Erekat: There’s No Difference Between Israel and ISIS
Fatah’s PLO terrorist chief negotiator says Israel’s construction in Judea and Samaria is like the terrorism carried out by the Islamic State.
ISRAEL – Fatah’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, on Wednesday compared Israel’s construction of homes in Judea and Samaria to the actions of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group.
“There is no difference between the terrorism practiced by the group led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Israel’s terrorism,” Erekat said, according to the Ma’an news agency, referencing the leader of ISIS.
He added that “ending settlement activities is a prerequisite for eliminating terrorism.”
Erekat also slammed Israel’s decision to withhold the PA’s tax revenues over its applying to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying that Israeli threats would not deter the Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian people from holding firm to their inalienable rights, including the establishment of an independent state whose capital is Jerusalem.
Erekat’s remarks follow a threat he made earlier this week in an interview on Army Radio, when he threatened that the PA will dismantle itself and “hand the keys” back to Israel.
“Next week or next month,” he threatened, “there will not be a Palestinian Authority. Israel will find itself responsible from the river Jordan to the Mediterranean, and you will find our kids running after your kids in refugee camps, as you did in 1992. That’s what it means.” [There actually is no such thing as “Palestine”.]
The comparison to ISIS is certainly not the first time that Israel has been compared to the murderous terrorist group. In October, the speaker of the Jordanian Parliament made a similar comparison between Israel’s construction in Jerusalem and the terrorist attacks of the Islamic State.
The speaker, Atef Tarawneh, said that Israel’s [so-called] “aggression” against the Arabs in Israel is “no less than ISIS actions.”
