PA: 'Right of return' a red line

The Palestinian Authority will never give up the right of return for all refugees to their original homes inside Israel, Zakariya al-Agha, head of the PLO's Refugees Department, said on Saturday.

Meanwhile a prominent Palestinian commentator, Hani al-Masri, called on the PA not to abandon the armed struggle in light of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's remarks at the Herzliya Conference last Thursday.

And PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), who arrived in Oman Saturday as part of a Gulf tour to ask for financial aid, said Sharon's statements were "disastrous" to the peace process and insisted that the Palestinians would make no concessions on the right of return.
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The Palestinian leadership, he [Al-Agha] emphasized, will never sign any deal with Israel that abolishes the right of all the refugees to return to their original homes. It is "a red line for the Palestinian leadership that can't be trespassed," he said. "There won't be stability in the region until each one of the refugees feels that he has attained his freedom to return to his home. Without this, the refugees will use all methods available to achieve the right of return."

Palestinian political analyst al-Masri said Israel was making a mistake by assuming that the Palestinians have changed after the death of Yasser Arafat. He also said the new Palestinian leadership was making a mistake by calling for abandoning the armed struggle against Israel.
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In a joint statement with Islamic Jihad, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades in the Gaza Strip said they will ignore Abbas's call to stop the violence.

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