PFLP: Abbas` policy will inflict damage on the Palestinian cause

Source: PIC, 12-8-2007
DAMASCUS - Maher Al-Taher, a member of the political bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), stated that the policy exercised by PA chief Mahmoud Abbas inflicted great damage on the struggle of the Palestinian people.
He pointed out that those who rush towards negotiations with the "Zionist entity" did not draw the lessons of the previous stage, which got the Palestinian cause into "a maze of dark tunnels".
"If the PA continued to proceed in this method, which has proven a failure, it will inflict more damage on the image of national struggle and on the essence of the Palestinian cause," Taher said in a statement to the PIC.
Regarding the PFLP`s efforts to heal the internal rift, Taher explained that the Front held meetings with a number of Palestinian factions and forces in the Gaza Strip in order to crystallize a draft paving the way for a comprehensive national dialogue.
He added that the Front held several meetings with Hamas and Fatah, and discussed the complexities of the current Palestinian reality and the ways to break the impasse, describing those meetings as "better than the previous ones".
Commenting on the statement by "Israeli" war minister Ehud Barak, who ruled out the withdrawal of the IOF troops from the West Bank "for at least five years" as well as the possibility of reaching an agreement soon with the PA, he said: "Barak`s statements come in the context of distributing roles within the IOA, these roles that ultimately serve the Zionist policy which is based on non-withdrawal to the borders of June 4, 1967, Jerusalem (al-Quds) as the eternal capital of ‘Israel', and the termination of Palestinian refugees` right of return."
He warned that everything is talked about by the PA such as the declaration of principles, and a general framework to deal with specific issues, is a mere illusion exploited by the IOA to gain more time to expand settlements and judaize the Palestinian land; in addition, it is an exposed Zio-American scenario to cool the Palestinian front in preparation for a new attack on another front in the region.