Palestinian Authority intelligence head Toufik Tirawi, on the Voice of Palestine, said, ?It is the Israelis who are terrorists. We say to the Israelis that your state is the terrorist state that opens fire on our people. You are first required to arrest your settlers and soldiers? Arik Sharon used terror in killing at Deir Yassin, killing Egyptian prisoners, killing Palestinians in Sabra and Shatilla.?
Similarly, an official press release of Yasser Arafat?s Fatah faction of the PLO opined, ?The US should not be allowed to ignore the assassinations and daily killings in Palestine being carried out by a real murderer, Sharon, who is still at large? Sharon never let a decade go by without committing an atrocity. But the master of terror in the third millennium is still at large in the company of Liberman and Ze'evi who call for the transfer of Arabs to build the 'Greater Israel'? Until Sharon's terror fades away and justice prevails, and until our goals are achieved, the Palestinian people will continue to solidify their internal unity.?
The Fatah press release draws an analogy between the September 11th terrorist attacks in America and the fifty years of Israel?s existence. Calling the terrorist attacks in America ?atrocities against civilians,? the press release goes on to state, ?Similar atrocities were committed in Palestine during the last fifty years.?
The Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram also editorialized, ?[T]here is at the same time another enemy that practices the most dangerous terrorism, i.e. state terrorism. Such kind of terrorism is performed by Sharon's government against Palestinian people that could not find anyone to drum up so many countries to defend their legitimate rights and to stop Israeli attempts to usurp their lands and bury their cause. Hence, we urge the world community, at the top of which stands the USA, to be logical in classifying terrorists. It has to put in mind the regular terrorism practiced by Israel on daily basis.?
Similarly, an official press release of Yasser Arafat?s Fatah faction of the PLO opined, ?The US should not be allowed to ignore the assassinations and daily killings in Palestine being carried out by a real murderer, Sharon, who is still at large? Sharon never let a decade go by without committing an atrocity. But the master of terror in the third millennium is still at large in the company of Liberman and Ze'evi who call for the transfer of Arabs to build the 'Greater Israel'? Until Sharon's terror fades away and justice prevails, and until our goals are achieved, the Palestinian people will continue to solidify their internal unity.?
The Fatah press release draws an analogy between the September 11th terrorist attacks in America and the fifty years of Israel?s existence. Calling the terrorist attacks in America ?atrocities against civilians,? the press release goes on to state, ?Similar atrocities were committed in Palestine during the last fifty years.?
The Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram also editorialized, ?[T]here is at the same time another enemy that practices the most dangerous terrorism, i.e. state terrorism. Such kind of terrorism is performed by Sharon's government against Palestinian people that could not find anyone to drum up so many countries to defend their legitimate rights and to stop Israeli attempts to usurp their lands and bury their cause. Hence, we urge the world community, at the top of which stands the USA, to be logical in classifying terrorists. It has to put in mind the regular terrorism practiced by Israel on daily basis.?