Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Palestine: U.S. Preventing Support for PA

RAMALLAH  – The Palestinian prime minister said on Monday the U.S. administration is preventing Arab states from supporting the Palestinian Authority to force it to barter its national rights for money.
During the weekly cabinet meeting, Mohammed Ishtaye said that "U.S. President Donald Trump cut off aid to us and prevented some Arab states from fulfilling their obligations towards us to besiege the leadership and the Palestinian people politically, economically and financially.”
"Our Palestinian people have the rights to establish their independent state on the borders of 1967 with East al-Quds as its capital,” Ishtaye said.
Recently, the United States sponsored agreements between the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and the Zionist regime, which have sparked anger of the Palestinians.
The Palestinian Authority and resistance factions denounced the deals, saying they did not serve the Palestinian cause and ignore the rights of Palestinians.
A day earlier, a Fatah movement official revealed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused to negotiate with the U.S. although he was under pressure from Arab regimes.
"President Abbas is facing unprecedented pressure from Arabs and the international sphere to negotiate with the U.S. administration and take the customs revenues cut by Israel, but he does not accept it,” Mahmoud Al-Aloul, deputy chief of Fatah told the official Palestinian television channel H on Sunday.
He said everyone knows that the Zionist regime tried to liquidate the Palestine cause but Palestinians choose to stand up against the oppression.
The Palestinian Authority will never return to its previous situation and stopped coordinating with the Zionist regime, he said.
U.S. Ambassador to the occupied territories, David Friedman, has openly admitted that America is considering replacing Mahmoud Abbas with Fatah’s dismissed leader, Mohammed Dahlan.
Friedman made the comments on Friday in an interview with Israel Today, which is known to be close to the Zionist regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
When asked whether the U.S. administration is considering nominating Dahlan, who currently lives in the UAE, as the new Palestinian leader, Friedman replied: "We are thinking about it.”
The newspaper pointed out that according to reports, the United States may support Dahlan in order to remove Abbas.

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