaction to the organization's disappointment with the results of the Camp David summit; there, Ehud Barak offered Yasser Arafat over 95% of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, sovereignty over eastern Jerusalem Arab neighborhoods and partial control over the Temple Mount.
He said that the conference is expected to "render support for the Palestinian Intifada, draw up strategy for the Palestinian uprising against occupation of the Palestinian territories and making decision on how to take practical steps to help the Palestinian Intifada..."
A recurring theme in the Arab and Moslem press over the past several months has been the lack of military balance between Israel and "the poor defenseless Palestinians." The notion of a planned Israeli genocide of Arabs living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza has also been central to the Arab campaign, despite the fact that Israel has been careful to pinpoint only terrorist and not civilian Arab targets. Along these lines, Mohtashemi-Pour said: "The Zionist regime, armed with advanced weapons has embarked on genocide of Muslim and Christian Arabs living in the occupied Palestinian lands while the Palestinian nation defending their basic rights and struggling to determine their own fate despite the shortage of armaments." IRNA was careful to note that the Rosh Hashanah Arab Assault, dubbed by the Arab world, "the Al-Aqsa Intifada" - started in September "with a publicized visit to holy Qods by Zionist war criminal Ariel Sharon." Arutz-7's Ron Meir calls the reader's attention to the February speech by PA "Information Minister" Imad Falouji to the effect that the intifada was a carefully-planned PLO reaction to the organization's disappointment with the results of the Camp David summit; there, Ehud Barak offered Yasser Arafat over 95% of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, sovereignty over eastern Jerusalem Arab neighborhoods and partial control over the Temple Mount.