A senior Palestinian Authority has praised the use of violence against Israel, asserting that if the PA had the military wherewithal to rise up against the Jewish state, it would not hesitate to do so.
| Not very comforting but perfectly in character... |
| Typical Arab talking big -- no reality involved. After all, what were the two intifadas but the best efforts of the Palestinians at a military uprising? |
"I swear that if we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very morning," vowed Jibril Rajoub during an interview with the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen TV channel, as reported by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).
| In other words, he was speaking in Arabic to a local audience, with every expectation that it would not get out to the English-speaking world. |
Jibril Rajoub is the Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee and Chairman of the PA Olympic Committee. The interview was also published on Rajoub's Facebook page on May 2, 2013. |