MEMRI Flotilla Coverage: Top Palestinian Islamic Cleric in Lebanon Sheik Muhammad Nimr Zaghmout Calls on Egyptians and Jordanians to Storm Israeli Embassies, Take Ambassadors and Employees Hostage Following Flotilla Clash

The following excerpts are from an interview on the flotilla clash with Sheik Muhammad Nimr Zaghmout, head of the Palestinian Islamic Council in Lebanon. The interview aired on Al-Alam TV on May 31, 2010.

Sheik Muhammad Nimr Zaghmout: A convoy of people were martyred for the sake of Islam and in order to regain the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Now, there are a few steps that should be taken by the Palestinians, the Arab and Islamic nation, and all the free people of the world.

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We have washed our hands of the Arab regimes. We are relying on Allah, on ourselves, and on the Arab and Islamic peoples. The peoples of the Arab nation should storm the [Israeli] spy embassy in Cairo, and take the head spy – the so-called ambassador – as well as all the agents surrounding him, as prisoners and hostages, in order to use them as bargaining chips. The Arab people should do the same in Jordan. They should storm the embassy, and take the ambassador and the agents surrounding him hostage, and use them as bargaining chips, or hand them over to the Palestinians or to any Arab or Islamic resistance faction.