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Official television network calls for 'liberation' of 'all Palestine' Posted: January 29, 2008
News from Israel JERUSALEM – The Palestinian goal of a Palestinian state is just a
temporary ruse until "all of Palestine" can be "liberated," declared a
leader speaking yesterday on the official television network of
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization.
Saleh Raafat, a member of the executive committee of Abbas' Palestine
Liberation Organization, was interviewed on PA television about the
death last weekend of infamous terrorist leader George Habash, who
strongly opposed signing peace agreements with Israel. Raafat told his interviewer: "Habash was a very positive Palestinian
leader who used democratic tools to express opinions. He disagreed with
[late PLO leader Yasser] Arafat regarding the present temporary vision
of a Palestinian state, but he never used weapons to express his
disagreement." Raafat said the Palestinians would accept "22 percent of Palestine" as a
"temporary and not permanent" state until "all of Palestine" can be
liberated. While Raafat described Habash as "democratic" and as "never" using
weapons, Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has
carried out scores of notorious deadly terrorist attacks. Raafat was
speaking as part of a mourning series on PA television for Habash, the
PFLP leader who died in Jordan at the age of 81. Habash's PFLP gained notoriety in 1970 for hijacking four Western
airliners over the U.S., Europe, the Far East and the Persian Gulf. The
aircraft were blown up in the Middle East after passengers and crews
disembarked. The PFLP in 1972 then gunned down 27 people at Israel's Lod
airport. The PFLP continues operating from Syria, Jordan and the West Bank. More
recent attacks include scores of deadly shootings against Israelis, the
2001 assassination of Israeli tourism minister Rechavam Zeevi and
suicide bombings on an Israeli highway and in Tel Aviv's well-known
Karmel Market. According to Israeli security officials, the PFLP is the Palestinian
terror group most proficient in carrying out successful drive-by
shooting attacks. Habash also led the second-largest faction of the PLO, next to Yasser
Arafat's. Habash strongly opposed interim agreements with Israel and
throughout his life advocated terror attacks against the Jewish state.
Arafat numerous times said peace accords signed by Israel were part of a
"phased plan" for the ultimate destruction of the Jewish state.
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