Bahar: Kidnapping MPs failed in blackmailing them

[ 27/06/2009 - 03:19 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC), has said that Israeli kidnapping of PLC members did not succeed in blackmailing them into offering political concessions. Bahar in an exclusive statement to the PIC on Saturday said that while in captivity the Palestinian MPs did not budge from their insistence on national constants and did not accept any bargaining over legitimate rights topped by the right of return and establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. After three years of kidnapping and illegal detention in Israeli occupation authority jails, the Palestinian MPs still insist on their legitimate representation of the Palestinian people, the deputy speaker underlined. He said that release of Dr. Aziz Dwaik, the PLC speaker, on the third anniversary of the kidnappings points to failure of American-backed Zionist schemes hatched with the collusion of certain Palestinian parties. Dr. Bahar highlighted that the warm reception accorded to Dr. Dwaik reflects that he is the real representative of Palestinian legitimacy and that the three years of custody did not affect the people's confidence in their representatives.