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• Nabil Sha'th: We Will Not Recognize Israel as the State of the Jewish People
• U.S.-Educated Kuwaiti Islamist Preacher Tareq Al-Suwaidan, Manager of Al-Resala TV, Calls for Armed Resistance, Electronic Jihad Against Israel
• Former Top PA Security Chief Muhammad Dahlan Attacks PA President Mahmoud Abbas: He Can Take the Decision to Fire Me and Shove It
• Former Israeli Knesset Member Azmi Bishara: Who Are Obama and Clinton to Teach Us a Lesson in Democracy?!

Special Dispatch No. 3942—Palestinians

Nabil Sha'th: We Will Not Recognize Israel as the State of the Jewish People

In two interviews with the Arab Israeli weekly Kul Al-Arab and the Jerusalem-based daily Al-Quds, Nabil Sha'th, Fatah Central Committee member and international relations commissioner, said that the Palestinians would not accept a peace plan with two states for two peoples that included recognition of Israel as the state of the Jewish people. Rather, he said, they would only accept a definition of Israel as the state of the "Israeli people" – which would include Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Sha'th stated that unlike the 1947 U.N. Partition Plan, which had harmed the Palestinian people, the Palestinians' plans to appeal to the U.N. for recognition of a Palestinian state would not harm Israel. He added that the Palestinians preferred the French peace initiative to that of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Sha'th expressed support for initiatives for organizing a million unarmed Palestinians to mass along Israel's borders as part of the Palestinian popular struggle. He stressed that he was working toward returning the Palestinian refugees to all of Palestine, and that the defense of the Arab Israelis must be at the top of the Palestinian agenda.

To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5401.htm.

Special Dispatch No. 3941—Kuwait/Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project

U.S.-Educated Kuwaiti Islamist Preacher Tareq Al-Suwaidan, Manager of Al-Resala TV, Calls for Armed Resistance, Electronic Jihad Against Israel

Tareq Al-Suwaidan, the general manager of Al-Resala TV, is a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait and a popular Islamic motivational speaker and TV preacher. According to Forbes magazine (Arabic edition: Forbes Arabia), Al-Suwaidan ranks second in annual net income among Islamic motivational speakers in the Muslim world, with an estimated net profit of $1 million in 2007. In a 2006 interview, he said that he had arrived in the U.S. at age 17, attended high school there, and "graduated from the University of Oklahoma in the United States in petroleum engineering with a minor in management" and subsequently stayed for 17 years.

Following are excerpts from an interview with Al-Suwaidan, which aired on Al-Quds TV on June 4, 2011:

To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2980.htm.

Tareq Sweidan: "Israel cannot withstand the will of the people. Ultimately, there will be a decisive battle. We must postpone this battle, because we are not ready, but we will get to this battle."

To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5400.htm.

Special Dispatch No. 3940—Palestinians

Former Top PA Security Chief Muhammad Dahlan Attacks PA President Mahmoud Abbas: He Can Take the Decision to Fire Me and Shove It

Following are excerpts from an interview with former top Palestinian Authority security chief Muhammad Dahlan, which aired on Al-Hayat TV on June 13, 2011:

To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2993.htm.

Muhammad Dahlan: "Brother Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] made his decision [to expel me] about a year ago, because he cannot tolerate any criticism, any advice, any comment, or any participation in the decision-making, regarding politics, Fatah, the negotiations, or finances. This has become perfectly clear since the rift [with Hamas], which made Abbas feel that he should have a monopoly on everything."

To read the full report, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5399.htm.

MEMRI TV Clip No. 2995 - Former Israeli Knesset Member Azmi Bishara: Who Are Obama and Clinton to Teach Us a Lesson in Democracy?!

Following are excerpts from an interview with former Israeli Knesset member Azmi Bishara, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on June 16, 2011:

Azmi Bishara: "[The Americans] have the audacity to tell us to learn [democracy] from Poland. Brother, this is something I don't understand. These people inherited a democracy, but who says they are democratic? Who says that Clinton and Obama can give us a lesson in democracy? I can read Thomas Jefferson and learn about democracy, because he established democracy in his country. But did Obama establish a democracy?!"

To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2995.htm.