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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (32163)	6/12/2002 2:25:10 PM
From: ThirdEye	Respond to of 281500

But the militants don't really have any stake in peace, do they, and are ideologically opposed to the idea. "America, the West, or any country in the world, has no moral right to decide whether a Palestinian has the right to blow himself up... or not.... We are the owners of our souls... no one has the right to object to us giving away our souls and turning them into human bombs for a cause we consider more important and more sacred than our lives." Referring to American calls for reform in the Palestinian Authority, Shalah said: "Who amongst us doesn't want reform? Who amongst us isn't against corruption? But when reform is raised today - it is [only] a cover for the American-Israeli plan to dismantle the unity of the Palestinian people... This kind of reform, we reject. We all know the PA... we all blamed Arafat for corruption... But [now] we say, if for the sake of reform, we have to give up the Intifada, the resistance, and the Jihad warriors - then we would rather have Arafat's corruption continue... We have suffered many years from corruption and will continue to suffer more and more in order to have the resistance continue." Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdallah Shalah imra.org.il