The general secretary of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), Nayef Hawatmeh, said the emerging crisis between two institutions, the presidential office and the Hamas government, with its grave consequences, is the first bitter and poisonous fruit of the duality of speeches and programs; something that was also evidenced in the opening of the meeting of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Assuredly, the cause of this crisis is due to the absence of a national program of common denominators.

Hawatmeh also said in his statement to the press, made this past April 25, “the retrenchment of some people behind their own programs arising from limited sectarian interests resulted in the lost opportunity to build a broad national coalition government based on a common program with a joint strategy.”

Hawatmeh pointed out that to overcome the crisis in which the Palestinians find themselves, comprehensive national solutions are required, as is a movement toward serious, responsible and fruitful dialogue which puts the national interest above the interests of limited sectarian elements. Likewise, there is a need to avoid being dragged into destructive secondary confrontations, which occupying Israeli forces take advantage of by continuing to steal our lands and deny us our rights.

“We call upon President Mahmoud Abbas, the sisters and brothers of the Hamas Movement, and national and democratic organizations to reinitiate the dialogue and to complete what we had begun March 17, 2005 at the internal meeting in Cairo. This would have the purpose of looking for mechanisms to implement resolutions approved there: to apply the agreement of common denominators, a government of national unity, rather than the governments of a single hue; to reconstruct the institutions of the PLO on the bases of democracy and coalition; and carry out elections so that the 64 percent of our people who live in concentration camps and in the diaspora can be empowered to choose their representatives in a united National Palestinian Council.”

He added, “We call upon the Palestinian president to quickly take the initiative and to convene a meeting of the Supreme National Committee so that that committee executes the resolutions of the meeting carried out in Cairo.”

The general secretary of the DFLP, warned that increasing internal clashes only open the way to the infernal discord desired by Israel, which is robbing the Palestinians of two-thirds of our territory though the construction of its walls of racist separation in Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and the West Bank. In addition, the Zionist state continues the judaization of the sacred city and is attempting to transform the rest of the territories into political-administrative districts.

Concluding his statement, Hawatmeh appealed for self-control, the moving away from division and confrontation, and also called for the assumption of responsibilities before the people