Do Not Contemplate A Return to Negotiations...... Join Us This Saturday In Ramallah And Nablus
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 February 2012 15:06
At a time when the Amman "exploratory talks" have reached a dead end, much like other negotiation attempts which have been failing for the past 20 years, representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) will consult this Saturday February 4th with the Arab League Follow-up Committee about ways out of the political impasse, including the possibility of a return to negotiations, in complete disregard to the Palestinian majority which rejects negotiations under the current circumstances.
Pressure is growing on the PLO to return to negotiations despite Israel's on going colonization of our land, ongoing arrests, demolition of Palestinian homes, and denial of Palestinians' basic rights inside and outside of occupied Palestine. Instead of challenging the Israeli government's colonial policies and holding it accountable to international law, Ms. Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, is exerting even more pressure on the PLO and urging a return to negotiations.
After the talks in Amman have been a failure, we ask you and ourselves, what is left for us? Our message to the PLO:
DO NOT CONTEMPLATE A RETURN TO NEGOTIATIONS!
We call upon the PLO leadership to stand by your decision not to return negotiations, whether covert or overt, or under any guise or any sort of pressure. We also ask you not to waste more time and to immediately embrace our people and work to achieve unity; to work with all Palestinian political factions and civil society groups to formulate a national strategy of steadfastness and resistance, in hand with a complete political, economic, cultural and academic boycott of the Zionist entity; and to conduct democratic and direct elections to the Palestine National Council for Palestinians everywhere.
We will stand outside the Moqata'a (Presidential Headquarters) this Saturday, February 4, at 1:00 pm in occupied Ramallah, and at the same time in Martyrs' Square in occupied Nablus, to say to the PLO leadership: "Do not contemplate a return to negotiations." And do not bother yourselves or the Arab governments with perpetuating what has failed over the last 20 years. And know that the Palestinian people have already made their choice, and they chose to be resolute.
