Shallah: Abbas’s step against Goldstone’s report torpedoed reconciliation
[ 11/10/2009 - 05:06 PM ]
DAMASCUS , (PIC)-- Dr. Ramadan Shallah, the secretary-general of Islamic Jihad Movement, stated that Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to delay Goldstone’s report torpedoed the reconciliation efforts and took everything back to square one.
In a press statement published Sunday by Palestine newspaper, Shallah said that Abbas’s position toward Goldstone’s report was not taken as a result of miscalculation or pressure, it was the fruit of his historic contempt for the resistance.
“Any new reconciliation efforts made to address the division must be built on clear bases adherent to the resistance as the only way to restore our usurped rights,” the Islamic Jihad leader underlined.
He stressed that Abbas frustrated the efforts of a wide network of international human rights organizations that strongly raised their voice, for the first time, condemning the Israeli occupation.
“The whole world caught the head of the Palestinian Authority washing the enemy’s hands which are stained with the blood of our people, while the organizations were shocked to see the victim trying to exonerate the executioner,” he added.
As for the PA’s allegations that it was pressured by Arabs to delay the report, the leader of Islamic Jihad refuted the attempts by the PA to lay the responsibility for its actions over other parties, citing as an example that the Egyptian foreign minister stated clearly that his country had no previous idea that Abbas would take such a step against Goldstone’s report.
In the same context, the higher follow-up committee of the Palestinian national conference stated Sunday that the PA’s position regarding Goldstone’s report was detrimental to the Palestinian people’s rights and interests, adding that this national crime must not go unpunished.
This came in a statement made during a meeting held by the follow-up committee in Damascus and attended by the general secretaries of the Palestinian factions who participated in the Palestinian national conference.
The statement stressed the need for delaying the signing of a reconciliation agreement as a result of Abbas’s political scandal.
The statement also deplored the Israeli violations against the occupied city of Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque and called for taking serious steps to protect them.
[ 11/10/2009 - 05:06 PM ]
DAMASCUS , (PIC)-- Dr. Ramadan Shallah, the secretary-general of Islamic Jihad Movement, stated that Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to delay Goldstone’s report torpedoed the reconciliation efforts and took everything back to square one.
In a press statement published Sunday by Palestine newspaper, Shallah said that Abbas’s position toward Goldstone’s report was not taken as a result of miscalculation or pressure, it was the fruit of his historic contempt for the resistance.
“Any new reconciliation efforts made to address the division must be built on clear bases adherent to the resistance as the only way to restore our usurped rights,” the Islamic Jihad leader underlined.
He stressed that Abbas frustrated the efforts of a wide network of international human rights organizations that strongly raised their voice, for the first time, condemning the Israeli occupation.
“The whole world caught the head of the Palestinian Authority washing the enemy’s hands which are stained with the blood of our people, while the organizations were shocked to see the victim trying to exonerate the executioner,” he added.
As for the PA’s allegations that it was pressured by Arabs to delay the report, the leader of Islamic Jihad refuted the attempts by the PA to lay the responsibility for its actions over other parties, citing as an example that the Egyptian foreign minister stated clearly that his country had no previous idea that Abbas would take such a step against Goldstone’s report.
In the same context, the higher follow-up committee of the Palestinian national conference stated Sunday that the PA’s position regarding Goldstone’s report was detrimental to the Palestinian people’s rights and interests, adding that this national crime must not go unpunished.
This came in a statement made during a meeting held by the follow-up committee in Damascus and attended by the general secretaries of the Palestinian factions who participated in the Palestinian national conference.
The statement stressed the need for delaying the signing of a reconciliation agreement as a result of Abbas’s political scandal.
The statement also deplored the Israeli violations against the occupied city of Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque and called for taking serious steps to protect them.
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