The Palestinian Fatah movement has stressed Palestine's sovereignty even though it is under occupation, hitting out at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, after he said Palestinians must commit to negotiations with Israel.
"Mr. Pompeo, when will you realize that our people always choose their leadership and that Palestine, although it is a state under occupation, is not a banana republic?" Munir Jaghoub, Head of Fatah’s Information Department in the Office of Mobilization and Organization, said in a post on Facebook on Saturday.
According to Press TV, in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica on Friday, Pompeo expressed hope that the Palestinians would join the US and commit to serious negotiations with Israel following Tel Aviv's normalization agreements with some Arab states.
When asked what was needed to do so, given that the Palestinian Authority (PA) considered the agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain void, Pompeo said, “(The Palestinians) must commit to dialogue.”
“You have to realize that dignity, self-pride and confidence in the future is an authentic Palestinian commodity,” the Fatah leader added.
He reaffirmed the Palestinians' rejection of all US-mediated plans, including the so-called West Asia peace plan, aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause, saying that peace in the region is only possible after Israel’s withdrawal from the Occupied Territories and recognition of Palestine’s right to establish a state on the basis of the 1967 borders, with East al-Quds as its capital.
“We will not talk to anyone on the ground of the so-called deal of the century, and the only dialogue we will accept must be based on international legitimacy and aims to end the occupation and establish an independent Palestinian state with East al-Quds as its capital on the borders of June 4, 1967,” he said.
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