Qatar University Political Science Professor Muhammad Al-Musfir: All Arab Leaders Should Commit Suicide; Tzipi Livni Is a "Creature"

Following are excerpts from an interview with Muhamamd Al-Musfir, a professor of political science at Qatar University, which aired on Al-Rai TV on September 24, 2008:

Muhammad Al-Musfir: The Arab leaders should all commit suicide, because they are responsible for the tragedy in Iraq. Look what these Arab leaders are doing together with Iran and the United States – they are competing among themselves who will warn the U.S. against attacking Iran. I am happy about this, by the way.

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It is a lie that I coordinated between Shimon Peres and Hamas.

Interviewer: Have you met with Shimon Peres?

Muhammad Al-Musfir: I never have, and I never will. My hand will never shake the hand of a Zionist – even if it is chopped off.

Interviewer: Tzipi Livni was in Doha a few days ago...

Muhammad Al-Musfir: Yes...

Interviewer: You have a dissenting view with regard to the Doha conference as well...

Muhammad Al-Musfir: Not with regard to the conference itself, but with regard to her participation in the conference. I wrote in the local papers... Allah be praised, in Qatar, we can exercise freedom of expression without being harmed. I wrote about the Doha conference and about the participation of the Israeli foreign minister in it that it is not necessary for this "creature" – I call her a "creature" – to participate in such an international conference, because she would divert the conference away from its real goals – democracy and its consolidation, not only in Qatar, but in the Arab world in particular, and in the Third World in general. Therefore, such a woman – or rather, such a "creature" – would reduce the value of the conference.

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Your Al-Zawraa TV was viewed throughout the Arab world. Why did they eliminate it? Because it presented the achievements of the Iraqi resistance and the failures of the occupation, its collaborators, and its thieves. It explained all this to the viewers, and it was the most popular channel, with the exception of Al-Jazeera – if not as popular as Al-Jazeera TV. They killed this channel. Who did? The Arab regimes. On whose orders? The Americans and the Israelis.