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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