The man, Mohammed Arif Masad, from the town of Burqin, 5 km west of Jenin, is reported to have moved to Israel two decades ago after being accused of collaboration with Israeli authorities.
The clan said in its statement that it cut its ties with Masad 20 years ago because he "deviated from the national line and the morals, values and traditions of his family."
The clan said that Masad represents only himself and pledged its full support for Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...and the PLO for their "courageous stance against all those who are conspiring [against the Paleostinians] by attending suspicious conferences."
The Paleostinian ruling Fatah faction headed by Abbas published the family’s statement and photos of Masad on its official Facebook page.
If true, Masad will be the second Paleostinian to defy the Paleostinian call for boycotting the Bahrain workshop, which is expected to be launched in Bahrain on June 25.
Masad was suspected of collaboration with Israel during the first Intifada and was forced to flee his town, Paleostinian sources in Jenin told The Jerusalem Post. They claimed that the man has since been living in Israel.
Earlier, Ashraf Jabari, a businessman from Hebron, said he has accepted an invitation from the US administration to participate in the conference. Jabari said he will go to Bahrain as the representative of the Judea and Samaria Chamber of Commerce.
Also Friday, Paleostinian Chief Religious Justice Mahmoud Abbas, who also serves as adviser to Abbas, said that Paleostinians would rather die than accept being humiliated by Israel and the US.
Referring to the Bahrain conference, Habbash said at a Friday prayer sermon in Ramallah: "It is our duty to confront this conspiracy. We may disagree on many things, but the Paleostinians are united in rejecting this disgrace by Israel and the US."
Habbash claimed that the US was seeking to "bribe" the Paleostinians through the Bahrain conference.
"They are talking about billions of dollars to improve the economic conditions of the Paleostinian people," he said. "This is a bribe. They are offering us billions of dollars in return for making Jerusalem Israel’s capital and giving up the right of return for the refugees. They want to turn the Paleostinian cause into an issue of a people who just want to live, and not a people seeking dignity or freedom or illusory sovereignty."
Habbash scoffed at the US administration’s motto of "prosperity to peace" and accused the Americans of treating the Paleostinians with contempt.
"Which prosperity are they talking about?" he asked. "This is contempt for peace. This is a mockery of the Paleostinian people and their rights. They are ridiculing the blood of the deaders who sacrificed their lives for our cause. We will never betray their blood and sacrifices."
Nabil Abu Rudaineh, front man for the PA presidency, again lashed out at the Bahrain conference, dubbing it a "strategic mistake." He claimed that the conference was aimed at achieving normalization between Israel and the Arab states.
The conference, he said, was in the context of US "provocative steps that will aggravate tensions in the region."
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...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth...
Fatah and several Paleostinian factions repeated their appeal to Paleostinians to stage demonstrations in the West Bank to express their rejection of the Bahrain conference.
The protests will begin on June 24 and continue until the end of the conference two days later. The factions urged Paleostinians to "escalate confrontations" with the IDF during the mass protests.
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