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AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN SHEIKH PROFESSOR PALAZZI AND ISRAELI AMBASSADOR ILAN HARTUV. SHEIKH PROFESSOR PALAZZI -- ISRAELIS CRAZY TO GO ON WITH OSLO. ISRAELI AMBASSADOR HARTUV -- TALK ABOUT ISLAM AND DON'T MEDDLE IN ISRAELI POLITICS!

 

JERUSALEM, 19 Tishri, 5759 (October 9, 1998), Root & Branch:

The following is an exchange that took place between Shaykh Prof. Palazzi and retired Israeli Ambassador Ilan Hartuv.

Israeli Ambassador Hartuv Asks:

Dear Proffesore Pallaci:

I admire very much your writings. I served as the Minestro degli Affari Economici in the Israel Ambasciata in Rome between 1986 and 1990.

I just do not understand how you can call the PLO "gangsters" after they choose peace and Chairman Arafat [Abdul Rauf el-Codbi el-Husseini] got the Nobel Prize for Peace together with the two greatest Israeli leaders, Rabin and Peres.

Ciao

Israeli Ambassador Hartuv

Jerusalem, Israel

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Sheikh Professor Palazzi Answers:

Dear Ambassador:

Thank you very much for your encouraging support. It is really a pity I never had the opportunity to meet you during the years of your mission in Rome.

While dealing with a gangster ["Arafat" - Abdul Rauf el-Codbi el-Husseini] I mean the boss of an organization who, by exercising violence, intimidation and homicide, is able to earn a huge economical property for himself and his closer associated.

As I have often repeated, in my humble opinion the so-called peace agreement [Oslo Accord] is not balanced, since Israel accepts supporting the PNA and even arming his ["Arafat's" - el-Husseini's] "police", receiving in exchange some written declarations that are never implemented.

As for Peres and Rabin, while I admire the latter for his military skill and results he gained for his country as a general on the battlefield, I cannot but remember the principle according to which the "best soldiers are often the worst politicians and visa versa".

According to my understanding of international policy, Oslo was the first political defeat for Israel after 1948, and the real risk implied was losing most of what was conquered on the field in 1967.

How can people in Israel believe Arafat [el-Husseini] is sincere in accepting peace?

Does it depend on the fact that most of them do not read the "Palestinian" press and listen to the PNA media? I personally understand Arabic, and can see the difference between reliable treaties and diplomatic lies.

I also remember the late Anwar Sadat, and consider Camp David Agreement as positive. This depends on the fact that, after signing it, I never read in Cairo newspapers or heard on Egyptian TV violent anti-Semitic declarations, as well as constant anti-Jewish propaganda. [Prof. Palazzi acknoweledges, in a recent letter, that, sadly, this has changed for the worse, as Mubarak has returned to the propogandistic style of Nasser].

On the contrary, after Oslo the tone of the PNA media has never changed, the number of yearly victims of [Arab] terrorism is not decreased, Arafat [el-Husseini] has not refrained from declaring it is a temporary truce, and PNA officials have not even amended their charter.

The consequence of this and Rabin's mistake (legitimizing an international terrorist as a reliable partner and as a candidate for the Presidency of a "state") are now putting Israel in front of another risk. After having been paid and armed by Israel according to Oslo, now he ["Arafat" - el-Husseini] announces the proclamation of the "Palestinian State", having open borders with Egypt and Jordan.

As a friend, I ask from G-d protection for Israel and enlightenment for Israeli leaders to understand that declaring Oslo void is an urgent step to protect their people and save their country. With best greeting, ciao.

Sheikh Professor Abdul Hadi Palazzi

Rome, Italy

Israeli Ambassador Hartuv Comments:

Dear Professor and Imam:

Pardon me if I'm impolite, but how dare you, a foreigner tell me that my relatives and friends have to be killed in useless, unending wars. You want us to return to Gaza and Nablus. You don't want your fellow Muslims, the Palestinians [Resident Arabs], to have a foothold. Bibi [Prime Minister Netanyahu], who is a personal friend of mine, told me that he knew that if he had not said that he was for Oslo with slight changes, he would not have won the last elections. May I advise you to stick to writing about Islam, and not to make Israelis angry.

Israeli Ambassador Hartuv

Jerusalem, Israel

Sheikh Professor Palazzi Answers:

On the contrary, dear Mr. Ambassador, I hope G-d will save Israel from being weak in defense and surrounded by her armed enemies. I am glad to learn that not all Knesset members agree with your magnification of Oslo and the risks it implies.

In today's Arutz 7 News I read:

"MK Benny Begin (Likud) calls upon the Prime Minister not to merely threaten, but to act at once to halt the negotiations on an additional withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. Speaking with Arutz-7 today, Begin noted that a Palestinian [Resident Arab] state headed by Arafat [el-Husseini] would have as its basis an alliance between Arafat [el-Husseini] and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin's Hamas terrorist organization, 'which gives us an idea of the corruption and terrorism that it will feature....For months now, Arafat [el-Husseini] has permitted the broadcast of children's programs packed with incitement; these programs show children calling for 'jihad' and the like. These are not on some underground Palestinian television station - on the contrary, the media incitement is
part of official PA policy....Arafat [el-Husseini] feels quite free to air such messages, as he knows that he faces no repercussions either from Israel or the international community.' Begin observed that 'this same 'chutzpah' will also direct Arafat's [el-Husseini's] behavior at the UN.' MK Begin added that Netanyahu's warning that Arafat [el-Husseini] dare not issue a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian [Resident Arab] state is meaningless. 'Knowing that formal declaration of such a state is seven to eight months away, the government must draw a fundamental, logical conclusion: Israel should halt any plan to provide Arafat [el-Husseini] with more land, which would obviously give greater substance to the concept of an independent state,' argued Begin."

With best greetings,

Sheikh Professor Abdul Hadi Palazzi

Rome, Italy