"RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Dr. Abdul Sattar Qassem, a veteran Palestinian academic, has lashed out at the recent speech of American president Barack Obama in Cairo on Thursday, saying that it only carried a change of tone not of heart.
Qassem told Quds Press news agency on Saturday that Obama's speech did not carry any real change in American administration's stand regarding the Palestine issue.
The political science professor said that if the US really wanted to change its stands then it should stop supporting Israel and should end interfering in Palestinian internal affairs.
He expressed surprise at the welcome statements by Arab regimes, saying that Obama's words rejecting expansion of settlements did not pose as a final solution to the Palestine issue as there are still core issues not touched such as the Israeli occupation itself, Jerusalem and the right of return for millions of refugees.
Qassem said that Washington's praise of the Ramallah authority's assassination of resistance activists in the West Bank proved that it was seeking Palestinian infighting."
Qassem told Quds Press news agency on Saturday that Obama's speech did not carry any real change in American administration's stand regarding the Palestine issue.
The political science professor said that if the US really wanted to change its stands then it should stop supporting Israel and should end interfering in Palestinian internal affairs.
He expressed surprise at the welcome statements by Arab regimes, saying that Obama's words rejecting expansion of settlements did not pose as a final solution to the Palestine issue as there are still core issues not touched such as the Israeli occupation itself, Jerusalem and the right of return for millions of refugees.
Qassem said that Washington's praise of the Ramallah authority's assassination of resistance activists in the West Bank proved that it was seeking Palestinian infighting."
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