Palestinian Official Slams Sharon for Continuing TerrorismA senior Palestinian official on Thursday condemned Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for continuing terrorist actions against the Palestinians."The Israelis are brutally murdering Palestinian civilians as the world is astoundingly watching," Ahmed Abdel Rahman, Palestinian secretary of the cabinet, told Radio Cairo. "Sharon does not believe in a political solution and insists on a military solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict," said Rahman, calling for efforts to pressure the Israeli hardliner to end the escalating aggressions against the Palestinians. Rahman said that "there is no military solution which can solve the Palestinian problem," adding that Sharon's policy would only lead to "a dead end." "The Israelis will never be able to nip in the bud of the Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israeli occupation. It is impossible to annihilate the Palestinian people by using terrorist means," Rahman said. He also spoke highly of Egyptian efforts to help end the Palestinian-Israeli violence, urging other Arab countries to join Egypt's efforts "in a more serious way." The Palestinian National Authority held Sharon responsible for a deadly Palestinian suicide bomb blast which occurred on Thursday in central Jerusalem, killing 19 and injuring over 80 others. Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said that "it is he (Sharon) who provoked (the Palestinians). The acts of violence and terrorism are the result of the policy of murder by the Israeli prime minister." More than 670 people, most of them Palestinians, have been killed since the Palestinians and Israelis have engaged in bloody clashes for more than 10 months. |
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