Qaddoumi castigates Abbas, describes him as authoritarian

[ 21/08/2007 - 03:55 PM ]

BEIRUT, (PIC)--

Farouq Al-Qaddoumi, the head of the PLO's political department and a Fateh leader, has castigated the PA chief Mahmoud Abbas, describing him as "authoritarian" and announced his rejection of Abbas and his team's attempts to disarm the Palestinian resistance.

"I do not agree with Abbas when I hear that he wants to disarm the resistance or the resistance factions", Al-Qaddoumi opined in an interview in Cairo with the Beirut-based "Al-Kifah Al-Arabi" newspaper, confirming that if Fateh strongly returned to the armed struggle, it would restore its vitality and spirit.

Al-Qaddoumi also described Abbas's negotiation with Olmert as an attempt to cover his failure and as the main cause of the Palestinian people's outrage over the PA.

The Fateh leader admitted that the Oslo agreement generated a class from Fateh having interests with the "Zionist entity" and adopting negotiations as a principle despite the negotiations' lack of seriousness.

He added that Abbas is atop of this class, which seeks to preserve its interests with the Zionists, because he was the first to call for demilitarization of the intifada.

Regarding the administrative and security corruption before the last events of Gaza, he stated that there were a group of people in Fateh that spent funds collected from taxes without accountability in light of the then chaos and lack of financial control; as to the preventive security, he pointed out that many of its elements joined Fateh without abiding by its principles.

He finally opined that the reform within Fateh starts with a consensus on a political program of action as well as on restructuring it on national basis because the Oslo agreement confused the Fateh movement and brought in disagreements.

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