PFLP agrees to participate in PA elections, while rejecting Oslo Accords and promising to continue the “armed struggle” to erase Israel

Headline: “The Popular Front [for the Liberation of Palestine] decides to participate in the coming elections for the [PA] Parliament”

“The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced on Sunday [Feb. 21, 2021] that it has decided to participate in the coming elections for the [PA] Parliament (Legislative Council). The PFLP General Central Committee held a meeting today, ‘during which it discussed the great dangers surrounding the Palestinian cause that aim to eliminate our national rights, especially following the signing of the humiliating and catastrophic Oslo Accords for which our people has paid dearly.

It emphasized the unity of the territory, the people, and the identity in our lands that were occupied in 1948(i.e., Israel), in the Palestinian West Bank, in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, in all the refugee camps, and in the diaspora.It also emphasized that our people’s right of return to its land, from which it was expelled in 1948, is the foundation and the essence of the Palestinian cause. It also emphasized its firm opposition to recognizing the racist Zionist entity, and its determination to continue with all forms of the struggle, and foremost among them armed resistance, in order to liberate every grain of the soil of Palestine.’

The PFLP Central Committee decided ‘to participate in the elections according to its political fundamentals and its permanent and principled positions regarding its conflict with the Zionist entity:

A. The PFLP’s participation in the elections does not mean that it will be a partner in strengthening the humiliating and catastrophic Oslo Accords… and it does not mean adaptation to this reality, but rather an absolute rejection and opposition [to this reality] in all the political and democratic ways and in all the ways of struggle.

B. The PFLP’s participation in these elections is an attempt to manage and correct the internal balance of powers, in order to reduce the decision making that is being done without cooperation and in an individual manner, and in order to take advantage of our presence in the political confrontation with the influential leadership that still adheres to Oslo and its consequences on the ground…

E. The PFLP firmly refuses to recognize the Zionist entity, calls to revoke the unfortunate recognition of this entity, and works for this purpose.

F. Relying on its principles, the PFLP rejects and opposes all the political arrangements whose goal is to eliminate the Palestinian cause. It also rejects the exploitation of the elections in order to enter new negotiations under the administration of [US President Joe] Biden, which constitutes a continuation of the attempts to eliminate the Palestinian cause…

H. The PFLP continues to firmly oppose the Oslo Accords and that which stems from them, anddemands that the PA and the leadership annul themand cut off the connection with the occupation.’

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The central committee concluded its meeting with a blessing of honor and pride for our people wherever they are. It again committed to our lauded Martyrs and our heroic prisoners that the PFLP will continue to be loyal to them and to adhere to the goals for which they struggled and continue to struggle – the liberation of all of Palestine and the establishment of the democratic State of Palestine on its land.”