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<big><big><big><b>Statement: Palestinians in
Shatat Say NO to Resumption of Negotiations: Sign On</b></big></big></big>
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<p><em
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The
following statement
was initiated by Palestinian activists in North
America:</em></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>SIGN
ON:
Email <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:NoToNegotiations@gmail.com"
target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:NoToNegotiations@gmail.com">NoToNegotiations@gmail.<wbr>com</a> or
use
the form: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bit.ly/NoToNegotiations" target="_blank"
data-mce-href="http://bit.ly/NoToNegotiations">http://bit.ly/<wbr>NoToNegotiations</a></b></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">We,
the undersigned
Palestinians and Palestinian organizations in shatat and
exile, write today to express our firm opposition to the
resumption of bilateral Israeli/Palestinian negotiations
under U.S. auspices in Washington DC, today, July 29.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">For
twenty years, the
negotiations have not served Palestinian interests. Through
countless sessions of futile negotiations, Israeli
settlement construction has escalated, thousands of
Palestinian political prisoners are held behind bars and
Palestinian rights - including Palestinian refugees' right
to return - are no closer to implementation. While the
Netanyahu government is planning the massive dispossession
of Palestinians in the Naqab via the Prawer Plan, the
negotiations serve only to provide a thin veneer of
legitimacy to the aggressive policies of Israeli occupation
and apartheid.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Our
rights - the rights
of the Palestinian people - and our land - the entire land
of Palestine - are not for sale or bartering at the
negotiations table. That this process is presided over by
the United States government, which provides $3 billion
annually in military aid to Israel, and specifically by
Martin Indyk, former research director at infamous Israel
lobby organization the America Israel Public Affairs
Committe, only adds insult to injury and makes clear that
these negotiations will bring nothing of value or benefit to
the Palestinian people.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Today,
we say: PA
President Mahmoud Abbas does not represent us! Our rights
cannot and will not be bargained away at a negotiating table
in Washington, DC.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Instead,
we affirm that
the Palestinian people are one people and our cause is one
cause. Our people have struggled for 65 years in order to
achieve the liberation of the land and people of Palestine
and the implementation of the right of Palestinian refugees
to return their homes.</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">As
Palestinians in
shatat/diaspora, we are not being represented here, and we
demand to reclaim our voice and role. We do not accept these
negotiations, and our rights, our people and our land are
not for sale!</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>SIGN
ON:
Email <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:NoToNegotiations@gmail.com"
target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:NoToNegotiations@gmail.com">NoToNegotiations@gmail.<wbr>com</a> or
use
the form: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bit.ly/NoToNegotiations" target="_blank"
data-mce-href="http://bit.ly/NoToNegotiations">http://bit.ly/<wbr>NoToNegotiations</a></b></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><strong><em>Initiating
Signatories</em></strong></p>
<p
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Al-Awda
NY - Palestine
Right to Return Coalition<br>
Canada Palestine Association<br>
Canadian Students' Coalition for Palestine<br>
Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat<br>
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network<br>
Students for Justice in Palestine at Florida Atlantic
University<br>
Students for Justice in Palestine at Brooklyn College<br>
Students for Justice in Palestine at Hunter College<br>
Students for Justice in Palestine at College of Staten
Island<br>
Students for Justice in Palestine at John Jay College<br>
Toronto Students for Justice in Palestine<br>
US Palestinian Community Network<br>
Voice of Palestine</p>
<p
style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Abdullah
Khalifeh,
Vancouver, BC, Canada<br>
Amani Barakat, Moorpark, California<br>
Amer Taha, Houston, Texas<br>
Amin Husain, New York City<br>
Aya Dama, London<br>
Dr. C. Nureddin Awad, Cuba<br>
Cynthia George Taha, Bellingham<br>
Dina Omar, New Haven, CT<br>
Fadi Shbita, Montreal, Canada<br>
Falastine As-Saleh, Palestine<br>
Faten Toubasi, Toronto, Canada<br>
Feras Al-Hefnawi, USA<br>
Fuad Abboud, Calgary, Canada<br>
Ghada Talhami, Evanston, Illinois, US<br>
Ghasan Taha, Bellingham<br>
Ghassan Al-Sahli<br>
Gihad Ali, Chicago, IL<br>
Haitham Salawdeh, Wauwatisa, WI<br>
Hanaa Yosef, Lebanon<br>
Hanna Kawas, chairperson, Canada Palestine Association and
co-host, Voice of Palestine<br>
Hatem Abudayyeh, Chicago, IL<br>
Hazem Ghanam, Coquitlam, BC, Canada<br>
Ida Audeh, Colorado<br>
Imad Shalbak, Bayshore, NY, USA<br>
Issam Al-Yamani, Toronto, Canada<br>
Jadallah Safa, Brazil<br>
Khaled Barakat, Vancouver, Canada<br>
Lamis J. Deek, J.D., NY/ Huwarra Nablus Palestine<br>
Marsilio Salem<br>
May Abboud, Bethesda, MD, USA<br>
Mazin Al Nahawi<br>
Monadel Herzallah, California<br>
Nahla Abdo, Canada<br>
Rabab Abdulhadi, California<br>
Rajai Ghattas, Vernon, BC, Canada<br>
Rami Alsaqqa, Vancouver, Canada<br>
Randa Kamal, San Francisco, California<br>
Rena Zuabi, Palestine<br>
Sabrina Azraq, Toronto, Canada<br>
Salma Abu Ayyash, Cambridge, MA<br>
Sana Ibrahim, USA<br>
Suleiman Hodali, Los Angeles, CA<br>
Talal A. Kanaan<br>
Yara Erian, London, Ontario<br>
Yasmeen Daher, Montreal, Canada<br>
Ziyad Zaitoun, Seattle</p>
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