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<p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AlAkhbarEnglish/~3/wFofgKBkcMU/pflp-hamas-blast-abu-mazens-return-remarks" target="_blank"><strong>Al Akhbar English | Saturday, November 3, 2012</strong></a><br />
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<p>The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine joined Hamas Saturday in condemning in PA president Mahmoud Abbas&#8217;s ceding of his right of return on Israeli TV.</p>
<p>The leftist group said Abbas&#8217; public surrendering of his claims to his childhood village of Safad contradicted PLO resolutions affirming the right of return to property Israelis dispossessed from Palestinians in 1948.</p>
<p>“Abbas with his remarks lives in a dreamland and tries to beg for the American and Israeli position to hope to gain something,” said PFLP leader Rabah Mhanna.</p>
<p>He called on the PLO executive committee and central council to rebuke the president.</p>
<p>“No Palestinian would accept ceding the right of our people to return to homes, villages and towns from which they were displaced,” said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri.</p>
<p>“If Abu Mazen does not want Safad, Safad would be honored not to host people like him.”</p>
<p>Hamas prime minister Imail Haniyeh said Abbas&#8217; remarks were “extremely dangerous” and contradicted longtime Palestinian territorial demands.</p>
<p>Abbas&#8217; comments came on the eve of the 95th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which made official British support for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.</p>
<p>Pressed by <a href="http://bit.ly/VGBAXd" target="_blank"><strong>Israeli Channel 2 TV</strong></a> about whether the Palestinian Authority considered towns in the Galilee to be part of Palestine, Abbas struck a deeply personal note in the Authority&#8217;s latest efforts to placate Israeli concerns about Palestinian refugees.<br />
&#8220;I want to see Safad. It&#8217;s my right to see it. But not to live there,&#8221; said an impassioned Abbas.</p>
<p>He was born and raised in the northern town of Safad in 1935, fleeing to Syria with his family during Israel&#8217;s violent campaign to dispossess and expel Palestinians in 1948.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Authority has for more than two decades pushed to strike a deal with Israel that would establish a Palestinian state on borders annexed by Israel after 1967, ceding its right to those taken in 1948. However, they have reassured skeptical Palestinians that such a deal, known as the two-state solution, would not contradict the right to return.</p>
<p>However, documents leaked to Al-Jazeera last year detailing 10 years of Israeli negotiations with the Palestinian Authority gave rise to fresh skepticism, with Israeli negotiators saying they would agree to a symbolic number of returnees&#8211;less than 10,000 of the 7 million currently scattered around the world and in refugee camps. Chief Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat was found to have countered that offer with 150,000 refugees.</p>
<p><i>(Ma&#8217;an, Al-Akhbar)</i></p>
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