It will also be held on Saturday (May 27, 2023). European Palestinians Conference In its twentieth session in Malmö, Sweden, where about 15-20 thousand participants are expected to attend, in the largest regular annual gathering of European Palestinians over the past twenty years; To affirm the Palestinian constants, chief among them the right of return of the refugees to their lands and homes from which they were expelled.
The National Forum:
For two days, the National Forum discussed the “national strategy for preserving the Palestinian constants”, which was put by the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad in the hands of the participants. In a civilized atmosphere of serious and responsible discussion, dozens participated with their interventions, criticisms, and suggestions. The elements of strength and weakness of the Palestinian situation were analyzed, and the strategic vision calling for confronting the Zionist occupation, escalating resistance, achieving effective national partnerships, and integrating roles between the arenas of Palestinian existence at home and abroad, was discussed. In a way that strengthens his unity, and in a way that enables him to mobilize his energies in the battle for liberation; With the endeavor to develop a system of effective Palestinian relations on the Arab, Islamic and international levels.
The strategic vision called for strengthening the capacities and capabilities of the Palestinian people, supporting their resistance, consecrating the centrality of Jerusalem, insisting on the right of return, building an effective internal Palestinian front, arranging the Palestinian home, and rebuilding and activating the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The strategic vision called for strengthening the capacities and capabilities of the Palestinian people, supporting their resistance, consecrating the centrality of Jerusalem, insisting on the right of return, building an effective internal Palestinian front, arranging the Palestinian home, and rebuilding and activating the Palestine Liberation Organization. It called for advancing Palestinian work abroad and in the occupied territories of 1948, paying attention to liberating prisoners, breaking the siege on the Gaza Strip, pushing for more efforts to isolate the Zionist entity, and criminalizing its occupation and its symbols in the legal framework and in the international environment.
This vision, which was agreed upon by the conferees after extensive discussion, and after introducing a number of amendments and improvements, constitutes an important ground for national action and the revival of the Palestinian situation. It also constitutes an important meeting base for all who wish to join and partner to serve the Palestinian national project.
European Palestinians Conference:
This conference is considered one of the most important and beautiful Palestinian national “weddings” abroad. Over the course of twenty years, he managed to attract about 10-20 thousand Palestinians annually, who meet in one day and in one place from all over Europe; Where grandparents, fathers, and grandchildren gather, and pledge to love Palestine and return to it, and to abide by the constants and not to give up their full rights in their blessed land, all in a national atmosphere that accommodates all Palestinian currents and segments, accompanied by speeches, cultural lectures, heritage programmes, costumes, songs and popular foods, in A national “wedding” with distinction, the least of its global counterpart.
What is remarkable this year is the attack launched by the leadership of the PA, the PLO, and Fatah leaders against this conference, which is unjustified, lacks credibility, and is full of fabrications and deception. Just because he is independent of her and does not work under her tutelage, noting that this is already an essential element in his success.
What is remarkable this year is the attack launched by the leadership of the PA, the PLO, and Fatah leaders against this conference, which is unjustified, lacks credibility, and is full of fabrications and deception. Just because he is independent of her and does not work under her tutelage, noting that this is already an essential element in his success.
Following its meeting on May 4, 2023, the leadership of the Executive Committee of the PLO issued a statement I refused the conference; It falsely accused him of calling for division, “and suggesting the creation of imaginary and unacceptable alternatives in light of the tampering with the Palestinian situation.”
Rawhi Fattouh, head of the Palestinian National Council and Fatah leader, warned against the participation of any of the Council’s members in the conference, and threatened to drop his membership, considering the conference “a suspicious invitation and far from Palestinian legitimacy”!! As for Hussein Al-Sheikh, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Organization and a member of Fatah Central (and responsible for coordination with the occupation), he warned against participating in the conference, and claimed that it aims to strike at the unity of representation of the Palestinian people through the PLO, while Sabri Saidam, Secretary of Fatah Central, claimed that the conference The Palestinians of Europe come within the “liquidation schemes of the PLO.”
Ahmed Majdalani, a member of the Executive Committee of the Liberation Organization and secretary of the Palestinian Struggle Front (which is compatible with Fatah in its program), claimed that the conference was passing “suspicious” agendas, and that it was a “poisonous” attempt to split the Palestinian communities; While Anwar Abd al-Hadi, director of the Arab Relations Department in the organization, escalated the attack on the conference and delved into his imagination, to the point of accusing the conference of “serving Zionist agendas, and that the Mossad is the one who funds the conference”!!
Among those who attacked the conference were Faisal Aranki, head of the expatriate affairs department in the organization, who is affiliated with the Democratic Front, and Osama Qawasmi, head of the expatriate and expatriate committee in the National Council, and others.
This limited article does not have the capacity to respond in detail to all the allegations and fabrications made by the opponents of the conference, including leaders in the PA, the PLO, and Fatah, but we will try to put some points on the letters as follows:
1- This conference, throughout its history, is a national “wedding” that brings together all the Palestinian people in Europe. It did not happen that the legitimacy of the PLO was rejected or called for the formation of an alternative organization. Rather, ambassadors and representatives of the authority participated in it. However, his platforms expressed the true pulse of the Palestinian people at home and abroad, in the necessity of reforming the PLO, activating its institutions, and absorbing all Palestinians; Which is hardly different from the two. So why the campaign of distortion and slander from leaders who are supposed to possess a minimum level of credibility and self-respect?!
If there is anyone who has weakened and weakens the PLO, it is its current leadership that has dominated it for decades, under whose shadow the organization’s institutions collapsed and lost its effectiveness, and the organization turned into a tool of the Palestinian Authority, and was placed in the recovery room to be used only to put stamps on its behavior and procedures. its leadership decisions; It is this leadership that stands as a stumbling block in the face of reforming the organization, in the face of the entry of large and effective Palestinian forces into its membership, and in the face of any fair and transparent elections for the Palestinian people.
2- If there is someone who has weakened and weakens the Palestine Liberation Organization, it is its current leadership that has dominated it for decades, under whose shadow the organization’s institutions collapsed and lost their effectiveness, and the organization turned into a tool of the Palestinian Authority, and it was placed in the recovery room to be used only to put seals on the conduct, actions and decisions of its leadership; It is this leadership that stands as a stumbling block in the way of reforming the organization, and in the face of the entry of large and effective Palestinian forces into its membership, and in the face of any fair and transparent elections for the Palestinian people, and it is the one that ignores the Palestinians abroad and their communities, and does not care about their concerns and aspirations!!
3- If the leadership of the organization and the authority are really keen on national action in Europe and abroad, then please, specifically the officials of the refugee affairs department in the organization and the expatriate department in the authority, submit a report on its achievements in serving the Palestinians abroad, and we know and they know the extent of the misery that their departments and institutions suffer from. . There is a simple challenge for them to reveal their annual budget to support work among refugees and Palestinians abroad (more than seven million Palestinians), in exchange for the budget of the office of the President of the Authority, for example, or the budgets of the security forces coordinated with the occupation.
4- The leaders of the Palestinian Authority, the PLO, and Fatah warned of suspicious and poisonous agendas for the conference, of splitting the Palestinian ranks, and striking the PLO!! We wonder if this national conference adhering to the constants and defending the right of return, which pumps the national spirit and raises the morale of the Palestinians in Europe and links them to Jerusalem and Palestine .. has such agendas!! Is what the leaders of the organization and the authority are doing in terms of giving up most of Palestine, security coordination with the occupation, chasing the resistance and its heroes, participating in the Aqaba and Sharm al-Sheikh conferences, enjoying VIP cards provided by the enemy, and “kidnapping” the leadership of the organization against its will? About the will of the Palestinian people, all of this is the description of the “national action” that they want?!
If your house is made of glass, do not throw stones at people, and if you are unable to work or do not want to work, then you should widen the way for those who wish to do so, and you should at least have “silence” so that everyone can see the misery of your performance.
5- And to those who dared to slander by accusing the conference of Zionist agendas and of being funded by the Mossad!! We say to them: This is shame, ignorance and regret that no Palestinian official should fall into. It is disrespectful to the minds of the Palestinians in Europe and the Palestinians in general. The Israeli entity is chasing after the conference and seeking to distort it and prevent it from working with all its energy. Unfortunately, this is in line with the agenda of the leaders of the PA and the organization who are indignant at the conference. It is really unfortunate that the Palestinian embassy in Sweden, along with the Israeli ambassador there, attacked the conference.
We say to those disaffected: If your house is made of glass, do not throw stones at people, and if you are unable to work or do not want to work, then you should widen the way for those who wish to do so, and you should have at least “silence” so that everyone can see the misery of your performance.
Finally, we congratulate the Popular Conference of Palestinians Abroad and the Conference of Palestinians in Europe for their efforts and achievements, and we look forward to more in serving our people, our cause, and our nation on the road to liberation and return.
Source: عربي21 by arabi21.com.
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