From: cl056@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hamaza H. Salah)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.arabic
Subject: Dec 14th Sh. Ahmad Yaseen's Interview on Israeli T.V.
Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:34:38 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.

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