Published: Nov 3, 2011 20:27 Updated: Nov 3, 2011 20:27
RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Authority (PA) is considering severe steps if Israel continues its settlement activity in occupied territories and in response to the failure of the Quartet to resume the peace process, a Palestinian official said on Thursday.
Nabil Abu Rdaineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, told the BBC Radio that the steps would be “important and serious” that would “change the face of the region and the entire Middle East.” He didn’t elaborate.
Israel withheld tax revenues to the PA, ordered the building of 2,000 houses in East Jerusalem which the Palestinians want as a future capital, and decided to ban UNESCO representatives from entering the Palestinian territories after the UN body made Palestine a member.
Ghassan Al-Khatib, spokesman of the West Bank-based Palestinian government, said the Israeli actions were likely to undermine the PA.
Abbas told Palestine TV that he would push to dissolve the PA if Israel did not stop building settlements and if peace talks collapsed. Abbas said he could not remain the president of an authority that did not exist.
An Egyptian official told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that Abbas’s threats to resign and dismantle the PA were not a maneuver but the result of frustration over lack of progress in the peace process.
PA to take drastic steps if Israelis do not budge - Arab News
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