Interview with Bijan Barikban
QUESTION 1: Why are you a creditable source?
Answer: Because of personal experience and family heritage. He has a uncle that lives in Palestine.
QUESTION 2: What is your reaction to the current violence going on in Israel?
Answer: I believe that the reason for the violence is questionable. I dont understand why we both cant get what we want.
QUESTION 3: What is your personal stance on the Israeli palestinian conflict?
Answer: I believe that there should be a 2 state Solution. Over the course of the past ten years at least, a sense that the only way out of the situation in the Middle East is to establish a State of Palestine alongside Israel so that there will be an end of conflict.
QUESTION 4: How do you feel on Palestinian Refugees' "Right of Return"?
Answer: I feel as if my answer is biased but implementing the Palestinian 'right of return' amounts to abolishing the Jewish people's right to self determination. It will make the Jewish people a minor ethnic group at the mercy of Muslims, a 'protected minority', just as fundamentalist Islam would have it. It would mean eradicating Israel.
QUESTION 5: What is your reaction to Israel wnating to build a wall?
Answer: This wall is not about security. It is about entrenching the occupation and the de facto annexation of large areas of the Palestinian land.
QUESTION 6: Arab State Relations with Israel?
Answer: Israel is our enemy and does not want peace. Peace would mean that Israel would have to return the occupied territories again. Israel was built on aggression and the rejection of peace, and nothing changes.
QUESTION 7: Hamas and the Peace Process?
Answer: We should give Hamas time. I'm sure that Hamas will develop, will evolve. We should not prejudge the issue. We object to whatever policies on the part of the Israeli Government right now that are cutting the right of the Palestinians to receive their dues. So it's only a matter of time on that. We are sure that the Palestinians will recognize the requirements of the situation as they stand today.
QUESTION 8: Legality of Israeli Settlements in the West Bank?
Answer: Determines that all measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem.
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QUESTION 1: Why are you a creditable source?
Answer: Because of personal experience and family heritage. He has a uncle that lives in Palestine.
QUESTION 2: What is your reaction to the current violence going on in Israel?
Answer: I believe that the reason for the violence is questionable. I dont understand why we both cant get what we want.
QUESTION 3: What is your personal stance on the Israeli palestinian conflict?
Answer: I believe that there should be a 2 state Solution. Over the course of the past ten years at least, a sense that the only way out of the situation in the Middle East is to establish a State of Palestine alongside Israel so that there will be an end of conflict.
QUESTION 4: How do you feel on Palestinian Refugees' "Right of Return"?
Answer: I feel as if my answer is biased but implementing the Palestinian 'right of return' amounts to abolishing the Jewish people's right to self determination. It will make the Jewish people a minor ethnic group at the mercy of Muslims, a 'protected minority', just as fundamentalist Islam would have it. It would mean eradicating Israel.
QUESTION 5: What is your reaction to Israel wnating to build a wall?
Answer: This wall is not about security. It is about entrenching the occupation and the de facto annexation of large areas of the Palestinian land.
QUESTION 6: Arab State Relations with Israel?
Answer: Israel is our enemy and does not want peace. Peace would mean that Israel would have to return the occupied territories again. Israel was built on aggression and the rejection of peace, and nothing changes.
QUESTION 7: Hamas and the Peace Process?
Answer: We should give Hamas time. I'm sure that Hamas will develop, will evolve. We should not prejudge the issue. We object to whatever policies on the part of the Israeli Government right now that are cutting the right of the Palestinians to receive their dues. So it's only a matter of time on that. We are sure that the Palestinians will recognize the requirements of the situation as they stand today.
QUESTION 8: Legality of Israeli Settlements in the West Bank?
Answer: Determines that all measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem.
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