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Source: http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/815/4702.htm
A Palestinian Reformist in Ramallah
(MEMRI) Zainab Rashid - In an interview posted on the liberal Arab website Aafaq on Oct. 4, Palestinian reformist Zainab Rashid said: "I am a Palestinian who experiences and endures the same things suffered by any Palestinian woman....The suffering is two-fold: she lives in a chauvinistic society, which continues to treat women as immature and incompetent beings...and she suffers [both] from the occupation and from the rule [of the Palestinian Authority], whose methods, until some three years ago...resembled the methods of gangs rather than institutions." "Unfortunately, the Palestinians consider themselves to be the greatest of the Muslim believers, at the forefront of the religious battle that they are waging against the hated Jews - a battle that is supposed to continue until Judgment Day." "There is a general tendency, which most Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims are still promoting successfully, [to see] Palestine as the central cause of the Arabs and Muslims, and as the greatest humanitarian tragedy of all times....It is not the greatest tragedy. The tragedy of Iraq and the Iraqi people under Saddam's regime...and then under the army of Muslim suicide [bombers] has been immeasurably greater than that of our people. The tragedy of Sudan and the Sudanese people, especially the inhabitants of Darfur under Omar Hassan Al-Bashir's criminal regime, is an infinitely greater tragedy than ours." "Hamas received a directive from the Syrian and Iranian regimes which control it to carry out two attacks in the West Bank, shortly before the first session of peace talks, with the intent of undermining the negotiations. This is what all the dictatorships have done throughout the history of this struggle in order to prevent its resolution."