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| The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Question of Palestinian Statehood |
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It is unquestionable that if the Palestinians stopped their support of the Islamic Republic, the prospects for Palestinian statehood would definitely be higher. It is not in the best interests of the Palestinians to have terrorist acts committed against Israel. As Weinstein has mentioned (May, 2003), terrorist activity only instigates military retaliations against innocent Palestinians.
It has become increasingly clear that the Islamic Republic’s support for Hizbullah, and Iraq’s support (under former president Saddam Hussein) for Hamas has made Palestine a strategic ground. The Palestinian issue has become strategically important because support for the Shiite Hizbullah group (by Iran’s clerics) and the Sunni Hamas (by Saddam Hussein) advance ambitions for exerting political influence. Palestine has become a competing ground where the Shiite-Sunni rivalry is amongst many transparent and significant issues. Support for terrorism has often been a means to perpetuate violence, which has been beneficial for dictatorships in the Middle East, including the brand of religious fascism coined by Khomeini.
Nima Shirali is the co-founder of the Middle Eastern Reconciliation Forum (MERF) www.merecforum.org
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