DFLP leader pessimistic about Palestinian situation, views possible solutions.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report on interview with Nayif Hawatimah, secretary-general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine [DFLP], by Nadia Sa'd al-Din, date and place not given, entitled "In an interview on the national unity government, Hawatimah calls on Fatah and Hamas to stop the factional conflict; We caution against sliding towards the brink of the abyss; National dialogue in Damascus was postponed due to the conditions in the occupied territories" published on Palestinian newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadidah website on 29 September

Nayif Hawatimah, secretary-general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine [DFLP], has announced the postponement of the national dialogue which was scheduled in Damascus yesterday due to the current circumstances in the occupied territories. He said that the meeting was contingent on developments in the next few days. Hawatimah added that the current haemorrhage should stop and we should abandon the policy of bringing us to the brink of the abyss, in favour of a policy of common denominators on which the solutions to the current Palestinian crises can be built. Hawatimah held the Fatah and Hamas movements responsible for the tension and divisions in the Palestinian territories that have been escalating since the beginning of this …