Mr. Raji Sourani:

Why is Israel imposing the siege? Why are they sending us back to the Middle Ages? Why do we not have electricity? Why have we sewage polluting our entire life - sea and land, including the water table? Why have we no connection to the outside world? Why have people this level of poverty? That all leads to one outcome. That provides the entire environment and ingredients for the recipe of ISIS. One has no hope for tomorrow. There is death and poverty all over the place. One has nothing to lose, and that is the recipe. It is a miracle we do not have al-Qaeda in Gaza. I am not saying we do not have ISIS or al-Qaeda in Gaza. There are may be some pockets here and there. Chapeaufor Hamas because it is taking care of this phenomena inside the Gaza Strip which, by a miracle, we do not have as a real phenomena all over the place. I am not worried about that, but definitely nobody would guarantee anything for the future.

As I stated, the recipe is there with all the ingredients to have such a situation and I do not how matters might develop with time. That is why those, like me, who are angry and frustrated, who see the rule of the jungle operating and who see the civilised western governments providing legal and political immunity and not caring really about the applicability of the rule of law and international law, see what we have in that part of the world as the Roman Empire rules where there is law for masters but no law for slaves. We, the Palestinians, are considered like slaves. We have no holy blood, no holy souls and it is fine if we are killed or persecuted. What seems most important is Israeli Jews, not that every human being is holy, irrespective of colour, sex, nationality, race or religion. That is why we do not want to have selectivity.

A couple of days ago I came from London, and on the plane I read the Daily Mirror. There was an interview in it with the Prime Minister of the UK in which he said that Assad should not be in power because he commits war crimes and crimes against humanity and that he should be held accountable and moved from authority. I agree 100% with the Prime Minister of the UK, but this applies to Israel on the same level. They are committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is not a secret. It has been broadcast live on air in real time with the whole world watching it.

Israel has asked the Pope to apologise because he knew about the Holocaust and did not react. Can anybody say they do not know what is happening with the Palestinians? They know and they have to act, otherwise there will be this alternative - the rule of the jungle. This is not something good. It is ugly and bad and not needed.