Well, after two week's of moving home and unpacking, life is getting back to normal. So I can start posting again.
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From a MEMRI recent report: Saudi
Journalist: The Palestinians' Reliance On Armed Resistance Is Political
Suicide; The Palestinian Cause Is No Longer The Arabs' Primary Concern https://www.memri.org/reports/saudi-journalist-palestinians-reliance-armed-resistance-political-suicide-palestinian-cause
In his January 2, 2017 column in the official Saudi daily
Al-Jazirah, titled "The Palestinians Have No [Choice] But Peace,"
journalist Muhammad Aal Al-Sheikh criticized Palestinian factions that advocate
armed resistance, such as Hamas and radical left-wing factions, on the grounds
that relying on such resistance and rejecting the option of peace is political
suicide. He called on these factions to realize that the two-state solution is
the only option that is feasible and is backed by most of the world's countries
– especially given the existing circumstances, with the U.S. Congress
expressing pro-Israel positions, and the Arab world, preoccupied with more
pressing crises, no longer intensely concerned with the Palestinian cause. A
stubborn insistence on armed resistance will only end up hurting the
Palestinians themselves, he concluded.
Aal Al-Sheikh's column sparked diverse responses on
Twitter, some supporting his opinion and others opposing it. The following are
excerpts from his column, and a sampling of the reactions.
a) Muhammad Aal Al-Sheikh: Only Political Ignoramuses
Advocate Armed Resistance; The Two-State Solution Is The Only Feasible Option.
b) A user named 'Omar Abu Bakr tweeted: "Reasonable
words, especially the claim that Arab attention has been diverted away from the
Palestinian cause due to the Arabs' domestic problems and their opposition to the
Iranian infiltration [of Arab countries]."
c) A Saudi called Al-Hussein Muti' wrote: "The main
[message] of this article is that Hamas must openly declare its agreement to the
two-state solution based on the 1967 borders and forget the slogan 'from the
river to the sea.'"
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