Leftists hold rallies across West Bank rejecting negotiations

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    Leftist Palestinian parties on Saturday held demonstrations across the West Bank in opposition to negotiations with Israel and US Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework proposal that will serve as the basis for future negotiations.

    Leftist rallies in Hebron and in Nablus brought hundreds to the street to reject the negotiations proposals from the US leader, which they claimed were intended to “liquidate the question of Palestine and prolong the Israeli occupation.” (...)

    Member of the central committee of the Palestinian People’s Party Fahmi Shahin delivered a speech during the rally, calling upon the Palestinian Authority to “immediately stop peace negotiations and to reject the US sponsorship to these talks.” (...)

    Shahin urged the Palestinian Authority to reject any move to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and called upon them to demand the implementation of the Palestinian refugees’ right of return to the villages from which they were expelled in 1948. (...)

    Participants stressed that the agreement represents a blow to the Palestinian national consensus, as it comes not from international guidance but under US supervision, and is being brought forward without a halt to Israeli settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land.

    Member of the political bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ramzi Rabah said that Kerry’s repeated visits to the region have served as a way to give Israel more time to continue settlement activities, in the process imposing a new status quo that is destroying the possibility of an independent Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem.

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