[ 03/07/2009 - 11:10 PM ]

WASHINGTON, (PIC)--

Farooq Al-Qaddoumi, head of the PLO political department and a prominent Fatah leader, said that Hamas's military action two years ago against the mutiny trend in Fat'h was a victory against the corrupt PA security apparatuses that cooperated with the Israeli occupation.

In an interview with the Washington-based  "Watan" newspaper, Qaddoumi pointed out that the sincere people in Fat'h faction didn’t object to Hamas's military takeover in the Gaza Strip because they knew it was for the good of the Palestinian People there.

He also accused  the defunct preventive security apparatus, which was under the command of the disgraced Fat'h leader Mohammed Dahlan, of liquidating Fat'h leader Moussa Arafat, kidnapping his son Manhal, and killing of Khalil Al-Zain, the secretary of Fat'h supreme central committee in Khan Younis district.

Qaddoumi further stressed that all the conferences held by the PLO's executive committee, Fat'h's central committee, Fat'h's revolutionary council, and the PLO's central council were illegitimate because they were held under the Israeli occupation inside Palestine.

"If Fat'h indeed considers itself as a liberation movement, then it has no right to hold its sixth conference in a place under the Israeli occupation, otherwise the nature of the movement as a liberation group and as a representative of the Palestinian people would no longer be applicable" Qaddomi underscored.

In this regard, Qaddoumi stressed the right of return of all Palestinian refugees to their homes in Palestine, tagging such constant as prerequisite to build the independent Palestinian state, and not to confine the Palestinian issue to the West Bank and Gaza Strip only.

He also called on his Fat'h colleagues to implement the recommendation of the faction's central committee of searching for an Arab country that could host the Movement's sixth conference.

"Our cadres in Gaza Strip decided not to participate in the proposed conference of the Movement in Bethlehem city if any of them was denied attendance or replaced by an alternative, which would deem the conference as an exclusive conference for the Oslo group that sooner or later would fall and be isolated from the Palestinian community", the veteran Fatah political leader emphasized.

Moreover, Qaddoumi condemned the PA practices against Palestinian resistance fractions in the West Bank, accusing the PA security apparatuses in the West Bank of implementing the agenda of US military officer in the West Bank Keith Dayton.

"The charter of Fat'h and the PLO clearly stipulate that the armed struggle was the only way to liberate Palestine, and that right was sanctioned by the UN charter and all international laws and conventions", Qaddomi elaborated.

He also explained that political disputes were something natural among resistance factions as long as they coordinated with each other for the supreme national interest.

In the early nineties of the past century, the PLO dropped many articles in its charter to satisfy the USA and Israel after the signing of the ill-fated Oslo accords in 1993.