Jailed Tanzim leader and Fatah Central Committee member Marwan Barghouti urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian factions to lead a ‘popular resistance’ to stop Israeli’s settlement construction and ‘Judeaizing’ activities.

“I have always called for creatively combining negotiations with resistance and political, diplomatic and popular activism,” Barghouti was quoted by Israel Radio Saturday as telling Palestinian Al Hayat Al Jadida newspaper.
“I warned against relying exclusively on negotiations, but some were late to discover this,” he reportedly added.
In a message transmitted via his lawyer from the Israeli prison where he has been incarcerated for seven years, Barghouti claimed there was no Israeli peace partner.
Barghouti made similar remarks in October, when he warned that the circumstances that led to the second intifada still exist and called on the Palestinians to conduct a ‘peaceful resistance’ campaign.
At the time, the Tanzim leader said “whoever thinks it’s possible to make peace with the current Israeli government is being delusional.”
Abbas, meanwhile, accused Israel of holding secret negotiations with Hamas in Switzerland and claimed Beit-ul-Moqaddas was not interested in achieving peace.
In an interview with the BBC-Arabic on Thursday, the PA president criticized the Obama administration, saying that “Washington is not doing enough to pressure Israel to advance the peace process.”
Hamas senior official Mamhoud A-Zahar, however, denied that the group held talks with Israel in Geneva.
In an interview with London-based paper Asharq Alawsat, Zahar said Abbas’s words were “entirely different” from what happened in reality, explaining that Hamas asked to meet with Europeans officials, and not with Israeli delegates.
(Source: jpost.com)