[IslamCity] Faulty Palestinian Sanctions Provoke Hatred: Turkish PM

[S A Hannan]

Faulty Palestinian Sanctions Provoke Hatred: Turkish PM "We have to ...not repeat the same mistakes we have done in the past," Erdogan said. SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, May 22, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, May 21, blasted as a "mistake" the international aid freeze slapped on the Palestinians people, warning this would only fan hatred. "Those people will be provoked into hatred with the sanctions imposed on them and they will have nothing else to lose by then," Erodgan said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, currently held in this Red Sea resort, said Reuters. "So we have to review the steps we have taken in that direction," he stressed. The Palestinians have been facing serious shortages of food and medicine since the US and the EU suspended direct aid to the Hamas-led government. The two sides have also ruptured ties with the new government. Israel has also stopped transferring customs duties worth around $50 million a month and previously collected for the Palestinian Authority. Erdogan likened this to the way Israel and the West tried to ostracize Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat before the 1993 Oslo peace agreements. "We have to ...not repeat the same mistakes we have done in the past. Condemning the people of Palestine to famine and to further amounts of suffering will end up in worse repercussions," he warned. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Friday, May 5, that a humanitarian crisis was now "on our doorstep" in the Gaza Strip due to the aid freeze. Aid The Turkish premier said he had conveyed his views to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. "We (Turkey and Egypt) have agreed that we have to provide aid to Palestine because this is a responsibility entrusted to us as a country in the Middle East," he added. Erdogan said Turkey will offer humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the occupied territories. "It's not in the form of finance. It's all about food and medicine. They will be allocated for distribution through the Palestinian Authority," he added. Also Sunday, Malaysia, current chairman of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), pledged $16 million in aid to the Palestinians. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, also attending the WEF, said Arab and Muslim countries had a duty to "lighten the load on the Palestinian people who are suffering." Muslim scholars stressed during a conference held in Doha on May 11-12 that it was a duty on Muslims worldwide to help the starving Palestinian people. Also read: Palestinian Aid Muslim Duty: Scholars Back To News Page Please feel free to contact News editor at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************************************************** {Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy Quran-16:125) {And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33) The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim] The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)  also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all." [Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recommended: http://www.islamonline.net http://www.islam-guide.com http://www.prophetmuhammadforall.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All views expressed herein belong to the individuals concerned and do not in any way reflect the official views of IslamCity unless sanctioned or approved otherwise. If your mailbox clogged with mails from IslamCity, you may wish to get a daily digest of emails by logging-on to http://www.yahoogroups.com to change your mail delivery settings or email the moderators at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the title "change to daily digest". SPONSORED LINKS Holy quran YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "islamcity" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.

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