PA TV Sermon

Palestinian Media Watch/IMRA carried the following from PA TV:

"On Feb. 4, 2005, senior Palestinian religious figure Ibrahim Mudyris delivered the official Friday sermon broadcast on PA television:
'We tell you Palestine, we shall return to you, by Allah's will, we shall return to every village, every town....Our willingness to return to the 1967 borders does not mean that we have given up on the land of Palestine. No!'
'We shall return to the 1967 borders, but it does not mean that we have given up on Jerusalem and Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramla, Netanya [Al-Zuhour], and Tel Aviv [Tel Al-Rabia]. Never.'
'Our approval to return to the 1967 borders is not a concession for our other rights. No!'
'This generation might not achieve this stage, but generations will come, and the land of Palestine...will demand that the Palestinians will return the way Muhammad returned there, as a conqueror.' "

The roadmap is similar to the definition of remarriage -- it is the triumph of hope over experience -- but with deadlier consequences.