RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- MP Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, the secretary general of the Palestinian national initiative party, has called for planning a national strategy that would merge popular resistance with national steadfastness in addition to rallying international support for the Palestine cause.

Barghouthi in a press statement on Monday said that the Israeli government does not want peace and was planning to prolong a kind of Palestinian self-rule under the guise of a Palestinian state.

He said that young men in Ni'lin managed to knock down a small part of the wall cutting their village into two halves, noting that the event took place as the world was celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The MP charged Israel with turning the longest occupation in modern history into an apartheid regime that is the worst in the history of mankind.

Barghouthi appealed to the world community to impose sanctions on Israel to force it to halt crimes in the Palestinian lands and to end the racist occupation and its arbitrary measures in Jerusalem and other occupied lands.