Palestinian activists call for protesting against Obama’s visit to occupied territories

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM,(ST)_the Popular Committee for Defending Syria in the occupied Palestine has appealed to the Palestinian people to protest against the US President’s forthcoming visit to the occupied territories.

The committee’s statement signed by Palestinian activists, professors, clergymen, intellectuals and reporters said: “Barak Obama’s visit to the Palestinian lands is an attempt to consolidate occupation and force the Palestinian people to accept the idea of ‘Jewish State’ on the Palestinian people’s land.”

It added that the timing of the visit comes at a time when the US Administration seeks to destroy Syria to serve the Zionist entity’s interest.

The statement called on the Palestinian and Arab peoples to boycott the US culture, policy and goods.

The committee reminded of the US Administrations’ role in destroying Arab states, stressing the US has changed its aggressive tools in wars.

“The US perpetrate killing by drone, recruit terrorists to destroy Syria in order to turn it into a hot-bed of the so called ‘political Islam’ which is being blessed by the kings and Emirs of oil states, the statement read.

Obama is expected to visit the occupied Palestinian territories between 20-22 March.

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