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Al-Aqsa Brigades denounce Geneva Initiative, threaten its backers
JENIN, West Bank (AFP) Nov 29, 2003
The hardline Palestinian Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades denounced the Geneva Initiative on Saturday, slamming its instigators as "Israeli collaborators" and threatening those who "play" with Palestinians' future.

Those who drew up the controversial plan are "Israeli collaborators and play to the tune of Zionism and the Americans," the group said in a statement obtained by AFP.

The largely autonomous armed offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah movement lashed out the initiative's instigators for renouncing the previously sacroscant right of millions of Palestinian refugees to return to Israel.

"We will never give up this right and we warn those who do not have the right to play with the future of our people," the statement said.

The 50-page Geneva Initiative -- due to be signed in the Swiss city on Monday -- was drafted by both leading Israelis and Palestinians.

The plan notably calls for the creation of a demilitarized Palestinian state covering a vast majority of the territories seized by Israel in June 1967, and it also calls for shared sovereignty over Jerusalem.

In return, the initiative waives the right of return for some 3.8 million Palestinian refugees.

But Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has firmly rejected the initiative, warning against attempts to bypass governments, while Arafat has declined to endorse the detailed effort.

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