Al-Hindi rejects two-state solution, says resistance only path for victory

 [ 21/08/2009 - 11:43 AM ]

NUSAIRAT, (PIC)--

Dr. Muhammed Al-Hindi, the prominent political leader of the Islamic Jihad, said on Thursday his Movement's rejection of the US-sponsored two-state solution, describing it as the most dangerous scenario to liquidate the Palestinian issue.

Hindi's remarks were made during a speech he delivered during a political forum in the Nusairat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip where he also asserted that the two-state solution pours in favor of the Zionist entity as it would compromise 80% of the Palestinian land in exchange for a demilitarized state on 20% of the occupied Palestinian land.

He said that such solution would finish off the Right of Return of millions of Palestinian refugees forced out of their homeland at gunpoint at the hands of armed Jewish gangs in 1948, and now living in refugee camps inside Palestine and in neighboring Arab countries.

In addition, Hindi explained that the US project would badly affect the Palestinian citizens who remained on the 1948-occupied lands as they would face the nightmare of being kicked out of their homes under the "exchange of land" scheme, warning that the project would give the Israelis the upper hand on the occupied city of Jerusalem and the holy Aqsa Mosque.

Moreover, Hindi warned media outlets not to use the term "two-wings of the country" referring to the West bank and Gaza Strip, asserting that Palestine isn't only the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, but it is, he underlined, the entire historic Palestine from Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River that tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens had sacrificed and still are sacrificing their souls and blood for.

"Palestine cannot be reduced to a piece of land in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip", underscored Hindi, emphasizing that the Palestinian resistance and the support of the Arab and Muslim peoples would foil that solution.

In this regard, Hindi called in the Ramallah-based PA to stop all forms of coordination and negotiations with the Israeli occupation after it reached a deadlock, warning that the "futile" peace process had scattered energies of the Palestinian people and vanished the dreams and sacrifices of the Palestinian revolution.

Furthermore, Hindi urged the PA to release all political detainees in its jails, saying he doesn’t buy the allegations that the ongoing arrest campaign in the West Bank was at the backdrop of Hamas-Fatah political disputes.

"Those arrest campaigns in the West Bank weren’t at the backdrop of Hamas-Fat'h rift, but they were indeed against the Palestinian resistance itself as evident with the arrest of Palestinian resistance fighters from the Islamic Jihad and from Fatah  who have nothing to do with the Hamas-Fatah quarrel", Hindi pointed out.

Finally, Hindi stressed that resistance was and still is the ideal path towards victory that would retrieve all usurped rights of the Palestinian people, and would protect the sacred places in Palestine.

General outlines of Obama's Peace Plan

Friday August 21, 2009 08:47 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

Palestinian Legislator, Hasan Khreisha, stated that he received a draft of the American Peace Plan which is still being formulated by U.S. President, Barack Obama, who intends to present the final plan next month, The Palestine News Network, reported.

Khreisha added that the draft is has been widely distributed among Palestinian and Arab leaders.

Obama and the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, recently discussed the plan during Mubarak’s visit to the White House.

Egyptian sources reported that, Suleiman Awwad, spokesperson of Mubarak, said that the U.S. Administration intends to officially announce the new plan during the opening session of the United Nations’ General Assembly next September.

According to Khreisha, the draft includes ten main points detailed as follows;

1.       International presence in the Jordan Valley, Palestinian Plaines area, and other areas in the West Bank.

2.       Annexing some part of East Jerusalem to remain under Israeli control, while Muslim holy site would be under Arab control.

3.       All Palestinian factions would be dissolved and transformed into political parties.

4.       Large settlement blocs in the West Bank would remain under Israeli control, while negotiations would be conducted within three months of the plan, to discuss the future of smaller settlements.

5.       Several areas in the West Bank would be disarmed, and Israeli would maintain aerial control.

6.       Intensifying the Palestinian-Israeli security coordination.

7.       The Palestinian Authority would not be allowed to have military alliances with regional countries.

8.       The United States would guarantee the establishment of a Palestinian State in the summer of 2000.

9.       Allowing an agreed upon number of refugees to return, and to be settled in the Plaines area and other areas in the West Bank, particularly in the cities of Ramallah and Nablus. A special fund for supporting the refugees would also be established.  

10.   Israel starts releasing the Palestinian political detainees immediately after the peace deal is signed. Three years would be allocated for the release of the detainees.

So far, it seems that there is no mention of borders, especially since Israel insists that West Bank borders remain in its hands, and several important issues such as water resources, trade with the rest of the world, the Annexation Wall, still need to be addressed.