Leder av den Islamistiske bevegelsen i Israel, sheikh Raed Salah, lar seg intervjue av Al Jazeera og sier at hvis de hadde hatt en hær ville han ikke nølt med å bruke den.

Det er et interessant faktum: en islamistisk leder har full talefrihet i Israel til å si at hvis de hadde hatt våpen så ville han brukt dem mot landets egen hær. Slik kan ikke en islamist snakke i et arabisk land uten å havne i fengsel for høyforræderi.

«We are following what is taking place in Gaza with a lot of pain. It’s clear to us that what is happening now is a war in every sense of the word, and is part of the wars of the past which have taken place in the region since 1948, through 1967 to 2006. This is the new war these days.

«It’s clear to us that the savage Israeli occupation aspires through its war against our entire Palestinian people to bring down the elected Palestinian government led by Ismail Haniyeh, and it trying to foil the Palestinian resistance plan.

Sheik Salah benytter anledningen til å lange ut mot de arabiske landene som må ta pragmatiske hensyn. Hvis ikke hele araberverdenen marsjerer mot Gaza så skyldes det svik.

«The Israeli occupation wouldn’t have had the courage to cause this destruction without the Arab and Islamic support and official silence. I’m sad to say that the Israeli occupation is carrying out this terroristic destruction as if there weren’t a billion and a half Muslims and Arabs and as if there weren’t more than 50 Muslim and Arab states and there wasn’t the Arab League.

«The official Arab and Islamic silence has sentenced Gaza and the million and a half residents besieged there to death,» he added.
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«Believe me, if we had an army, it wouldn’t keep silent now. If we had warplanes, they would be used to maintain peace.

Salah: If we had an army, it would act