\r\n\tProminent US analyst, Kevin Barrett the Islamic Revolution was the key event that transformed the Palestinian struggle from one based on nationalism to one based on ethical and religious principles. The personality made the remarks in an interview with the Qods News Agency (Qodsna). Barrette also reviewed the role of Islamic Revolution in the Palestinian issue. The text of the interview follows.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tQodsna: How do you consider the direct and indirect effects of the Islamic Revolution on the Palestinian issue?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n \r\n\tBarrette:<\/strong> The Islamic Revolution was the key event that transformed the Palestinian struggle from one based on nationalism to one based on ethical and religious principles.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\tPrior to 1979, Palestinian nationalism and secular Arab nationalism dominated the resistance movement against Zionism... But the Islamic Revolution revealed to the colonized Islamic peoples all over the world that their Islamic identities were central, and that Islam could be a key element of the liberation struggle against imperialism, colonialism and Zionism, as well as a force for standing on ethical principles, no matter what the cost, rather than compromising with evil.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\tSince that time Islamic resistance has become central to the struggle against Zionism, with groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad leading the resistance (and getting support from a liberated Iran)...<\/p>\r\n \r\n\t <\/p>\r\n \r\n\tQodsna: How do you see the role of Imam Khomeini in shaping the resistance movements among Palestinian people?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n \r\n\tBarrette<\/strong>: Imam Khomeini was a visionary leader who understood the larger historical picture and insisted on standing on principle.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\tHis declaration of Quds day, among other measures and statements, helped reveal the Palestinian struggle to be an Islamic issue and a moral issue, not just a national issue.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\tHis focus on uniting all Muslims (and others of good faith) on a common platform for justice and, where necessary, revolution, is more relevant than ever today.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\t <\/p>\r\n \r\n\tQodsna: What is your opinion about the position of the Islamic Revolution towards the global Zionism?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n \r\n\tBarrette<\/strong>: The Islamic Revolution correctly recognized Zionism as an existential enemy of Islam, and a leading force of injustice, if not THE leading force of injustice, in the world today... That has not changed since 1979.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\tIf anything, it has become even clearer than it was then. Today, more and more people all over the world are discovering that the Islamic Revolution’s assessment of Zionism as an existential evil was and still is correct.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\tThanks to the decline of mainstream hegemonic media and the rise of the internet-based alternative media, the Zionists can no longer hide their horrendous crimes, nor can they conceal or deny their control of the world’s biggest banking and media empires that are driving so much of the evil that afflicts the world today.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\t <\/p>\r\n \r\n\tQodsna: How did the Islamic Revolution topicalize the fight against Zionism in the Western countries?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n \r\n\tBarrette<\/strong>: Once the Zionists understood that the Islamic Revolution would endure, and would not abandon its principled anti-Zionist stance, they panicked. Instead of facing perhaps ten million Palestinians tepidly backed by corrupt and disunited Arab nationalist regimes, they suddenly found themselves confronting the prospect of more than a billion Muslims determined to end the Zionist plague and restore justice in Palestine.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\tSince Muslim warriors do not fear death when they are fighting in a just cause, and since the cause of the liberation of Palestine is the most obviously just cause imaginable, it seemed impossible that ten million corrupt, egotistical, death-fearing Zionist Jews could hope to prevail indefinitely against more than a billion fearless Muslims.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\tSo the panicking Zionists resorted to a desperate gamble: The staged the “attack on America” of September 11th, 2001, murdering three thousand people in a public relations stunt designed to drag the whole West into a genocidal War on Islam for Israel.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\tAs Dr. Alan Sabrosky of the US Army War College said, “The Zionists are playing this (their 9\/11 attack on America) as an all-or-nothing exercise.” Today we are living with the fallout from that desperate act, and the subsequent Zionist false flag terror stunts that followed.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2016-02-08 15:42:37","content_date_finish":"2016-02-08 15:42:37","content_date_register":"2016-02-08 15:42:37","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"126304","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"1225006330","attach_date_register":"2016-02-08 15:42:40","attach_id":"132007","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"600","attach_img_height":"400","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"520","visit_date_last":"2025-05-09 19:49:03","attach_title":"US analyst higlights of role of Islamic Revolution on Palestinian issue","node_title":"Interviews","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":135, \"left\":27, \"right\":28}]"}]]