In a May 9th editorial published by the official Palestinian Authority news agency, WAFA, there is a strong condemnation? of poor timing. Following the suicide bombing in Rishon LeZion, the WAFA editorial expresses sympathy for suicide bombings, but an appeal to consider their tactical implications. The editorial calls on its readers to ?study this case [of the Rishon bombing] and wisely comprehend the lesson out of it.?
The PA is ?aware that such an action is welcomed and praised amongst some Palestinians, and this operation might sweep some popular admiration,? but ?does civilian killing at this crucial timing serve our cause? By giving the Israelis justifications to massacre our citizens?? the agency?s Political Editor asks. The WAFA article is meant to ask ?about the benefit of such operations, even if they were justified as a response to the killing of our civilians.? Calling for political sophistication, the column states, ?The struggle is not a goal, it is only a mean to achieve political gain or to materialize the goal.?
At this time, the PA editorial says, ?There is an International political move to establish the independent Palestinian state that Bush and the UN have declared?? Therefore, the ?issue is that we need to accurately estimate the situation, and the changes on the arena, and to deal with the events only from the interest of the Palestinian national goals? point of view.? The danger is that such terrorist acts may unravel the political successes and bring on Israeli retaliations, writes the PA editor, ?so no one can monopolize its [Palestinian people?s] fate and destiny, especially when it comes to the security and the political issues.?
In any case, though, the WAFA editor justifies suicide attacks by laying the blame for them at Israel?s and America?s doorstep, and threatening future attacks: ?[We] see that Sharon is the responsible for the whole violence, and Sharon will be responsible together with Bush for the future attacks and violence.? The Israelis, the PA charges, ?are killing our civilian citizens using the USA made most sophisticated war machine, they are blindfolding our eyes, tying our hands from behind with plastic bonds, and they are humiliating us daily by treating us as cattle or less, revealing their racist instincts, teaching the world how to invent war crimes?? The Israelis are thus ?pushing them [Palestinian civilians] to the wall, leaving them no chance and no hope for the future, leading them to commit terror as a response to the organized state atrocious terror.?
The PA version of ?condemning terrorism? is summed up in the articles closing, a call to unnamed actors to restrain suicide bombings: ?If some are mixing courage with fear, it is not courageous to bid on the majority?s fate, this Palestinian majority that have proven beyond any shadow of doubt that they are the most courageous nation on the globe.?
The PA is ?aware that such an action is welcomed and praised amongst some Palestinians, and this operation might sweep some popular admiration,? but ?does civilian killing at this crucial timing serve our cause? By giving the Israelis justifications to massacre our citizens?? the agency?s Political Editor asks. The WAFA article is meant to ask ?about the benefit of such operations, even if they were justified as a response to the killing of our civilians.? Calling for political sophistication, the column states, ?The struggle is not a goal, it is only a mean to achieve political gain or to materialize the goal.?
At this time, the PA editorial says, ?There is an International political move to establish the independent Palestinian state that Bush and the UN have declared?? Therefore, the ?issue is that we need to accurately estimate the situation, and the changes on the arena, and to deal with the events only from the interest of the Palestinian national goals? point of view.? The danger is that such terrorist acts may unravel the political successes and bring on Israeli retaliations, writes the PA editor, ?so no one can monopolize its [Palestinian people?s] fate and destiny, especially when it comes to the security and the political issues.?
In any case, though, the WAFA editor justifies suicide attacks by laying the blame for them at Israel?s and America?s doorstep, and threatening future attacks: ?[We] see that Sharon is the responsible for the whole violence, and Sharon will be responsible together with Bush for the future attacks and violence.? The Israelis, the PA charges, ?are killing our civilian citizens using the USA made most sophisticated war machine, they are blindfolding our eyes, tying our hands from behind with plastic bonds, and they are humiliating us daily by treating us as cattle or less, revealing their racist instincts, teaching the world how to invent war crimes?? The Israelis are thus ?pushing them [Palestinian civilians] to the wall, leaving them no chance and no hope for the future, leading them to commit terror as a response to the organized state atrocious terror.?
The PA version of ?condemning terrorism? is summed up in the articles closing, a call to unnamed actors to restrain suicide bombings: ?If some are mixing courage with fear, it is not courageous to bid on the majority?s fate, this Palestinian majority that have proven beyond any shadow of doubt that they are the most courageous nation on the globe.?