Haikal: Withdrawal of Goldstone report is connivance with the occupation
[ 16/10/2009 - 04:12 PM ]
CAIRO, (PIC)-- Mohammed Hassanien Haikal, the veteran and prominent Egyptian political analyst, has rejected the allegations that the Palestinian factions used the issue of Goldstone report to score political points, describing the PA withdrawal of that report as "clear connivance with the occupation".
In an interview on Thursday with al-Jazeera television, he said that Palestinians and Palestinian factions were stunned by Mahmoud Abbass's sudden withdrawal of support for the report, thus the strong protests.
He said that withdrawal of support for the report by the PA was a clear collusion with the Zionist occupation which was disturbed that for the first time a report of this weight accuses it of war crimes.
Moreover, Haikal said the PA request to retable the report for discussion at the UN Human Rights Council was a formal action not a political one because, he stressed, wise political parties catch and properly employ opportunities and said that PA wasted the opportunity as the US and Israel have put great pressure on countries to withdraw their support for the report.
He questioned the state of mind of the PA leadership which decided to retable the report only a few days after it had wasted the chance to win a large majority on its side.
He said that most of those who criticized the report hadn't read it well, stressing that the report constituted a big chance before the Arab world to sue the Israeli occupation.
He also confirmed that the report had practically exonerated the Palestinian resistance, and blamed it for a few "mistakes" that were incomparable to the war crimes of the IOF troops in Gaza Strip.
"The report was unique because it contains the mechanism to implement it, and tells the Palestinians and the Arabs what they should do in order to sue leaders of occupation", Haikal underscored.
Finally, Haikal, who was a close associate of the late Egyptian president Jamal Abdul Nasser, revealed he now regrets supporting Fatah faction when it was first established in 1965, adding that had he known that Fatah would betray the Palestinian people he wouldn’t have supported it.
[ 16/10/2009 - 04:12 PM ]
CAIRO, (PIC)-- Mohammed Hassanien Haikal, the veteran and prominent Egyptian political analyst, has rejected the allegations that the Palestinian factions used the issue of Goldstone report to score political points, describing the PA withdrawal of that report as "clear connivance with the occupation".
In an interview on Thursday with al-Jazeera television, he said that Palestinians and Palestinian factions were stunned by Mahmoud Abbass's sudden withdrawal of support for the report, thus the strong protests.
He said that withdrawal of support for the report by the PA was a clear collusion with the Zionist occupation which was disturbed that for the first time a report of this weight accuses it of war crimes.
Moreover, Haikal said the PA request to retable the report for discussion at the UN Human Rights Council was a formal action not a political one because, he stressed, wise political parties catch and properly employ opportunities and said that PA wasted the opportunity as the US and Israel have put great pressure on countries to withdraw their support for the report.
He questioned the state of mind of the PA leadership which decided to retable the report only a few days after it had wasted the chance to win a large majority on its side.
He said that most of those who criticized the report hadn't read it well, stressing that the report constituted a big chance before the Arab world to sue the Israeli occupation.
He also confirmed that the report had practically exonerated the Palestinian resistance, and blamed it for a few "mistakes" that were incomparable to the war crimes of the IOF troops in Gaza Strip.
"The report was unique because it contains the mechanism to implement it, and tells the Palestinians and the Arabs what they should do in order to sue leaders of occupation", Haikal underscored.
Finally, Haikal, who was a close associate of the late Egyptian president Jamal Abdul Nasser, revealed he now regrets supporting Fatah faction when it was first established in 1965, adding that had he known that Fatah would betray the Palestinian people he wouldn’t have supported it.
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