Imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti said Sunday that mass popular
protests should be held to force political leaders from his party and
Hamas to reconcile.
In an interview from his cell, distributed by
his political office, Barghouti called for a "Palestinian spring" to
end the five-year division into separate West Bank and Gaza governments.
"Youth
of all persuasions in the West Bank, Gaza, and Diaspora should hold
sit-ins in front of party headquarters until the split is ended," he
said.
Barghouti was a signatory of the 2006 "Prisoners Document"
-- in which jailed faction leaders set out a joint program for national
independence.
The Fatah leader on Sunday said another such
initiative was not what is needed, but rather political will to
reconcile. However, he said there were ongoing talks among prisoners
over possible steps, including an open hunger strike for reconciliation.
"Neither
history, nor the people, nor martyrs, or prisoners of any party, will
forgive any leader who puts obstacles in the way of national
reconciliation," Barghouti said.
He insisted that the Palestinian
Authority should not be folded in light of the absence of negotiations,
but rather redefine its political program to ensure it is fully in the
national interest, not to protect Israel and its settlement enterprise.
Barghouthi,
convicted by an Israeli court for masterminding the second Palestinian
uprising in 2000, was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council
while serving five consecutive life terms, and was touted as a
presidential candidate in 2005.
Ma'an News
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Israel's Violence on Palestenians
Right to Defend itself
Israel has always cried 'holocaust' tears to the world while singing the old tune of "Defending itself and its citizens".
How do they do it? By banning or killing international journalists by bribing their supportive governments.
Palestine is destroyed as a State so is Gaza. Meanwhile the "chronically suffering Israel" has developed to a point it does not need Uncle Sam anymore, see their infrastructure, see their military development up to nuclear programs... and they are the eternal "poor" in need.
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