Fatah calls palestinians of al-Quds to give up israeli citizenship
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 8/30/2000

Fatah, the major faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Tuesday called the Palestinian inhabitants of eastern Al-Quds (Jerusalem) to renounce Israeli citizenship.

The call was made in tracts distributed in Al-Quds, at a time Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are in a deadlock because of divergences over the future of the holy city. Tel Aviv refuses to make any concession regarding the eastern part of Al-Quds that it annexed in 1967.

Faycal Al-Husseini, who is in charge of the Al-Quds dossier at the Palestinian National Authority, had described as "traitors" the Palestinians who apply for Israeli citizenship.

"He who applies for an Israeli passport is a traitor and will not be member of the Palestinian society," Al-Husseini said.

The Al-Quds Mufti, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, had recently recalled a fatwa (religious opinion) categorically banning Palestinians from acquiring Israeli citizenship.

Over the 200,000 inhabitants of eastern Al-Quds only 3,300 got Israeli citizenship, according to the Israeli interior department.

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