LGF currently has a
post about an award given to a photographer for this news agency. I'm always interested in new Arab news agencies, so I looked around the site. They seem currently to be occupied with the idea that whatever was in the no-man's land of Arafat's bloodstream was Israeli in origin:
September 11 was not only a day for the Palestinians to commemorate the death of Late president Yasser Arafat, but was also an opportunity to be seized by Palestinian politicians to highlight to which extent the Palestinian symbol’s peaceful policy bore fruit.
In a speech he directed to the Palestinian people, in the commemoration of Arafat’s death, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh lambasted the Israeli “hostile polices against the Palestinians” providing an example of the “belligerent attitudes” against the Palestinian peacemaker, who singed Oslo Accord in the hope of ending a 45 years of bloody conflicts between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
“The late president offered a lot for peace and stability in the region, but the result was that Israel besieged and poisoned him,” Haniyeh said. “Therefore, the problem is not with the Palestinians or the Palestinian government but with the Israeli polices,” he added.
The commemoration of Arafat set a comparison between the Israeli polices towards the Palestinian Authority before and after Hamas’s ascension to power. The spokesman of the Palestinian government Ghazi Hamad, said in a press release today: “There is no denying that the course of life of [late] president Arafat proved unquestionably that Israel does not seek peace; it seeks hegemony, picking wars and spreading depredation.”
“Arafat had come a long way negotiating with Israel, and singed agreements, however, they [the Israelis] ungratefully did him down and accused him of terrorism,” said Hamad.
Arafat? Terrorism? Who would think of such a thing?
These remarks were the oft-repeated motif of Hamas’s campaign pitch to the Palestinian voters – during the general elections at the begging of this year – and which swayed many voters who once believed in Fatah’s peaceful policy which recognized Israel and renounced violence.
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