Palestinian Prime Minister Tells Conference on Non-Violence: Keep Working to Build State

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Faya’d told a conference on non-violent resistance on Wednesday that progress is being made through a boycott of goods manufactured or grown in Israeli communities located on land acquired in the 1967 war. Faya’d described the boycott as a manifestation of a policy of “peaceful resistance” and predicted that the campaign will result in an end of the sale of such products to Palestinians by 2011. He told conference participants that his administration would forge ahead with development projects in “areas C” – the Oslo Accords’ designation of land over where Israel has full military and civilian responsibility. Faya’d said that “all land occupied in 1967 is Palestinian land and not disputed territory.”