_DM_ zei:
Wat zeg ik nu juist ? Dat het voor de moslims (in dit geval de Palestijnen) not done is dat een niet-moslim daar komt. Zeker iemand van het geloof en land dat hen al jaren onderdrukt.
Onzin, er komen veel niet-moslims daar, de PA (palestinian authority) had zelfs toestemming gegeven.
Lol, zie je Verhofstadt al een kerk komen inspecteren ?
Dat is Sharon z'n job niet.
Domme vergelijking, sharon was geen premier op dat moment en het was geen inspectie
het maakt trouwens weinig uit het was een excuus, zo toegegeven door PA leiders:
"Whoever thinks that the Intifada broke out because of the despised Sharon's visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque is wrong.. . . This Intifada was planned in advance, ever since President Arafat's return from the Camp David negotiations, where he turned the table upside down on President Clinton." (Al-Safir, March 3, 2001. Translated by MEMRI) Elsewhere, Al-Faluji said: "The PA had begun to prepare for the outbreak of the current Intifada since the return from the Camp David negotiations."(Al-Ayyam, December 6, 2000. Translated by MEMRI).
A similar assertion has been made by then-senior Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti (currently in jail on terror-related charges), who told an interviewer that:
"The explosion would have happened anyway. It was necessary in order to protect Palestinian rights. But Sharon provided a good excuse. He is a hated man." (New Yorker, January 29, 2001)
Barghouti reinforced this point half a year later: "The intifada did not start because of Sharon’s visit to Al-Aqsa, although that was the last straw. The intifada began because of the desire to put an end to the occupation and because the Palestinians did not approve of the peace process in its previous form." (Jerusalem Times, June 8, 2001)