PFLP: Peace talks are an 'endless maze'

January 3, 2010

Gaza – Ma’an – The Leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Sunday denounced what it said was international pressure on Palestinians to resume negotiations with Israel.

"Various pressures the Palestinians are trying to drag them again to the fruitless maze of negotiations and to go chasing the illusion of misleading American and Israeli solutions," the PFLP said in a statement issued from its offices in Gaza.

The secular PFLP has joined Islamists historically in opposing the peace process with Israel, which it sees as slanted toward coaxing Palestinians to make more concessions.

The group called on the international community, "if they are interested in justice and peace, to move responsibly and urgently to lift the siege of Gaza and rebuild tens of thousands of homes and establishments and release thousands of prisoners from Israeli jails."

The remarks come amid renewed speculation that the Palestinian Authority (PA) could resume negotiations with Israel. News reports late last week said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited President Mahmoud Abbas to a trilateral peace summit with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Abbas’ spokesman, Nabil Abu Rdeina told Ma’an on Friday, however, that the PA had received no invitation to a summit.

The PFLP also warned that Israel’s intention is to impose a Palestinian state with temporary borders through a process of eviscerating Palestinians’ political, geographic and social cohesion.

"Returning to an endless, so-called peace process became an end in itself for US diplomacy," the Front said.

Negotiations, the PFLP said, "will bring more disappointment, loss of dignity and violations of rights."

Source: Uruknet.
Link: http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=61775&s2=04.