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Following are excerpts from an interview with Neturei Karta Spokesman Daud Salah, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on August 6, 2006:
Daud Salah: Unfortunately, the attacks by the Zionist entity, by the army of the Zionist entity, against the Lebanese people, against the independent Lebanese state, and against the population, especially in South Lebanon, are war crimes.
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This war is the result of the Zionist refusal to recognize the Palestinian national rights in Palestine. In addition, they are waging war against the Muslims, against the Palestinians in Gaza, in the West Bank, and in Jerusalem. Now they want to occupy South Lebanon. Their goal is to bring all the Muslims and all the Arabs under their control.
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First of all, we denounce the kidnapping [of members] of the legitimate Palestinian government. They are representatives of the Palestinian people, who won the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council. These recent elections were legal, and were held under the supervision of international observers. This kidnapping of the representatives of the Palestinian people is illegal, and runs counter to international law. I personally met the speaker of the Legislative Council, Mr. Aziz Duweik, may Allah grant him a long life, and he told me that all Muslims and especially the Palestinian people, have nothing against the Jews in general. On the contrary. He reminded me that when the Christians were massacring the Jewish people in Europe - who protected them? They were protected by the Turkish Muslims, in Morocco, and especially in Palestine.
He told me that when, Allah willing, the Zionist entity occupying Palestine is peacefully dismantled, we will live together under the patronage of the Muslims in dignity, peace, and coexistence, under Islamic rule, just as it was a century ago, God willing.
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In accordance with Jewish religion, we do not consider these Jews to be Jews. The Zionist in an infidel, because he doesn't recognize the divine instructions written in the Torah.
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My sister... My dear, first of all, you should know that Jews living under Arab patronage, under Islamic rule, is nothing new. We lived together in peace and coexistence under the rule of the great king, the Caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, and under the Caliph Al-Ma'mun, and Omaraˆ¦ Ali Ibn Abu Talib. In the days of the Prophet Muhammad too, when we lived in Saudi Arabia, we coexisted with the Muslims. This is nothing new.
Global Zionism has invented something new - that a Jew cannot live under Arab rule. But I must remind you that in Morocco, 25,000 Jews live in peace and coexistence with the Moroccans, under Islamic Arab rule. I haven't finished. In Yemen there are about 1,000 Jews living under President Ali Abdullah Saleh, may Allah grant him long life. And in Iran, in the Republic of Iran, under the rule of King Ahmadinejad... 25,000 Jews live in peace and coexistence.
Interviewer: He's a president, not a kingaˆ¦
Daud Salah: You think this is strange, but it isn't. We hope that the Zionist entity will be peacefully dismantled, and that an independent Palestinian state will be established here, and that the Palestinian flag will fly over Al-Haram Al-Sharif. The Palestinians say, at every opportunity: We will live with you, just like we did before the Zionist invasion to Palestine.
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