I asked Nasser Abusharif, the Representative of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine in Iran about the accusation of “terrorism” levied against organizations like his by Israel and its allies.
Q: I have seen many supporters of the Israeli occupation saying that the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (PIJ) is a “terrorist” movement. What facts do you think should be used to disprove this lie?
A: Yes, America and the European Union classify the Islamic Jihad Movement as a terrorist movement.
Great powers can turn truth into falsehood and falsehood into truth through what they possess of hard and soft power. But if you look impartially who is the real terrorist, you will find that America, Britain and Europe are the head of the terrorist forces. America and Europe in general manipulated the concept of terrorism historically to suit their interests.
Who is the terrorist? Is it the terrorist who defends his human rights that were usurped at the hands of the enemies of humanity, or the one who committed the most heinous crimes against the Palestinian people?
Read the book of Ilan Pappé, the Israeli-Jewish thinker, the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Read how Britain occupied Palestine and committed all kinds of crimes against the Palestinian people. This is the biggest crime that the whole world is witnessing.
Who supports the Zionist entity, which is described as a state of separation and racial discrimination? America and Europe, who turn a blind eye against settlement and its crimes.
They are the terrorists who have committed for centuries the most heinous crimes against humanity. History witnesses their crimes in their colonies and in their practices against the indigenous people and against the Africans who hunted millions of them to work in their farms. Western civilization is the biggest criminal in human history, and the numbers testify, but they are the ones who control international institutions, and therefore they falsify the truth as false and false as true.
The Islamic Jihad Movement is a national movement that fights the occupation, struggles against Zionist terrorism, and struggles against the state of separation and racial discrimination. If the concepts were accurate and not falsified, and if the international community respected the most basic human rights, it would stand behind the Islamic Jihad Movement as an example of the defence of human values.
What kind of terrorism is greater than a people erasing their civilizational history of more than five thousand years in favour of a people fabricated on the basis of religious texts, myths and legends that have been transformed by lies, plots and conspiracies into the reality of any arrogance that is greater than that?
For our self-defence, our people, and our history, and we stand before these corrupt arrogant people who accuse us of terrorism.
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