World NewsOccupation
'worse than Nazis'
By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic
Editor
THE Saudi envoy to
London was embroiled in a diplomatic
row yesterday after describing the
Israeli occupation of Palestinian land
as worse than the Nazi occupation of
Europe.
Ghazi Algosaibi, who caused
outrage
this year when he wrote a poem
dedicated to a Palestinian teenage girl
suicide bomber, said: "This is a war of
occupation, far more severe than
anything the Germans did when they
occupied Europe in World War Two."
The veteran diplomat told a meeting
of the Arab Research Centre in London
that the spate of suicide attacks
against Israeli civilian targets was
simply a form of defence by
Palestinians who had no other means to
fight.
Last night a Foreign Office
spokesman described the remarks as
"wrong and insensitive".
write to David
Irving