‘Israel-Palestine peace talks would go nowhere’

The proposed peace talks between zionist Israel and Palestine would lead nowhere and are only meant to gain concessions from the Palestinian Authority, according to a representative of the Islamic Jihad Movement.
“We are confident that the negotiations… would get nowhere given the current circumstances, and they just want to bring (Acting Palestinian Authority President) Mahmoud Abbas to the negotiating table to compel him to make some retreats,” Nasser Abu Sharif, the Islamic Jihad Movement’s representative in Iran, told reporters ahead of International Quds Day in Tehran on Sunday.

International Quds Day is a day of solidarity with Palestine observed on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan. Anti-Zionist demonstrations are held on Quds Day all over the world, especially in Iran, where the event was inaugurated after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The late Imam Khomeini, the Founder of the Islamic Republic, made the proposal to establish an international day of solidarity with Palestinians in August of that year.

Quds Day will be commemorated in Iran on August 2 this year.