The protests, scheduled for June 25 and 26, will coincide with the launching of the US-led economic workshop in Bahrain.
The Palestinians said on Sunday that they are planning a “popular uprising” later this month to protest US President Donald Trump’s upcoming plan for peace in the Middle East.
The protests, scheduled for June 25 and 26, will coincide with the launching of the US-led economic workshop in Bahrain – where the US administration plans to unveil the economic portion of its long-awaited plan.
The Palestinian Authority leadership has called on Palestinians and Arabs to boycott the Bahrain conference.
Representatives of PLO factions, Palestinian civil society organizations and independent Palestinian personalities called on all Palestinians to participate in the protests against Trump’s peace plan and the Bahrain conference.
They issued the call after a meeting in el-Bireh, the twin city of Ramallah.
Wasel Abu Yusef, member of the PLO Executive Committee, said that Sunday’s meeting was the first in a series of gatherings to arrange “popular activities to confront American-Israeli schemes aimed at eliminating the rights of the Palestinian people.”
The Palestinians, he said, need to engage in “struggling action to foil the ‘Deal of the Century’ and its economic aspect, and voice their rejection of all American policies.”
Abu Yusef pointed out that the Palestinians were in agreement about boycotting the Bahrain workshop and urging Arabs to follow suit, “because the rights of the Palestinian people can’t be traded for money.”
The planned protests will take place at “friction points” and not inside Palestinian cities, he added, implying that Palestinians should protest at IDF checkpoints.
The protests will be coordinated with Arab-Israeli leaders and Palestinians living in refugee camps and communities around the world, the PLO official said.
Tayseer Khaled, another senior PLO official, said it was time for the Palestinians to “change the rules of engagement with the policy of the US administration and the Israeli government.”
Khaled called for a “comprehensive national revolt” against Israel.
“The political options the Palestinians are facing have become clearer than ever,” he added. “The big changes in the policy of the US administration and its unprecedented and unlimited support for Israel’s hostile settlement policy and absolute denial of the national rights of the Palestinian people, require us to change the rules of engagement with the policies of the US administration and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.”
These “solutions” to Israel’s Palestinian “problem” help us to let off steam but of course they are not realistic. If Israel actually attempted to do this, their would immediately be all-out war with all the Arab and Muslim powers, and the great powers would support the Arabs and Muslims against us. That would probably be the end of Israel. Everyone outside Israel except some fervent Zionists like ourselves would consider Israel’s actions to be “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity.”
However, I think that Israel could simply refuse to provide more electricity or water to the Palestinians until they paid their bills.The Europeans and the Russians would complain indignantly about this. But it would be hard to justify harsh sanctions against a country merely for insisting that their creditors pay their bills.
Without electricity or water, Hamas and the PLO’s rule might collapse . Many Palestinians might leave for greener pastures. The Europeans and /or some of th egulf states might have paid the Palestinians’ bills. But I think they are too stingy. And even if there were no other consequences for the Palestinian regimes, they will be humiliated and their authority undermined.
@ David melech:
The Britsh acted like a Government of Occupation, but were only by LAW ..Trustees for the Owners of the Land…. the Jewish People. It is because of the British, who closed the doors of Palestine during the Holocaust, to whom we owe the slaughter of millions of innocent, good, pious Jews.
If the Pals start another intifada which if this article is accurate it sounds like they might if there is enough interest on the Arab street it is time Israel starts the reversal of Olso. Destroy all the terrorists who fight. Jail anyone who assists them. Proclaim the PA and PLO illegal. Seize all their assets.
Allow peaceful Gazans and Pal-Arabs in Judea/Samaria to emigrate immediately.
Apply Israeli Law to all of Area C as a starter.
A misconception arises that the Trump plan as expressed in these economic meetings is against the national rights of the “Palestinians”. It is the opposite.
This is focused on the methods of Trump.
In fact there is not IN ESSENCE any difference between Trump and Sanders.
The Israeli bourgeois types, who lead Israel, and as an example is Adam on this site, engage in attacks on religious Jews, as a horrific diversion. The endless discussion on this issue of religious Jews shows he has a fetish about this.
But the real enemy is the American Imperialist ruling class, and Trump and Sanders are the same towards the Jews.
The enemy IS the “Palestinians”. That is being hidden by Trump.
But apart from Martin Sherman, now and again when he is not diverted, you would not think that by looking at the Israeli ruling elites.
Here’s my financial solution, give every non Jewish Arab in J S, gaza one way bus ticket from Israel to egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lesbanon boundry + 50nis for bus station snack. Have a peres, sharon or rabin cohort thank them for their illegal occupation and inform them that any land property they thought they owned would be forfeit for unpaid tax bills etc.
Anything the brits signed registered for them has no standing as the brit were a government of occupation .