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Gush Shalom activist Uri Avnery: "No limit to our leaders' stupidity" by posted by bruno Monday, Mar. 22, 2004 at 3:56 PM |
"This is worse than a crime, it is an act of stupidity!" commented Gush Shalom activist Uri Avnery on the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
"This is the beginning of a new chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. It moves the conflict from the level of a solvable national
conflict to the level of religious conflict, which by its very nature is
insoluble.
The fate of the State of Israel is now in the hands of group of
persons whose outlook is primitive and whose perceptions are retarded.
They are incapable of understanding the mental, emotional and political
dimensions of the conflict. This is a group of bankrupt political and military
leaders who have failed in all their actions. They try to cover up their
failures by a catastrophic escalation.
This act will not only endanger the personal security of every
Israeli, both in the country and around the world, but also the existential
security of the State of Israel. It has grievously hurt the chances of putting
and end to the Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Arab and Israeli-Muslim conflicts.
Avnery mentioned that in the early 1980s the occupation
authorities encouraged the founders of Hamas, hoping that they would
create a counter-weight to Yasser Arafat and the PLO. Even after the start of
the first intifada, the army and the security services gave preferential
treatment of Hamas. Sheikh Yassin was arrested only a year after the outbreak.
There seems to be no limit to the stupidity of our political and
military leaders. They endanger the future of the State of Israel."