Following are excerpts from an interview with Fatah MP Abdallah Abdallah, which aired on Palestine Today TV on July 7, 2014:
Dr. Abdallah Abdallah: "Until now, there has been no physical evidence that the three Israeli soldiers that disappeared who disappeared on June 12 and were found dead 18 days later…
"The Israelis have not presented any physical evidence showing how they disappeared, who hid them, who killed them, and when…
"Everything is based on suspicions. Israel started to feel isolated. It began to fear that it would become an outlaw, pariah state, and would encounter the same fate as the Apartheid in South Africa. That is why its reaction is characterized by confusion and deranged extremism. Israel is leading its people towards a new Nazism in the literal sense of the word. What is the difference between burning a person in a gas crematoria or burning him in the open air? The lie of many Jewish leaders…
"They used to reprimand the world saying that if the world had paid attention to Kristallnacht in 1938, when the Germans destroyed Jewish shops in Berlin and Munich...
"They said that if the world had paid attention to this event and had stopped these crimes, the Holocaust would not have taken place. (The murder of) Muhammad Abu Kheidir is the Palestinian Kristallnacht. Until the (Hamas-Israel) tahdia agreement of December 2012, I was more optimistic. But unfortunately, in that agreement, we conceded that our operations against Israel constitute aggression. This is very bad for us Palestinians. Maybe, at a certain point in time, we were incapable of conducting an armed struggle, but this did not stem from cowardice or a refusal to make sacrifices but because of certain circumstances. But we have never given up (the armed struggle), or conceded that our responses to Israeli aggression constituted aggression itself."