Prof. Qassem criticizes Israeli-PA probe into Nablus shooting Sunday

[ 24/04/2011 - 11:05 AM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)-- Dr. Abdul-Sattar Qassem, political sciences professor at Al-Najah University in Nablus, has strongly criticized investigations carried out jointly between Israeli security forces and those of the Palestinian Authority after a Nablus shooting where Palestinians were suspected of killing a Jewish settler and injuring three more.

“The Fatah authority is tied with the Israeli occupier. It has no choice but to form such a committee immediately. If it doesn't, it won't operate, and won't eat, and won't receive funds,” Qassem said in statements to the PIC.

The political analyst condemned resistance forces over their shortcomings in carrying out duties in the West Bank.

“Our first duty is to confront the [Israeli occupier] in order to achieve freedom to establish a real Palestinian state and restore the national rights, most prominently, the right of return,” he said.

Qassem said operations like the one that occurred in Nablus Sunday morning place Israeli settlers in real trouble, forcing large numbers of them to leave the occupied West Bank.

He emphasized that there is no security calm in the West Bank but only “subservience and humiliation”.

“This is not a calm nor peace. There is an occupation. Those who suffer from occupation do not discuss a security calm but think instead about how to remove the occupation. The PA's arguments [for security coordination with Israel] are desperate and outside the logic of human history. They always seek for justification to implement degrading agreements with the Zionist entity.”

Qassem called on the PA security agencies to terminate security agreements with Israel that force the Palestinians to coordinate with Israeli security apparatuses.

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Prof. Qassem: Israeli closure of West Bank requires resistance response

[ 20/04/2011 - 09:11 AM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)-- Dr. Abdul-Sattar Qassem political science professor at Al-Najah University in Nablus called for Palestinian response after Israel has closed off the West Bank for the Passover holidays.

Palestinian condemnation statements and going to the UN Security Council and human rights organizations ”relaxes Israel”, Prof. Qassem said in a press statement.

”We must ask ourselves what we must do to face the challenge. This question should be the topic of continued discussion, which we are lacking,” he said.

”[Israel] works according to its interests,” he said. ”We have no shortage cursing the enemy, but rather we lack means of facing it and working according to our interests.”

He added that ”real and mindful resistance” would ensure a response to Israel, and not resistance through the Security Council and media, because Israel would only receive verbal condemnation and thus continue attacks ”in comfort”.

”Official policies help Israel on the ground,” Qassem continued, ”because it only hears statements that won't deter it from doing what it wants.”

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