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Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade members (AP file)
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| By Jerusalem Newswire November 7, 2005 |
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| Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade rally (AP file) |
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A "military wing" of the Palestinian Authority's ruling Fatah faction declared its support Sunday for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's desire to see Israel "wiped off the map."
For those unconvinced that the various terrorist organizations that make up the PLO/PA ever truly abandoned their own long-stated aspirations to eradicate the Jewish "stain" from the Middle East, the announcement came as little surprise.
In a leaflet published by Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the group stressed its "identification with and overall support of the position and declaration of the Iranian president, who called with all honesty to wipe Israel off the map of the world."
Ahmadinejad was correct in labeling Israel a "fictitious Zionist state, which will disappear with the help of Allah," according to the leaflet.
The Brigades warned against official recognition of Israel, as doing so "constitutes contempt of the Palestinian people, who sacrifice their blood every day for the sake of freeing Palestine and Jerusalem."
The group was referring to daily attempts by its own members and other "Palestinian" terrorists to mass murder Jewish men, women and children.
Unnamed PA officials insisted the leaflet did not represent the position of the regime of PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas.
"We strongly condemn the leaflet," one told The Jerusalem Post.
Attempting to play down the incident, the same official suggested the leaflet "does not even reflect the position of the Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades."
The Palestinian Authority is currently working to integrate the Brigades into its official police forces.
For the Brigades to openly call for Israel's complete destruction at this time would call into question the wisdom of such a move, and the PA's own intentions for having initiated it.
Under the terms of the Oslo Accords and Road Map peace agreements, the PA is obligated to disarm and dismantle groups such as the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.
Abbas hopes that by paying them police salaries, the international community will see that commitment as fulfilled. Washington has indicated it will play along, and is financing the move, PA sources told Middle East Newsline last week.
Many members of the group already draw official police salaries, including a top Gaza-based terrorist killed in an IDF missile strike last week after his involvement in numerous Kassam rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli towns.
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