UPDATE-Yassin’s assassination is a clear defiance against Arabs and Muslims: Saleh

With more quotes) SANA’A,(Saba) –The assassination of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, the leader or the Palestinian Hamas movement was a “clear defiance against the Arabs and Muslims not just Palestinians,” President Ali Abdullah Saleh said Tuesday. Addressing a mass protest against the killing of Yassin, President Saleh said that “After the Beirut (Arab) summit Sharon blockaded Arafat in Ramallah, then he killed Ahmad Yassin before the Tunis summit.” “The Palestinians have suffer from the Zionist terrorism because of the absence of the Arab solidarity.” President Saleh pointed out that “if Sheikh Yassin was murdered, there are still thousands of freedom fighters among Palestinians.” “This act is a letter to the Arab and Muslim nations and the second letter from the Zionist entity is to be sent Arafat.” “When the Arabs would weak up and realize that this is a challenge for the Arab peoples,” Saleh wondered. He called the Palestinian groups to join their powers “to face this Zionist terrorism.” Saleh also slammed the recent initiatives about reforms in the region, dubbing them as “Zionist conspiracies” against the Arab and Muslim nations. “The foreign pressures on the Arab to make political, social and economic reforms in the Middle East would not make any change because of the fact that these reforms should come form the Arabs themselves not from outside,”the President said. “We do not accept any foreign pressures”He added. President Saleh also called the United Nation to impose sanctions on Israel and to “prosecute Sharon before the International Criminal Court as a war criminal and terrorist.” “He (Sharon) is the world’s No. 1 terrorist. There is no terrorism like Sharon’s, who is killing the innocent ,women and children in Palestine.” JW/KMSABA