{"id":39880,"date":"2019-06-26T07:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T07:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39880"},"modified":"2019-06-26T07:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T07:22:35","slug":"egypt-militant-returned-from-libya-back-on-trial-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39880","title":{"rendered":"Egypt militant returned from Libya back on trial: media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nAMMAN: Palestinian officials, activists and the public at large stood unusually united on Tuesday in their opposition to the US-led, economic-based Israeli-Palestinian peace effort. They launched a wide-ranging public and media blitz in protest against the start of the two-day Peace to Prosperity economic workshop in Bahrain.<\/p>\n

\nPalestinian government spokesman Ibrahim Milhem told Arab News that watching Jared Kushner make his opening speech at the workshop about the so-called \u201cDeal of the Century\u201d reminded him of the financial machinations of Wall Street.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cI saw a salesman trying to push a particular product, talking about numbers and opportunities without the slightest interest in the fact that he was talking about our lives and our situation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\nMilhem and other Palestinian officials talked to a number of media outlets in an attempt to counter the US narrative. President Mahmoud Abbas, who presides over a divided authority that is in perpetual financial crisis and depends on donor nations, invited members of the Foreign Press Association to his Ramallah headquarters. \u201cWe need the money and, really, we need assistance,\u201d he told them. \u201cBut before everything, there is a political solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nPrime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh appeared on the Christiane Amanpour program on CNN International and wrote a column for the Washington Post headlined \u201cPalestinians want freedom not Trump administration bribes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nAfter Kushner\u2019s speech, political analyst Lamis Andoni said that Palestinians are being asked to accept that if the prison conditions under which they live are to improve, the occupation
will continue. The US proposal is designed to silence Palestinians by giving them enough to survive, while giving a minority the chance to get rich, he said. \u201cIt didn\u2019t work before and will not work now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\nHusam Zulmot, head of the Palestine mission in the UK and former head of the Washington DC mission, said: \u201cPalestine is not for sale.\u201d He described Kushner\u2019s plan as \u201cdeceptive\u201d and \u201cdisingenuous,\u201d arguing that it does not address the core issue: the occupation.<\/p>\n

\nIn Nablus, the deputy head of Fatah, Mahmoud Aloul, issued a stern warning to Arab participants in the Bahrain workshop: \u201cWe tell our brothers that they have stabbed us in the back and your intervention in our cause has gone overboard and we will not allow that.\u201d He qualified this by adding: \u201cThe US and Israel will continue to be our enemy but we will not consider you enemies; we will leave you to your own people and hope that your hibernation will not last long.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe Palestinian Al Quds daily newspaper ran the front page headline \u201cOpposition to the Deal of the Century hold protests throughout the homeland and the diaspora,\u201d with a photo of the demonstrations in Ramallah covering the rest of the front page. It also published a two-page supplement quoting politicians from a number of movements, including Fatah and Hamas, along with analysts and pundits, all criticizing the Manama workshop.<\/p>\n

\nHani Elmasri, the head of the Masarat think tank in Ramallah. wrote an article in which he said that the \u201cTrump deal will not succeed without a Palestinian cover, and will fail sooner or later, but while the plan has not succeed in liquidating Palestinian nationalism it has succeeded in stressing the facts of the occupation and made the possibility of a Palestinian struggle much more difficult. This means that it is not enough for Palestinians to reject this plan but they need to respond with a holistic strategy that must be political, economic and has to be a struggle by the people on all levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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