Annapolis confab took aim at roots of resistance

 Hussein Rooyvaran, expert in Middle East affairs, marked Sunday the anniversary of the first Palestinian Intifada, saying that the first Intifada turned the page Palestinian history as Israel earlier was refusing to acknowledge the Palestinian entity.

He made the remarks to a conference in Tehran on challenges facing the Middle East process especially after the Annapolis confab in the United States.
 
"Palestinian people by choosing Hamas showed they consider resistance as the most efficient option to run the Palestinian issue," the analyst said, adding "for the same reason, the Annapolis meeting took aim at resistance and its tracks in Lebanon, Syria and Iran."

"The Annapolis conference was not aimed to resolve the Palestinian problem and instead was designed to attend to the strategic needs of the compromising Arab side which was assigned to counter resistance," he added.

Also a senior official in the pro-Palestinian NGO of the Society in Defense of the Palestinian Nation (SDPN), Rooyvaran believed that the Annapolis confab was also designed to repress the internal Palestinian protests.
 
"The defeat of Israel against the Lebanese Hezbollah ruined all American projects in the region," the analyst said.

Rooyvaran believed that after the Annapolis meeting, America's Great Middle East project will be replaced by a project to forge alliance among the so-called moderate forces in the Middle East against resistance and its staunchest advocate, Iran.
 
The one day conference on ME peace process was co-held in Tehran Sunday by the Qods News Agency and the Islamic Azad University.
 
It received a warm welcome from experts and analysts in Middle East issues from home and abroad.
 
Secretary General of Iran-based Society in Defense of Palestinian Nation (SDPN), Mojtaba Rahmandoust and the secretary-general of the International conference for the Support of the Palestinian Resistance and Intifada, Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pour delivered speeches in the conference.
 
Adel Aoun, representative of the Lebanese Amal movement and Abu Osama al-Mo'ti, representative of the Gaza-based Palestinian government (Hamas) are also among the guests of the conference.