Cut all ties with Israel, launch new revolt, Barghouti tells Palestinians

Cut all ties with Israel, launch new revolt, Barghouti tells Palestinians.....WHY DO WE ALLOW THIS IDIOT AND OTHERS TO BE HEARD IN THE OUTER WORLD...THEY SHOULD BE PUT IN SOLITARY OR EXECUTED!!!!!

Convicted Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, serving multiple life sentences in prison, says time has come for a popular uprising • Barghouti is highly popular and considered possible successor to Palestinian Authority President Abbas.

Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

Marwan Barghouti, serving a life term in prison, calls for renewed uprising against Israel in light of disappointment from talks.  |  Photo credit: Reuters

RAMALLAH -- From his cell in an Israeli prison, one of the Palestinians’ most notorious figures on Monday called for a new wave of civil resistance and for severing all ties with Israel.

Marwan Barghouti is a leading figure in the Fatah movement. His leadership and charisma were seen as a driving force behind the Palestinians’ last intifada, or uprising, against Israelis launched in late 2000, during which he served as the head of Fatah’s armed militia, the Tanzim.

His views continue to have deep currency with the Palestinian public and he enjoys wide support across the contending array of Palestinian factions. It is widely speculated that Israel might at some point release Barghouti.

“The launch of large-scale popular resistance at this stage serves the cause of our people,” Barghouti said in a statement commemorating the 10th year of his imprisonment by Israel.

“Stop marketing the illusion that there is a possibility of ending the occupation and achieving a state through negotiations after this vision has failed miserably,” he said, in a message read to a crowd of supporters in the Palestinian city of Ramallah.

Despite his multiple life sentences on charges of orchestrating lethal attacks and suicide bombings, Barghouti is viewed as a potential successor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who is also Fatah’s leader.

The call to action comes at a combustible period, with the peace process currently at an impasse. Some fear that planned Palestinian commemorations of an annual protest against Israeli land confiscations on Friday, including marches to Jerusalem, could erupt in violence.

A 40-day hunger strike by a female detainee and a similar campaign by dozens of other Palestinians in Israeli custody are also firing popular anger.

In his address, Barghouti called for “stopping all forms of security and economic coordination [with Israel] in all areas immediately,” which would upend years of often volatile but persistent coexistence between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

The Palestinian leadership, while lending rhetorical support to protests and pursuing recognition in various bodies of the United Nations, has until now cleaved to a more moderate and non-confrontational policy.

After Abbas’ government scored a minor victory in persuading the U.N.’s Human Rights Council in Geneva to investigate Israel’s settlement policy, Barghouti argued for more drastic action.

He called for “a renewal of efforts” to achieve recognition of Palestinian statehood at the U.N. Security Council, an effort which failed last year when Washington backed Israel’s rejection of the resolution as a unilateral move to sidestep negotiations.

Barghouti said that the Palestinians should take their statehood case to the General Assembly or other agencies as an alternative, alluding to forums in which the Palestinians have wider support.

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