Official: Abbas Under Immense Pressure From Arabs to Talk to U.S.

Date: 20 September 2020 - 21:52

News ID: ۸۲۹۹۶

WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused to negotiate with the U.S. although he was under pressure from Arab regimes, a Fatah movement official said Sunday, Anadolu reports.
"President Abbas is facing unprecedented pressure from Arabs and the international sphere to negotiate with the U.S. administration and take the customs revenues cut by Israel, but he does not accept it,” Mahmoud Al-Aloul, deputy chief of Fatah told the official Palestinian television channel H.
He said everyone knows that the Zionist regime tried to liquidate the Palestine cause but Palestinians choose to stand up against the oppression.
The Palestinian Authority will never return to its previous situation and stopped coordinating with the Zionist regime, he said.
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed U.S.-sponsored agreements Sept. 15 to establish diplomatic relations with the Zionist regime.
The Palestinian Authority and resistance factions denounced the deals, saying they did not serve the Palestinian cause and ignore the rights of Palestinians.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian movement Fatah says it does not rule out the United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s efforts to replace Palestinian Authority (PA), Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas with dismissed Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan.
Head of Fatah’s Organizations and Mobilization Commission Munir Al-Jaghoub stated: "The UAE must stop interfering in Palestinian affairs after its U.S.-brokered normalization with the Israeli occupation.”
Al-Jaghoub affirmed: "Since its creation, the PA has an election system and there are bases for nomination. Therefore, there is no American guardianship over the Palestinian people or their leadership.”
The Fatah official pointed to the conference held by the secretaries-general of the Palestinian factions earlier this month and explained that they renewed the legitimacy of the PLO, noting: "This annoyed the U.S.”
He also indicated that the U.S. administration has been attacking the Palestinian factions and the Palestinian constants for three years.
U.S. Ambassador to the occupied territories, David Friedman, openly admitted that Washington interferes in other countries’ domestic affairs, by saying that on Friday that America is considering replacing Mahmoud Abbas with Fatah’s dismissed leader, Mohammed Dahlan.
Friedman made the comments in an interview with Israel Today, which is known to be close to the Zionist regime’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
When asked whether the U.S. administration is considering nominating Dahlan, who currently lives in the UAE, as the new Palestinian leader, Friedman replied: "We are thinking about it.”
The newspaper pointed out that according to reports, the United States may support Dahlan in order to remove Abbas.