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18th December 2010, 11:57
PFLP: UN must implement resolutions
Published today 10:55
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- "The decision to return to a popular uprising has been taken and is pending implementation," Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Khalida Jarrar told Ma'an radio on Friday.
During an interview on Hadith Al-Watan (Talking about the Homeland), the leftist party official said the PFLP would continue to boycott PLO activities (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=318291), "until the UN becomes the sponsor of the peace negotiations," and "the PLO is reformed, and freed of the Oslo Accords."
The PFLP made the decision to pull out of PLO activities on 26 September, saying they would remain part of the body, but abstain from participation as long as peace talks continued under "Israeli and US preconditions," officials said at the time.
Jarrar said the straightest way to supporting Palestinian steadfastness was to end disagreement between rival factions, a notion in line with the party's earlier calls to re-format the PLO so it included more Palestinian parties; Hamas, Islamic Jihad and some small independent parties remain outside the body.
"We must formulate a unified stance against the occupation," she said.
On peace talks
Practical steps are needed to make progress from the current peace talk quagmire, Jarrar said, slamming the Arab foreign ministers support of talks "only if a substantial proposal" came from Israel. She called the stance an "attempt to evade their responsibility towards the question of Palestine" and an "unreal expectation."
"Arab countries must stop counting on the US administration," she said, adding that time has more than proved that the administration is biased. "Arab countries must sever diplomatic relations with Israel and to stop normalization," she said.
Peace must be sought at the UN, and the international community must back the implementation of UN resolutions rather than forcing the Palestinians to negotiate for parts of them, she added.
She urged Arab countries to "provide real political support to the Palestinian people through practical steps" rather than leaving them "struggling alone," saying that it was in their best interests, and that the "question of Palestine is part of a bigger Arab question."
State recognition
Following the Friday evening decision by Bolivia to recognize a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, Jarrar said the idea of having states recognize Palestine was a move that did not "deal with core issues." She noted the recent refusal by the EU to recognize the state, which came alongside strong support for continued Palestinian institution building, and a promise that state recognition would come at the "appropriate time."
Jarrar said of the EU move, that the union would have better served Palestine if it had "taken a serious decision imposing sanctions on Israel for violating international law."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=343051
Published today 10:55
http://www.revleft.com/vb/images/ViewDetails/Eng-1.jpg http://www.revleft.com/vb/images/ViewDetails/Eng+1.jpg
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- "The decision to return to a popular uprising has been taken and is pending implementation," Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Khalida Jarrar told Ma'an radio on Friday.
During an interview on Hadith Al-Watan (Talking about the Homeland), the leftist party official said the PFLP would continue to boycott PLO activities (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=318291), "until the UN becomes the sponsor of the peace negotiations," and "the PLO is reformed, and freed of the Oslo Accords."
The PFLP made the decision to pull out of PLO activities on 26 September, saying they would remain part of the body, but abstain from participation as long as peace talks continued under "Israeli and US preconditions," officials said at the time.
Jarrar said the straightest way to supporting Palestinian steadfastness was to end disagreement between rival factions, a notion in line with the party's earlier calls to re-format the PLO so it included more Palestinian parties; Hamas, Islamic Jihad and some small independent parties remain outside the body.
"We must formulate a unified stance against the occupation," she said.
On peace talks
Practical steps are needed to make progress from the current peace talk quagmire, Jarrar said, slamming the Arab foreign ministers support of talks "only if a substantial proposal" came from Israel. She called the stance an "attempt to evade their responsibility towards the question of Palestine" and an "unreal expectation."
"Arab countries must stop counting on the US administration," she said, adding that time has more than proved that the administration is biased. "Arab countries must sever diplomatic relations with Israel and to stop normalization," she said.
Peace must be sought at the UN, and the international community must back the implementation of UN resolutions rather than forcing the Palestinians to negotiate for parts of them, she added.
She urged Arab countries to "provide real political support to the Palestinian people through practical steps" rather than leaving them "struggling alone," saying that it was in their best interests, and that the "question of Palestine is part of a bigger Arab question."
State recognition
Following the Friday evening decision by Bolivia to recognize a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, Jarrar said the idea of having states recognize Palestine was a move that did not "deal with core issues." She noted the recent refusal by the EU to recognize the state, which came alongside strong support for continued Palestinian institution building, and a promise that state recognition would come at the "appropriate time."
Jarrar said of the EU move, that the union would have better served Palestine if it had "taken a serious decision imposing sanctions on Israel for violating international law."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=343051