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Mar 12, 2010
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Bassam Kayed, Palestinian Islamic Scholars Association in Lebanon: The Sword Is the Only Language That Our Enemy Knows

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Source: Al-Manar TV (Lebanon)

The following excerpts are from an interview with Sheik Bassam Kayed of the Palestinian Islamic Scholars Association in Lebanon, which aired on Al-Manar TV on March 12, 2010.

Sheik Bassam Kayed: Who says Obama and America will give us anything? Whoever relies on them is bound to lose. You cannot rely upon your enemy, and America is our enemy – in Iraq, in Palestine, and everywhere. This is inconceivable.

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The main issues – the prisoners, the refugees, and so on... Is it conceivable that we will get what we want through negotiations? The only solution between us and them is the sword. That is the only language that our enemy understands. It was God who told us that. Who could be more reliable than Allah?! Our enemies, the Jews, understand no other language.

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