Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–(PFLP) Obama speech another attempt to deceive Palestinians into futile “peace process”

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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said on May 19, 2011, commenting on the speech of United States President Barack Obama, that the Obama speech lacked any form of meaningful change or objectivity in relation to US policy, and served as yet more attempted justification for the occupation and its crimes against the Palestinian people. Said the Front, it is clear that any claims that the United States upholds “values of freedom, democracy and justice” are belied by the fact that those values instantly evaporate in the case of Palestine and its people. Furthermore, said the Front, the Arab youth movement will not trade their dignity, freedom and democracy for U.S. dollars and wars.

In a press statement, the Front said that it is clear that the U.S. position remains – as always – in imperial alliance with its strategic partner, Zionism, completely ignoring the legitimate demands of the Palestinian people, international law and U.N. resolutions. It is clear, the Front said, that the U.S. adopts the positions of Netanyahu and his settler regime, in alliance to deprive the Palestinian people of its inalienable national rights to independence and self-determination, demanding that Palestinians participate in a U.S. negotiations regime that has no capacity for providing rights or freedom for Palestine and its people. The United States has failed in its attempts to impose its political demands upon Arab and Muslim peoples, and is completely inappropriate and incapable of sponsoring any political settlement that leads to justice or peace in the region.

The Front noted that the U.S. president once again demanded the reactivation of the so-called “peace process” based on bilateral negotiations under the auspices of the U.S., outside the reference of international law and UN resolutions, reflects the fact that the U.S. is simply once again attempting to deceive the Palestinian, Arab and international public opinion while the occupation continues its siege, aggression, settlement as “facts on the ground” against the Palestinian and Arab people. The occupation continues to flagrantly violate international humanitarian and human rights law and the Fourth Geneva Convention to prevent the Palestinian people from exercising our rights to self-determination and national sovereignty over our land, and achieving our rights to freedom, self-determination and return.

The PFLP concluded by calling upon all Palestinian political and social forces to act together in unity to reject any such proposals and instead reactivate the power of the Palestinian national movement, through a rebuilt and democratic Palestine Liberation Organization that can represent the highest reference for our people wherever they are, with a clear vision for national resistance and victory.