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Qadhafi slams ‘cowardly’ Arab response to Gaza blitz
Israel pounds Gaza for second day, death toll rises to 290
Monday, December 29, 2008
TRIPOLI: Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi has accused fellow Arab leaders of adopting a “cowardly” response to Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza, and vowed to boycott an Arab summit on the crisis called for later this week.
“How many times have you called an emergency summit on Palestine,” the official JANA news agency quoted Qadhafi as asking his counterparts rhetorically.
“What action has ever resulted... For my part, I’m tired of listening to this stuck record,” he said in the speech delivered in front of a crowd of supporters on Saturday evening.
“This sort of cowardly, defeatist reaction is shameful.” Qadhafi said it was now time for Arab states to withdraw a 2002 proposal for ending the Middle East conflict which offered Israel full normalisation of relations in return for a full withdrawal from all the territories occupied in 1967 and an equitable solution to the Palestinian refugee problem.
“Make a formal announcement of its withdrawal,” the Libyan leader urged Arab heads of state attending Friday’s summit in Doha.
Libya’s Qadhafi Foundation said on Sunday it was planning an airlift to Egypt aimed at evacuating Palestinians wounded in Israel’s aerial onslaught on the Gaza Strip. It announced the move as Cairo accused the Islamist Hamas movement inside Gaza of preventing hundreds of Palestinians from leaving the bombarded coastal territory for medical treatment.
Two aircraft have been chartered to fly to El-Arish in Egypt 40-km from Egypt’s Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip to evacuate wounded to Benghazi in Libya, a spokesman for the charity told AFP.
Libya’s official JANA news agency also announced that Tripoli would pay for medical care for Palestinian wounded both inside Libya and in other countries. However Egypt on Sunday blamed Hamas for not letting hundreds of wounded Palestinians out of Gaza as dozens of empty ambulances waited at the border.
Hamas said it was drawing up lists of the wounded but it was proving difficult to get them to the border because of the seriousness of their injuries and ongoing Israeli strikes on the impoverished territory. On Saturday the Qadhafi Foundation also dispatched a field hospital, 20 ambulances and 50 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid to Rafah.
From Lebanon to Iran, Israel’s adversaries used the weekend assault to marshal crowds into the streets for noisy demonstrations. And among regional allies there was also discontent: The prime minister of Turkey, one of the few Muslim countries to have relations with Israel, called the air assault a “crime against humanity.” The Syrian government, meanwhile, announced the suspension of its indirect peace talks with Israel because the attacks. A government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, said “Israel’s aggression closes all the doors” to a settlement in the region.
Israel and Syria held four rounds of indirect negotiations in Turkey after the peace talks were launched in May. The talks have not been convened since Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced he would step down earlier this year.
Qadhafi slams ‘cowardly’ Arab response to Gaza blitz
Maybe pakistan could also offer to send doctors and a few plane loads of humanitarian aid.
Israel pounds Gaza for second day, death toll rises to 290
Monday, December 29, 2008
TRIPOLI: Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi has accused fellow Arab leaders of adopting a “cowardly” response to Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza, and vowed to boycott an Arab summit on the crisis called for later this week.
“How many times have you called an emergency summit on Palestine,” the official JANA news agency quoted Qadhafi as asking his counterparts rhetorically.
“What action has ever resulted... For my part, I’m tired of listening to this stuck record,” he said in the speech delivered in front of a crowd of supporters on Saturday evening.
“This sort of cowardly, defeatist reaction is shameful.” Qadhafi said it was now time for Arab states to withdraw a 2002 proposal for ending the Middle East conflict which offered Israel full normalisation of relations in return for a full withdrawal from all the territories occupied in 1967 and an equitable solution to the Palestinian refugee problem.
“Make a formal announcement of its withdrawal,” the Libyan leader urged Arab heads of state attending Friday’s summit in Doha.
Libya’s Qadhafi Foundation said on Sunday it was planning an airlift to Egypt aimed at evacuating Palestinians wounded in Israel’s aerial onslaught on the Gaza Strip. It announced the move as Cairo accused the Islamist Hamas movement inside Gaza of preventing hundreds of Palestinians from leaving the bombarded coastal territory for medical treatment.
Two aircraft have been chartered to fly to El-Arish in Egypt 40-km from Egypt’s Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip to evacuate wounded to Benghazi in Libya, a spokesman for the charity told AFP.
Libya’s official JANA news agency also announced that Tripoli would pay for medical care for Palestinian wounded both inside Libya and in other countries. However Egypt on Sunday blamed Hamas for not letting hundreds of wounded Palestinians out of Gaza as dozens of empty ambulances waited at the border.
Hamas said it was drawing up lists of the wounded but it was proving difficult to get them to the border because of the seriousness of their injuries and ongoing Israeli strikes on the impoverished territory. On Saturday the Qadhafi Foundation also dispatched a field hospital, 20 ambulances and 50 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid to Rafah.
From Lebanon to Iran, Israel’s adversaries used the weekend assault to marshal crowds into the streets for noisy demonstrations. And among regional allies there was also discontent: The prime minister of Turkey, one of the few Muslim countries to have relations with Israel, called the air assault a “crime against humanity.” The Syrian government, meanwhile, announced the suspension of its indirect peace talks with Israel because the attacks. A government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, said “Israel’s aggression closes all the doors” to a settlement in the region.
Israel and Syria held four rounds of indirect negotiations in Turkey after the peace talks were launched in May. The talks have not been convened since Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced he would step down earlier this year.
Qadhafi slams ‘cowardly’ Arab response to Gaza blitz
Maybe pakistan could also offer to send doctors and a few plane loads of humanitarian aid.