The Hizbullah issued a statement last week calling upon Arab states "to put aside their reticence policy and to react to the cruel acts by the Israeli Zionists."
So reports Iran's official IRNA news agency. In IRNA's words, the communique said that "the Arab countries should not leave the Palestinians alone before the Israeli war machinery." The statement called for a continuation of anti-Israeli actions "until the entire occupied region would be liberated from the Zionist control" - noting that terrorist acts ('the struggle and resistance') "are the sole way to neutralize the conspiracies of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon."
The IRNA piece made a point of repeating a central theme that has characterized the Moslem and Arab press over the past several months - that of an Israeli war of "genocide" against the Arab residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza: "Asked what measures the PA hopes Arab regimes will take to force the Zionist regime to stop its genocidal war against the Palestinians, [Palestinian Authority official] Amer said the Palestinians were demanding an Arab military or even economic response to the dire situation in Palestine." Commenting on US support of Israel's right to defend itself against mortar shelling of civilian populations and human bombs on municipal bus lines, Amer said that an Arab League official must convey to the US that "American backing of Israeli aggression is unacceptable to the Arab world."
Of particular interest in the IRNA article was its use of explicit Holocaust imagery in reference to IDF security measures in Arab villages throughout Yesha. Zionist troops sealed all entrances to some 20 villages around Nablus (Shechem -ed.) and barred villagers from leaving their homes. One villager at Beit Furik who was reached by telephone said "our villages have been reduced to concentration camps, the only thing absent is the gas chambers."
So reports Iran's official IRNA news agency. In IRNA's words, the communique said that "the Arab countries should not leave the Palestinians alone before the Israeli war machinery." The statement called for a continuation of anti-Israeli actions "until the entire occupied region would be liberated from the Zionist control" - noting that terrorist acts ('the struggle and resistance') "are the sole way to neutralize the conspiracies of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon."
The IRNA piece made a point of repeating a central theme that has characterized the Moslem and Arab press over the past several months - that of an Israeli war of "genocide" against the Arab residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza: "Asked what measures the PA hopes Arab regimes will take to force the Zionist regime to stop its genocidal war against the Palestinians, [Palestinian Authority official] Amer said the Palestinians were demanding an Arab military or even economic response to the dire situation in Palestine." Commenting on US support of Israel's right to defend itself against mortar shelling of civilian populations and human bombs on municipal bus lines, Amer said that an Arab League official must convey to the US that "American backing of Israeli aggression is unacceptable to the Arab world."
Of particular interest in the IRNA article was its use of explicit Holocaust imagery in reference to IDF security measures in Arab villages throughout Yesha. Zionist troops sealed all entrances to some 20 villages around Nablus (Shechem -ed.) and barred villagers from leaving their homes. One villager at Beit Furik who was reached by telephone said "our villages have been reduced to concentration camps, the only thing absent is the gas chambers."