Mallouh the Deputy Secretary-General of the PFLP vests the campaign. (27/8/2007) 

 

Abed al-Raheem Mallouh the PLO executive committee member and the Deputy Secretary-General of the PFLP visited the campaign to Free Barghouti. The visit came in response to an invitation by the campaign to discuss with him ways to develop the work of the campaign and its activities.

 

Mallouh expressed his views on the issue of Palestinian prisoners to members of the campaign secretariat, activists and volunteers. He explained that there was negligence over previous years either by the Palestinian Authority or the PLO as happened in the Oslo agreement, which left the issue to the Israeli “goodwill".

 

Elsewhere, Malluh pointed out that he fully agreed with the analyses of Marwan Barghouti  of the  Palestinian situation as an expression of three crises: the first is the crisis of the Fatah movement, indicating that Barghouti believes that the rigidity of the movement  due to not holding the Sixth General Conference and accommodate changes and new requirements within the movement. Barghouti believes that as a result of the large handicapped access barriers the movement should do a deep reform and injecting new blood to the movement,  development and formulation of proper mechanisms for access to the Sixth General Conference of the movement as soon as possible.

 

The second crisis is the internal crisis Malluh explained, he said that the prisoners document were designed to prevent the deterioration, but after it happened there is nothing left to talk about, warning that the internal Palestinian division will not find a way out over several months, as some believe, there are real risks surrounding the Palestinian national project and the Palestinian political entity.

 

Malluh added "But it is the duty of everyone to work hard in order to spare our people the scourge of the division as much as possible, pointing out that there are many issues such as education, health, justice could continue to work it doesn’t mean that we are accepting the situation of existing division."

 

The third crisis, said Malluh that to achieve the Palestinian national project and the elimination of the occupation has been and remains the main goal of the Palestinian struggle, and it was suggested that a lasting political forum at the headquarters of the popular campaign entitled "problems and solutions" to be inclusive of all titles and supporter of the role of the prisoners movement.

 

His audience supported the idea of establishing a lasting political forum aims to diagnose problems and the search for solutions. Speakers stressed that the presence of the leading symbol like Abdul Rahim Malluh who enjoys considerable wisdom, poise and experience will greatly contribute to developing the performance of the campaign and to develop appropriate mechanisms to serve the cause of Palestinian prisoners as part of the general Palestinian cause.

 

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