From: cl056@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hamaza H. Salah)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: Re: Dec 14th Sh. Ahmad Yaseen's Interview on Israeli T.V.
Date: 26 Dec 1992 17:40:57 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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>
>This is the translated interview that was broadcasted on
>Israeli T.V. when Hamas Eiz Al-Deen AlGassam men kidnapped
>the Israeli border guard officer and demanded Israel in return
>to free their sick old man Ahmad Yaseen.
>
>Q: It was said in the newspapers that your health are not alright?
>A: Sometimes it's good and sometimes it is not.  And sometimes it
>   is moderate.
>
>Q: How about now?
>A: I suffer from infection.
>
>Q: Where?
>A: It is in the right lung.
>
>Q: How about your eye?
>A: The eye is a different story.
>
>Q: Are they going to have an operation done for it?
>A: They promised me but nothing happened.
>
>Q: When the operation is going to be done?
>A: I have no idea.
>
>Q: Some gunmen kidnapped a policeman and they ask for your
>   release.  What do you think about this?
>A: There is no human on earth who refuses freedom, and there
>   is no human that asks for captivity.  I believe that everyone
>   in jail, specially in our current political developments,
>   has the right to be free.
>
>Q: How about if they killed the policeman?
>A: I advise not until the authority is given a chance to meet the
>   demands of these people.
>
>Q: How can they give time to the authority?
>A: It is their job.  They are to give time
>
>Q: How much time?
>A: You nor I can say that.  Their conditions and situations and the
>   the situation of Gaza Strip and West Bank are what determine that
>   amount of time.
>
>Q: In principles, what do you think of killing this policeman?
>A: Killing a pliceman and killing a Palestinian and killing a
>   slodier is an episode that resulted from a situation that is
>   occupation.  So if the causes are removed, the problems
>   disappear.
>
>Q: How about the action of kidnapping the policeman?
>A: Is this action part of the episode or not?  It is part of it.
>   Every day people die from both sides.  So when the conditions of
>   the occupation get changed, all of this will be vanished
>   automatically.
>
>Q: What if they kill the policeman tonight?
>A: I don't agree on killing him.  The kidnapper has demands and he
>   will ask for them, and the authority has to look into these demands
>   and meet them.
>
>Q: How do you see Hamas power today in the occupied territories?
>A: Wallah I don't see.  How can I see while I am being isolated?
>
>Q: How about from what you hear from prisoners and visitors?
>A: What I hear from the media is that Hamas movements is on the
>   increase.
>
>Q: What does that indicate?
>A: It indicates that the Islamic solution is the answer.
>
>Q: How about the peace process and Washignton negotiations?
>A: There is no Palestinian who refuses peace.  Every Palestinian
>   wants peace, but the peace you want is different than the peace
>   I want.  Everyone has its own way to persu peace.
>
>Q: What do think about the on-going negotiations today?
>A: Up till now, it did not accomplish anything.  And initially,
>   I expected it will not accomplish anything due to the lack
>   of balance.
>
>-- 
All grammer mistakes are mine! 
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