Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has commended the Arab initiative on annexation that demands imposing sanctions on Israel.
The petition was proposed by former Algerian Foreign Minister Lakhdar Brahimi, with the support of Arab officials, human rights activists, academics, legal experts, artists, scientists and intellectuals.
“The systematic dispossession of the Palestinian people is reaching a critical inflection point with Israel’s moves to formally annex even more of Palestine. (…) In bringing the Zionist design, which goes back to Theodore Herzl, for absolute control of all of Palestine close to complete fulfilment, this Israeli-American plan defies the universal principles of self-determination and peace based on justice,” read the initiative.
“It also involves the most blatant US support ever for these maximalist objectives, in flagrant contravention of international law, and decades of UN resolutions,” it continued.
“We fully support the right of the Palestinians to utilize all forms of legitimate resistance to this plan and to the dispossession, occupation, oppression and systematic discrimination to which Israel subjects them, including their right to campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel,” it added.
The initiative includes 65 figures from all Arab countries and has been signed by over 6,800 people.
In a telephone call with Abbas, Brahimi said he considers himself as longtime champion of Palestinian rights.
