PLO Executive Committee adheres to right of return, refuses partial Israeli tax transfers as “robbery, theft, and stealing”
Headline: "The [PLO] Executive Committee rejected the statements of Kushner against the [PA] leadership and emphasized its adherence to the right of return"
"The PLO Executive Committee rejected the statements of [US] President [Donald] Trump’s Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, who attacked the Palestinian leadership and talked about the end of the refugees' right of return after the failure of the Manama workshop [in Bahrain] to attempt to sell illusions in the region through the billions that they are talking about, in an attempt to exchange the Palestinian rights for money and hypothetical projects (i.e., refers to US-led conference in Bahrain in June 2019 focusing on economic aspects of Trump's Middle East peace plan).
In a statement that it published after its advisory meeting yesterday [July 4, 2019], the Executive Committee emphasized the position of the Palestinian leadership, factions, and people, which has emphasized the adherence to our people’s rights – which are based on the sacrifices it has made along the path of its struggle under the leadership of the PLO, our people’s sole legal representative – that include the refugees’ right of return based on [UN] Resolution 194 (see note below –Ed.), the right of self-determination, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty in the borders of June 4, 1967, whose capital is Jerusalem…
The Executive Committee also emphasized the national decision to refuse to accept the partial tax money (refers to Israeli Anti “Pay-for-Slay” law to deduct terror salaries; see note below –Ed.), and noted that this money is a Palestinian right that is not subject to robbery, theft, and stealing that Israel is committing as part of the economic siege imposed on the Palestinian people and its leadership."