DAMASCUS (PIC)– Dr. Maher Al-Taher a senior official of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine (PFLP) strongly denounced the Arab-backed decision taken by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to resume indirect negotiations with Israel saying this decision would cover up settlement and Judaization activities in Palestine.
Dr. Taher warned that there are no Zio-American guarantees for the success of the PA-Israeli peace talks stressing that the Arab support for the PA decision to restart indirect negotiations with Israel comes after Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu dealt several blows to the PA and Arabs who wagered on the option of settlement.
“America always declares it stands by Israel and confirms its commitment to the protection of Israel’s security. It practices a kind of deception and misinformation. There are no guarantees or pledges to freeze settlement and curb Israel” the PFLP official emphasized.
For its part the Movement of Islamic Jihad said the decision to resume the PA-Israeli decision was already taken in the White House and the Arabs are deprived of any ability to take any position on the Palestinian cause.
An Islamic Jihad official said in a press release on Sunday that the Arab ministerial meeting lacks any practical value and has no power to decide whether or not to resume negotiations describing the Arab decision in this regard as a mere political cover-up.
The official stressed that the Palestinian people and the Arab masses are being deceived about the reality of the PA-Israeli negotiations denying that Israel froze its settlement activities as it claimed earlier and affirming that the facts on the ground prove otherwise.
He added that facts on the ground indicate there is a real threat to the whole Palestinian national project as a result of the impotent official Arab position and the state of weakness which the negotiation team is living in.
For his part Syrian ambassador to Cairo Yousuf Ahmed criticized the statement issued by the Arab peace initiative committee on the resumption of talks between the PA and Israel.
Ahmed said following the meeting of the initiative committee that Syria and other Arab countries have different positions on this statement which contradicted the statement of the Arab summit held a month ago in Libya which confirmed at the time that there would be no negotiations before a complete cessation of settlement activities or receiving a written US pledge in this regard.
He slammed Mahmoud Abbas for accepting oral reassurances from the American administration although he experienced many times its positions and pledges.
