Jun. 19, 2002
THE ARAB VIEW: "Allah, make us all evil"
By REGIONAL SOURCES, COMPILED BY MEMRI
In line with its decision to increase aid to a number of groups opposed to peace in the Middle East, Iran has allocated a special budget for Palestinian organizations that lost their source of funds when the communist bloc collapsed and Libya cut off support.
A source close to the Revolutionary Guards said Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shalah visited Iran recently with a delegation that included other Islamic Jihad chiefs, Hamas representatives, and Ahmad Jibril, leader of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command.
They went to Teheran to take part in a pro-intifada symposium. The PA was represented by Communications Minister Imad Faluji.
The event was supervised by former Iranian ambassador to Syria and interior minister Ali Akbar Muhtashemi, known as "the midwife of Hizbullah" owing to his role in the movement's emergence as an offshoot from a Syrian-backed Lebanese movement.
Iran has been financing Islamic Jihad since its founding via Hizbullah, whose budget exceeds $200 million. When disagreement broke out last year between those in charge of Hizbullah finances and their Islamic Jihad counterpart, the latter demanded that its budget come directly to Islamic Jihad.
Shalah met twice with Supreme Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei, who promised that the organization's budget would not only be separated from Hizbullah's but boosted by another 70% to cover the expense of recruiting young Palestinians for suicide operations.
Khamenei, moreover, ordered a huge sum to be immediately handed over to Islamic Jihad for transfer to several Palestinian figures who recently visited Teheran.
According to a Revolutionary Guards source, Iran's Al-Quds Forces will continue training Islamic Jihad fighters inside Iran, while Col. Ali Reza Tamiz, a commander of the Al-Quds Forces' technological team, will remain responsible for training Hizbullah in using advanced equipment, including Ra'ad missiles, Shahin launchers and surface-to-air missiles.
The source added that in addition to its annual budget, Hizbullah receives diverse aid from religious, economic and government institutions in Iran. Every month, institutions such as Al-Shahid, Imdad Al-Imam, and the Al-Mustaz'afin Fund transfer phenomenal sums to the families of Hizbullah martyrs, the wounded and the handicapped.
An Islamic Jihad leader denied the report in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, saying his movement "does not work for any regime in the world."
ISLAMIC JIHAD'S Shalah, focusing on President Bush's anti-suicide bombing statements, said: "If America is the one to divide the world into the 'camp of the good' and the 'camp of the evil,' and if it puts the Palestinian people and its jihad fighters on the evil side, claiming the martyrs are evil, then we say: 'Allah, make us all evil, anger America and blow up in the heart of this cursed Zionist entity....' "
"America, the West - or any country in the world - has no moral right to decide whether a Palestinian can blow himself up or not. Why doesn't America object when an American or European contributes millions of dollars for dogs and cats? No one says: 'Why are you giving up your wealth for the sake of dogs and cats?'
"We are the owners of our souls... no one has the right to object to our giving them away and turning ourselves into human bombs for a cause we consider more important and more sacred than our lives."
Hizbullah's deputy secretary- general, Sheikh Na'im Qasem, quoted Imam [ayatollah Ruhollah] Khomeini: "All of Palestine is plundered. There is no difference between the '48 territories and the '67 territories. I ask the Muslims, why are you fighting over the Jordan River when all of Palestine is plundered?"
"Israel's danger is not limited to Palestine; it spreads to the whole region. Imam Khomeini said: 'The goal of this virus [Israel] planted in the heart of the Islamic world is not only to annihilate the Arab nation... The danger is to the whole Middle East... and the solution is in annihilating the virus....
"The Islamic states and the Muslims should initiate the annihilation of this den of corruption [Israel] in every possible way... Charity money may be used for that purpose.
"Imam Khomeini led the way... All [Western] hopes that every Iranian election would herald a change in this direction have failed... President Khatami upholds the same position [despite] international pressures."
"The struggle against Israel is no picnic. It demands great sacrifices; but when I see a mother saying goodbye to her son, awaiting his return as a martyr, [I know that] the Palestinian people is a people of jihad warriors, and will surely win."
"We have to maintain the Iranian-Syrian-Lebanese-Palestinian axis. Our enemy cannot counter us when we are united...."
In an event hosted by the Iranian-Palestinian Friendship Society [founded the day the Six Day War broke out], Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Sadr said: "The Islamic Republic of Iran has placed Palestine as a top priority in its strategic policy."
Imam Khomeini's grandson, Hassan Khomeini, who moderated the event, also referred to the connection between the Iranian regime and the Palestinian struggle:
"There is a strong connection between the intifada and the Islamic revolution in Iran, a connection between two revolutions... The huge Iranian Islamic revolution has had an impact on the whole of history, reviving religious conviction and stating that religion can play a meaningful role in all aspects of life. The intifada of the Muslim Palestinian people.... is the beginning of the way toward a new phase in the historic revolution of Imam Khomeini. We say, as Imam Khomeini said, that Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth."
(Courtesy of MEMRI) Sources: the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Al-Manar, a Hizbullah TV channel broadcasting from Lebanon, and London's Al-Hayat newspaper.
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"If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do."-King Solomon
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
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