24 January 2002
Press Release Ramallah: Commenting on statements by Qatar's foreign minister in the United States yesterday, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine stated that these are expressions of the decline into which the official Arab regimes have fallen. After the events of 11 September they have yielded to American dictates. The Popular Front stated that the words uttered by Qatar's foreign minister encourage Zionist aggression and American pressure on the Palestinian people, and they constitute an indication of what kind of resolutions the upcoming Arab summit may issue as regards the Arab and Palestinian struggle with the Zionists. The statement by the Popular Front noted that the deteriorated and divided condition of the official Arab regimes today, requires that the Arab people stand up to resist this condition. It called on the Arab peoples and their political parties and trade unions to move quickly to put a stop to such destructive moral collapse. The statement also called for the convening of an Arab People's Congress, parallel with the session of the Arab summit, that would affirm the Arab nation's resistance to Zionist-American aggression against their land and the dignity of their peoples. Press Office Palestine 24 January 2002. **** 24 January 2002 Press Release Comrade Jamil al-Majdalawi, member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has made the following statement After many comments in the press and elsewhere have been made regarding the alleged "declaration" attributed to the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades issued on 23 January 2002, I wish to affirm the following: 1. All of the Front's authorities have confirmed that none of them have issued the above-mentioned "declaration," and that they reject the expressions, denunciations of some people as "traitors," and other epithets contained in the document, all of which are alien to the Popular Front and its political rhetoric and language. 2. We advocate and work for assuring, strengthening, and reinforcing Palestinian national unity so that we can all confront the Israeli aggression of the criminal Sharon government against our people and holy places. 3. The continuing detention of Comrade General Secretary Ahmad Saadat, to the extent that it inflicts great damage on Palestinian national unity and relations, gives an opportunity to the enemies of our people, to the frustrated seekers of revenge, and to anyone who wants to fish in troubled waters to cause still more harm to our unity and to the cohesion of our people's ranks. It allows them to spread discord in the ranks of the people and their militant forces. For this reason we have turned and we are turning to everyone, and in particular to Brother President Abu Ammar (Yasir Arafat) that he may issue his order immediately freeing Comrade Ahmad Saadat, so that we might together and irrevocably close the gates of evil and block the way to all such miserable attempts at sowing discord. Jamil al-Majdalawi _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
