Senior Palestinian personality: ME waking up after 40 years of sleep

A senior Palestinian personality described the current Middle East uprisings as a wake up after forty years of seasonal sleep.

Nayef Hawatmeh, secretary general of the democratic front for the liberation of Palestine (general command) told Qudsna that the current ME uprisings was a new stage in the ME developments, adding that the long hiatus following the ME sleep was that dictatorial regimes had closed the path to their nations.

“The Arab nations were seeking a dignified, independent life as well as social justice in the past 40 years. The resistance has been in place since the coming to power pf Anwar Sada’at in Egypt to date,” Hawatmeh said.

Hawatmeh believed that the current ME uprisings would contribute to the Palestinian issues, namely the issue of independent state with al-Quds as its capital and return of refugees.

Hawatmeh then urged different Palestinian factions to unite on the basis of three landmark agreements, namely Cairo 2005, Gaza 2006 and Cairo 2009.

In the same regard, Hawatmeh described the Palestinian elections law as a source of internal discord and called for amendment of the law.

Asked about PA compromise talks with the Zionist regime, the Palestinian personality said his faction was against such talks from the very beginning, adding that the Oslo agreement proved to be a source of discord among the Palestinians.

The Palestinian personality to sum up said the regional uprisings were much similar to the Islamic revolution in Iran in that in both the nations came to the scene and the blood eventually prevailed over sword.