PFLP: No US guarantees received by PLO
Ma’an – 03/05/2010
Bethlehem – No written or oral guarantees on a settlement halt have been received by the PLO from the US or the Arab Follow-Up Committee, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said Monday, prompting the group to call for an end to peace talks.
The movement’s Executive Committee further said no assurances were put forward as far as reference points for talks, making them a dangerous endeavor in which Palestinians had a lot to lose.
In its statement, the group called on President Mahmoud Abbas to “respect the decision of national consensus and refuse to bow to pressure,” and ultimately postpone talks until such assurances could be made.
The PFLP said US promises “made for the media cannot be taken seriously” and do not fall within the PLO’s decisions or national consensus on refusing to enter peace talks until a full settlement halt in land occupied by Israel in 1967 was achieved.
The decision by the Arab Follow-Up Committee to endorse entering talks “would only serve Israeli interests,” the PLFP wrote, adding that the movement rejects any decision to recommence negotiations with Israel.
Hamas calls move ‘cover for Judization’
Responding to a second report, this time in Israel’s English language daily The Jerusalem’s Post, Hamas official Salah Al-Bardawil called the PA agreement to return to peace talks a cover for Israeli to “Judaize” Jerusalem, and mistreat of Palestinian prisoners.
The report was based on a news conference hosted by Israel Land Fund founder Aryeh King on Sunday, where the builder told reporters that nearly 200,000 new Israeli-only housing units are tipped for construction in East Jerusalem.
“If Jerusalem doesn’t expand, and expand eastward, it will become the Gaza Strip,” King was quoted as saying by the daily.
A statement issued by Al-Bardawil said Israel’s practices in the occupied part of the city ensure that negotiations will “encourage Israel to commit more crimes against the Palestinians and their rights.”
Al-Bardawil further said Israel had “succeed in convincing [President Mahmoud] Abbas to press on with talks, which only lead to further land confiscation.”
Abbas announced on Sunday that the PLO endorsed re-entering US-brokered indirect talks with Israel, sanctioned a day prior by the Arab League during a Cairo summit convened to discuss the future of peace talks.
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The lack of action or any genuine activity by the US should be seen as all part of the Israeli/US master plan. Keep building buildings, ignore the pleas of the Palestinians and create as many delays as possible while the pressure for real genuine change just vaporises. After all if the Israeli controlled world press eliminates any talk of Palestine, it may just go away.
I am convinced that the US is party to this sleight of hand when one sees the subservience by Clinton, a failure as a Secretary of State, to the AIPAC Congress and Senate,which it has now become. And poor old Joe, once a Vice President, now a lackey for the Zionists, hasn’t said a word about the problem he was going to solve when he last went to Israel only to be told to shut up and conform to the Israeli building expansion plan.
Of course such perfidy as the US has been shown in no uncertain terms by the Israelis in the USS Liberty matter should have prepared anyone observer for more of the same in Palestine. Then to follow that up with Lyndon Johnson ignoring the 200 injured crew and 34 deaths compounded also by every President in the last 40 years.
To add insult to injury, Clinton now seems to be preoccupied with Iran and that makes Palestine even further away from any serious consideration. It is called international diplomacy, as played by the United States of Israel.
But hang in there Palestine. The rest of the world knows you are there and want to help and will find a way, somehow.
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