IMRA has posted the transcript of this BBC interview with Ahmed Jbarra (a/k/a Abu Sukar), the palestinian terrorist who was released from Israeli prison earlier this month as a gesture to Abu Mazen and who has now been appointed "special advisor" to Yasser Arafat. Mr. Jbarra, you may recall, planted a bomb-laden refrigerator in the middle of one of Jerusalem's busiest public squares back in July, 1975. More than a dozen people died and several dozen more were injured in the blast.
Here's an excerpt from the interview. (The BBC interviewer is James Reynolds -- "JR".)
JR: Do you have any remorse for the bombing?
AJ: When we fight, we fight for peace. We never fight for (to) kill people. But, before you ask this question for me, ask for the Israelis if they make the same thing.
JR: But I often do - I often ask Israelis in the aftermath of attacks, which kill Palestinians how, they feel, and that's the question I asked you as 13 Israelis were killed.
AJ: They never feel sorry about that - they never.
JR: But what about you?
AJ: I had a home. I had land, I had a state, but now I didn't have anything. I didn't have anything now.
JR: Nevertheless 13 people were killed because of what you did.
AJ: The Israeli people, they killed many, many people of us.
JR: Does that justify killing on the other side?
AJ: Because they kill us. They kill us, they kill many children.
JR: But again, does that justify killing 13 people in the centre of Jerusalem?
AJ: The operation killed 13 people and injured over 78 people. But this is just (because) we (are) fighting for peace.
I'm especially curious as to what exactly he means when he says "I had a home. I had land, I had a state, but now I didn't have anything." So what "state," exactly, would that be?
Listen to the whole thing. Or read it here.
