Israel's refusal to enter peace talks shows its unwillingness for peace, says Barghouthi 

Date: 24 / 06 / 2007 Time: 19:39

Ramallah - Ma'an - 

Former Palestinian information minister and head of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, has declared that the Israeli insistence on refusing to enter into Palestinian-Israeli negotiations in order to find a solution assures their unwillingness to have peace.

According to Barghouthi, Israel intends to limit its contacts with the Palestinians, and only with the Palestinian Authority. Israel intends to transform the PA into a purely functional authority that only concerns itself with social issues and not political ones, such as ending the Israeli occupation and removing the "Apartheid Wall", Barghouthi said.

He added that the fact that the Israeli authorities are refusing to release all the Palestinians' rightful tax monies means that they are trying to blackmail the Palestinian political position.

 

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