Posted on 05/29/2003 9:45:04 PM PDT by ganeshpuri89
Thursday, May 29, 2003By The Jerusalem Times Staff
The Jerusalem Times (independent Palestinian weekly) 29 May 2003http://www.jerusalem-times.net/article/news/details/detail.asp?id=3412
Students demonstrated at the biggest Palestinian university, Al- Najah, in the West Bank city of Nablus, vowing to keep Jews out of Al Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam. Israel's police chief said last week he would open the mosque for Jews to pray even by using force if necessary.
At the demonstration, which was organized by the Islamic Movement of Hamas, students warned the Israeli government not to allow Jews to enter the mosque compound. "We are ready to prevent the Jews from entering Al Aqsa. We are all ready to be martyrs in order to defend it," the students shouted. At the demonstration, they blew up a four-meter long wooden replica of a bus, and a model of a Land Rover.
Speaking to the crowds, Ahmed Haj Ali, one of the local political leaders of Hamas, slammed the Mideast roadmap for peace which was grudgingly approved by Israel on Sunday. "The roadmap is a trick. The only map that will lead us to victory is jihad," he said, using the Arabic term for holy war.
Earlier, Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, another leader of Hamas, called the road map "a conspiracy to liquidate the Palestinian cause and resistance." In a historic vote cast under intense U.S. pressure, Israel's government narrowly approved an internationally backed "road map" to peace Sunday and for the first time recognized the Palestinians' right to statehood.
Exactly, and if I may build on your image: Obviously a bus full of Israelis on the roadmap to piece.
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