[[{"content_id":"100538","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"PFLP urges Fatah for national reconciliation","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2007-12-15 10:32:00","content_summary":"","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":" \r\nA senior official of the Palestinian PFLP movement called on Fatah on Friday to begin a dialogue with Hamas to overcome their political differences. \r\n \r\n"We call on our brothers in Fatah to embark on a national dialogue to close ranks," Maher Taher, the representative of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Damascus, said during a speech marking the 40th anniversary of the movement's establishment.\r\n \r\n"The matter doesn't deserve all this conflict over a partitioned authority that is shackled with all kinds of Zionist conditions," Taher added. \r\n \r\nHamas has called for negotiations with Fatah, but Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has refused.\r\n \r\nHamas and other Palestinian groups, like PFLP, have criticized Abbas for holding talks with Zionist regime, especially after he participated in Annapolis meeting.\r\n \r\nTaher said the Annapolis meeting was aimed at fueling internal Palestinian turmoil and ending their resistance. \r\n \r\n"We adhere fast to our weapons ... all calls to end resistance would be doomed to failure," he said.\r\n \r\nThe rally where Taher spoke was held at the al-Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus and was attended by some 1000 people in a giant tent decorated with Palestinian flags and banners. \r\n \r\n"The unity of the Palestinians is the only guarantee for the supreme national rights of the Palestinian people," read one banner. \r\n \r\n "The Annapolis meeting is a step for division, liquidation and normalization (of relations with Zionist regime)," said advertisement. \r\nThe gathering was attended by representatives from several other Damascus-based Palestinian factions. \r\n \r\nZiyad Nakhaleh, the assistant secretary general of the Islamic Jihad Movement, also urged Palestinian factions to close ranks and to "go out of the current crisis."","content_html":" \r\n