RAMALLAH, January 26, 2011 (WAFA) – The Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee meeting in Ramallah on Wednesday called on members of the quartet for Middle East peace to support an Arab-sponsored Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.

The Executive Committee meeting, chaired by President Mahmoud Abbas, also reaffirmed its position that it will not resume negotiations with Israel before the latter halts all settlement activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

It also condemned the Qatari Al Jazeera satellite channel for what it said was falsification of negotiations documents leaked to it.

Reading from a statement following the meeting, PLO secretary Yasser Abed Rabbo said that the Palestine delegation at the United Nations will continue to work with members of the Arab group and others to get their support for the resolution, sponsored by 120 member states.

“We call on the quartet members, who are going to meet early next month, to sponsor this resolution at the Security Council,” he said.

Abed Rabbo also stressed that the Palestinian Authority will not resume negotiations with Israel stalled since September after the latter refused to extend a freeze on settlement activities.

“The Palestinian leadership reaffirms its position that resumption of negotiations demand Israel’s commitment to total halt to settlements, particularly in Jerusalem, and to abide by international law regarding the status of the occupied land,” he said.

The PLO condemned what it described as “the malicious campaign waged by al-Jazeera and which has turned out to be just a tool to distort the Palestinian stand.”

It said al-Jazeera has stood in the same position as “Israel and the enemies of the Palestinian people who are working today against the steadfast position of the Palestinian leadership.”

It said “the timing of this campaign is no less dangerous than the wide range and pre-meditated forgeries” of the documents through selecting words out of context.

“The purpose behind this is to divide the unity of the Palestinian people and to give pretexts to parties and countries to widen the division and find an alternative leadership to the PLO,” it said.

It said, “The campaign by Al Jazeera represents a political program to undermine our national program and steadfastness.”

“This campaign,” it added, “makes us more determined to continue on our steadfast course and not to give up our achievements.”

M.A.