[ 10/03/2010 - 05:12 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya said that the Arab decision endorsing resumption of negotiations between the PA in Ramallah and the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) was wrong.
Haneyya, who was initiating the first stage of the "Road to Jerusalem" project in Gaza on Wednesday, said that the decision encouraged Zionists to accelerate the settlement drive in the West Bank.
He pointed to the IOA announcement of building new settlement units while American vice president Joe Biden was in the region as a clear American cover to such settlement activity.
The premier asked the "Arab brothers" and the Ramallah officials to benefit from this incident and stop racing behind the mirage of futile negotiations with the IOA and opt instead to restoring Palestinian unity and to support the Palestinian people's steadfastness and resistance against occupation.
For his part, senior Hamas leader in Israeli jails Abbas Al-Sayyed said on Wednesday that the PA decision to resume peace talks with Israel while there is escalating settlement expansion on the ground is a big political farce and manipulation of the higher interests of the Palestinian people.
“What sense does it make to have indirect political negotiations while on the ground, there is direct, daily security coordination targeting all elements of steadfastness and fortitude which our people have?” Sayyed stressed in a letter leaked from Israeli jails.
Barghouthi: “Indirect Talks Should Stop”
Wednesday March 10, 2010 12:43 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies
Palestinian Legislator, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, called on the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank to void its approval for holding talks with the Israeli government on Benjamin Netanyahu.
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi - Wikimedia
Barghouthi stated that Netanyahu acts like the head of a government of settlers, and that the decision to hold talks with his government would only encourage Israel to carry further violations, and would boost his fundamental government.
He added that “the Arabs gave Netanyahu four months while he did not even grant them four hours”, and responded to the Arab offer to give a chance for indirect peace talks by deciding to build 112 new units for Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and 1600 units in occupied East Jerusalem.
Barghouthi further stated that Netanyahu and his government are escalating their violations against the Palestinians, and the holy sites such as the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the Ibrahimi Mosque in Jerusalem and the Bilal Mosque in Bethlehem.
He added that Palestinian unity is needed to boost the popular nonviolent resistance and the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign against the occupation and the government of Netanyahu.
The Palestinian Legislator said that the idleness of the International Community is encouraging Israel to escalate its violations and attacks, and that the indirect talks with Netanyahu and his government will lead to new Israeli provocations.
“He [Netanyahu] does not want peace, he wants his own version of the solution”, Barghouthi said, “Netanyahu’s idea of a Palestinian State is a group of isolated ghettoes surrounded and controlled by Israel”.
River to SeaHe added that “the Arabs gave Netanyahu four months while he did not even grant them four hours”, and responded to the Arab offer to give a chance for indirect peace talks by deciding to build 112 new units for Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and 1600 units in occupied East Jerusalem.
Barghouthi further stated that Netanyahu and his government are escalating their violations against the Palestinians, and the holy sites such as the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the Ibrahimi Mosque in Jerusalem and the Bilal Mosque in Bethlehem.
He added that Palestinian unity is needed to boost the popular nonviolent resistance and the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign against the occupation and the government of Netanyahu.
The Palestinian Legislator said that the idleness of the International Community is encouraging Israel to escalate its violations and attacks, and that the indirect talks with Netanyahu and his government will lead to new Israeli provocations.
“He [Netanyahu] does not want peace, he wants his own version of the solution”, Barghouthi said, “Netanyahu’s idea of a Palestinian State is a group of isolated ghettoes surrounded and controlled by Israel”.
Uprooted Palestinian
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