PRC-UTE
31st July 2006, 03:16
Let Us Form the Broadest Possible Arab People's Front
by George Habash
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/habash230706.html
Dr. George Habash, Founder of the Arab Nationalists' Movement and of
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Calls for the
Formation of the Broadest Possible Arab People's Front in Support of
the Lebanese and Palestinian Resistance
Masses of our Glorious Arab Nation,
Courageous Resistance Fighters in the fraternal land of Lebanon,
Steadfast Masses of our Palestinian people and their Resistance heroes,
Today our Arab Nation faces a historic crossroads, one that reminds us
of the great turning points in our contemporary history. Our Arab
Nation's struggle with the Zionist enemy backed by Western imperialist
and colonialist circles has always aroused feelings of pain and
bitterness over the complicity, impotence, and submission of the
official Arab regimes that historically led to defeats and setbacks
that our great nation did not deserve. But today and perhaps for the
first time, we are filled with a certain sense that this situation is
about to change -- not because the impotence and complicity of
official Arab regimes has ended, for it is the same as always, or
maybe even has become more deadly -- nor because the international
community with its double standards has somehow returned to its senses
-- but because an epic of defiance and heroism is being written by the
heroes of the Lebanese Resistance under the leadership of Hizballah
and its General Secretary, his Eminence Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah, and by
the heroes of the Palestinian Resistance in Ghazza and other
Palestinian cities. This time they have taken the cause into their
own hands, without illusions, and now they represent the spearhead of
an Arab nation eager to rise up triumphant.
The steadfastness of our people in Palestine and Lebanon, the torrents
of pure blood shed by the steadfast women, children, old people, and
youths of Lebanon and Palestine will light the path once again before
this Nation, which this time must either recover from its fall or sink
into a dark abyss for a long time to come.
We are filled with a strong feeling that victory is on the horizon and
that we have begun to recover our honor and pride. For the first time
the courageous Lebanese and Palestinian Resistance have begun to
repair the gap between words and deeds. We are acquiring an enormous
credibility that has surprised and confused the enemy and the
international community. Words are followed by the deeds of the
Resistance on the ground. Slogans are actually put into heroic
practice, and the Zionist enemy is robbed of sleep as he tries to
impose his will by resorting to the most vicious use of his massive
war machine to destroy infrastructure and kill innocent civilians.
Yet this does nothing to break the determination of the courageous
Resistance or the steadfastness of our people in Palestine and Lebanon
who are paying a high price in support of the legitimate national
resistance around which they have rallied.
The issue has gone far beyond the matter of Zionist prisoners, which
in any case was nothing more than the Zionist enemy's excuse when it
took up the task assigned it by the American administration and the
international community to do the dirty work of stripping the Lebanese
Resistance of its resistant arms so that the American-Zionist
strategic plan could be implemented, pushing Lebanon into the ranks of
the defeated and compliant Arab regimes, undermining Syria's ability
to resist, and forcing Zionist dictates on the Palestinian people
under separate unilaterally imposed settlement arrangements.
Masses of our Glorious Arab Nation,
Today we are faced with a historic opportunity to arise and resist.
Let us form the broadest possible Arab national people's front that
will embrace the vital forces of the masses of our Arab Nation --
political parties, trade unions, federations, representatives of civil
society, cultural figures, patriotic personalities -- to support the
spearhead represented today by the heroic Lebanese and Palestinian
Resistance.
Let all the latent energies and inventiveness in the masses of our
Arab Nation be aroused, everywhere in the broadest possible people's
movement in defense of the honor and pride of the nation to beat back
the tyrannical Zionist-American design.
Greetings to the people of Lebanon and their heroic patriotic Resistance!
Greetings to the people of Palestine and their steadfastness and
sacrifice!
Freedom to all prisoners and detainees in the dungeons of the occupation!
Eternal glory to the virtuous martyrs!
Victory belongs to the people who resist for freedom and honor!
The original text in Arabic was published at the Web site of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine on 20 July 2006.
Translation by Muhammad Abu Nasr
.................................................. ....................
PFLP salutes and admires fighting people of Lebanon
Statement issued by the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine on the escalation of Zionist aggression against the
territory of Lebanon and Palestine
http://www.antiimperialista.org/index.php?...=4598&Itemid=55 (http://www.antiimperialista.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4598&Itemid=55)
Epic steadfastness and resistance - the epic of Ghazza and al-Karama -
continue in the land of Palestine and Lebanon. The Lebanese and Palestinian
peoples are writing a page of glory in the history of the Arab Nation and
Islamic world community and in the history of all humanity. At a time of
impotence, collusion, and submission by official Arab regimes, as evidenced
by the results of the meetings of Arab foreign ministers, the knights of
Hizballah and the knights of Palestine continue their heroic defiance of the
Israeli terrorist war machine in defense not only of Palestine and Lebanon,
but in defense of the entire Arab Nation, its future generations and
children.
In the shadow of this genocidal war that is being waged by the Zionist
entity against Lebanese and Palestinian lands and peoples, the Political
Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine declares as
follows:
First. The fighting people of Lebanon, their vital forces and heroic
resistance under the leadership of militant Hizballah, with his excellency
Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah, the image of pride and honor and defiance, at their
head, are today writing an epic that will go down in history and have the
most profound effect on the present and future of the whole region. This
epic marks the beginning of the foundation, formation, and construction of a
new stage in the history of the Arab Zionist conflict.
The heroic hands that fired the missiles of resistance at the cities of
Haifa, Akka, Safad, Tabariya, and Nahariya inflicted dozens of killed and
wounded in the ranks of the Zionist forces. Those hands are reasserting
respect for the idea of struggle against this rapacious entity with which
there can be no coexistence after it has become clear to everyone how false
and useless are calls for peace and negotiations with gangs of murderers and
criminals who understand nothing but the language of weapons and resistance
The strikes at Palestinian cities by missiles fired by the heroic Lebanese
resistance created and will continue to create a new balance of terror that
will have the most profound effect on the Zionist enemy, psychologically,
politically, economically, militarily, and in their morale. Those who occupy
the land of Palestine will realize that the continuation of their occupation
will come at an enormous cost.
The escalation of the strikes at the land of Palestine by the Palestinian
and Lebanese Resistance has great historical meaning and will have the most
profound effects on and ramifications for the future of the criminal Zionist
entity.
Second. The contemptible results of the meeting of Arab foreign ministers
amounted to a stab at the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon and showed
once again to what depths of decay, collusion, and submission some Arab
rulers have sunk in compliance with the dictates of the American
administration, pursuing policies that are in total contradiction with the
interests of their peoples and the supreme interests of the Arab Nation.The
inability of the Arab foreign ministers to take a clear stance in support of
the resistance and to take practical measures to stop the Zionist aggression
against Lebanon and Palestine demonstrate to what an extent the official
Arab regimes have fallen into ruin and collapse.
Third. The Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine calls on the Arab masses and their vital popular forces, it calls
on the trade unions and federations to shoulder their responsibility and
duty in defending Lebanon and Palestine and in going out in demonstrations
and all forms of popular activity to pressure the Arab governments and to
give all forms of support and assistance to the Lebanese and Palestinian
peoples and their heroic resistance movements in defiance of the
American-Zionist plan for the region.
Fourth. The blows of the heroic resistance in Lebanon and Palestine have
placed the Zionist entity in a deep dilemma and have created new equations.
Therefore Israel is trying to export its crisis by attempting to flee
forward and make Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran responsible for what
is going on, even though everyone near and far is well aware that what is
going on is an American-Israeli plan aimed at subjugating the region, an
attempt to put it under their complete control. This is what explains the
intensification and escalation of pressure on steadfast Syria and Iran,
which constitute a mighty barrier in the face of such hostile plans.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine offers its salute and
expresses its admiration for the fighters of resistant Hizballah and the
steadfast people of Lebanon. It declares that it stands beside them will all
its energy in the confrontation with the brutal, barbaric enemy, and it
reaffirms its pledge to continue the struggle and resistance until all the
goals for which legions of martyrs have sacrificed themselves have been
achieved.
Greetings to the people of Lebanon and their heroic resistance!
Greetings to the people of Palestine and their legendary steadfastness!
Freedom for the prisoners and detainees in the dungeons of the occupation!
Glory to the martyrs! Victory belongs to the peoples in battle for freedom!
17 July 2006
Translated by Muhammad Abu Nasr
Arabic original
by George Habash
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/habash230706.html
Dr. George Habash, Founder of the Arab Nationalists' Movement and of
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Calls for the
Formation of the Broadest Possible Arab People's Front in Support of
the Lebanese and Palestinian Resistance
Masses of our Glorious Arab Nation,
Courageous Resistance Fighters in the fraternal land of Lebanon,
Steadfast Masses of our Palestinian people and their Resistance heroes,
Today our Arab Nation faces a historic crossroads, one that reminds us
of the great turning points in our contemporary history. Our Arab
Nation's struggle with the Zionist enemy backed by Western imperialist
and colonialist circles has always aroused feelings of pain and
bitterness over the complicity, impotence, and submission of the
official Arab regimes that historically led to defeats and setbacks
that our great nation did not deserve. But today and perhaps for the
first time, we are filled with a certain sense that this situation is
about to change -- not because the impotence and complicity of
official Arab regimes has ended, for it is the same as always, or
maybe even has become more deadly -- nor because the international
community with its double standards has somehow returned to its senses
-- but because an epic of defiance and heroism is being written by the
heroes of the Lebanese Resistance under the leadership of Hizballah
and its General Secretary, his Eminence Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah, and by
the heroes of the Palestinian Resistance in Ghazza and other
Palestinian cities. This time they have taken the cause into their
own hands, without illusions, and now they represent the spearhead of
an Arab nation eager to rise up triumphant.
The steadfastness of our people in Palestine and Lebanon, the torrents
of pure blood shed by the steadfast women, children, old people, and
youths of Lebanon and Palestine will light the path once again before
this Nation, which this time must either recover from its fall or sink
into a dark abyss for a long time to come.
We are filled with a strong feeling that victory is on the horizon and
that we have begun to recover our honor and pride. For the first time
the courageous Lebanese and Palestinian Resistance have begun to
repair the gap between words and deeds. We are acquiring an enormous
credibility that has surprised and confused the enemy and the
international community. Words are followed by the deeds of the
Resistance on the ground. Slogans are actually put into heroic
practice, and the Zionist enemy is robbed of sleep as he tries to
impose his will by resorting to the most vicious use of his massive
war machine to destroy infrastructure and kill innocent civilians.
Yet this does nothing to break the determination of the courageous
Resistance or the steadfastness of our people in Palestine and Lebanon
who are paying a high price in support of the legitimate national
resistance around which they have rallied.
The issue has gone far beyond the matter of Zionist prisoners, which
in any case was nothing more than the Zionist enemy's excuse when it
took up the task assigned it by the American administration and the
international community to do the dirty work of stripping the Lebanese
Resistance of its resistant arms so that the American-Zionist
strategic plan could be implemented, pushing Lebanon into the ranks of
the defeated and compliant Arab regimes, undermining Syria's ability
to resist, and forcing Zionist dictates on the Palestinian people
under separate unilaterally imposed settlement arrangements.
Masses of our Glorious Arab Nation,
Today we are faced with a historic opportunity to arise and resist.
Let us form the broadest possible Arab national people's front that
will embrace the vital forces of the masses of our Arab Nation --
political parties, trade unions, federations, representatives of civil
society, cultural figures, patriotic personalities -- to support the
spearhead represented today by the heroic Lebanese and Palestinian
Resistance.
Let all the latent energies and inventiveness in the masses of our
Arab Nation be aroused, everywhere in the broadest possible people's
movement in defense of the honor and pride of the nation to beat back
the tyrannical Zionist-American design.
Greetings to the people of Lebanon and their heroic patriotic Resistance!
Greetings to the people of Palestine and their steadfastness and
sacrifice!
Freedom to all prisoners and detainees in the dungeons of the occupation!
Eternal glory to the virtuous martyrs!
Victory belongs to the people who resist for freedom and honor!
The original text in Arabic was published at the Web site of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine on 20 July 2006.
Translation by Muhammad Abu Nasr
.................................................. ....................
PFLP salutes and admires fighting people of Lebanon
Statement issued by the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine on the escalation of Zionist aggression against the
territory of Lebanon and Palestine
http://www.antiimperialista.org/index.php?...=4598&Itemid=55 (http://www.antiimperialista.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4598&Itemid=55)
Epic steadfastness and resistance - the epic of Ghazza and al-Karama -
continue in the land of Palestine and Lebanon. The Lebanese and Palestinian
peoples are writing a page of glory in the history of the Arab Nation and
Islamic world community and in the history of all humanity. At a time of
impotence, collusion, and submission by official Arab regimes, as evidenced
by the results of the meetings of Arab foreign ministers, the knights of
Hizballah and the knights of Palestine continue their heroic defiance of the
Israeli terrorist war machine in defense not only of Palestine and Lebanon,
but in defense of the entire Arab Nation, its future generations and
children.
In the shadow of this genocidal war that is being waged by the Zionist
entity against Lebanese and Palestinian lands and peoples, the Political
Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine declares as
follows:
First. The fighting people of Lebanon, their vital forces and heroic
resistance under the leadership of militant Hizballah, with his excellency
Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah, the image of pride and honor and defiance, at their
head, are today writing an epic that will go down in history and have the
most profound effect on the present and future of the whole region. This
epic marks the beginning of the foundation, formation, and construction of a
new stage in the history of the Arab Zionist conflict.
The heroic hands that fired the missiles of resistance at the cities of
Haifa, Akka, Safad, Tabariya, and Nahariya inflicted dozens of killed and
wounded in the ranks of the Zionist forces. Those hands are reasserting
respect for the idea of struggle against this rapacious entity with which
there can be no coexistence after it has become clear to everyone how false
and useless are calls for peace and negotiations with gangs of murderers and
criminals who understand nothing but the language of weapons and resistance
The strikes at Palestinian cities by missiles fired by the heroic Lebanese
resistance created and will continue to create a new balance of terror that
will have the most profound effect on the Zionist enemy, psychologically,
politically, economically, militarily, and in their morale. Those who occupy
the land of Palestine will realize that the continuation of their occupation
will come at an enormous cost.
The escalation of the strikes at the land of Palestine by the Palestinian
and Lebanese Resistance has great historical meaning and will have the most
profound effects on and ramifications for the future of the criminal Zionist
entity.
Second. The contemptible results of the meeting of Arab foreign ministers
amounted to a stab at the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon and showed
once again to what depths of decay, collusion, and submission some Arab
rulers have sunk in compliance with the dictates of the American
administration, pursuing policies that are in total contradiction with the
interests of their peoples and the supreme interests of the Arab Nation.The
inability of the Arab foreign ministers to take a clear stance in support of
the resistance and to take practical measures to stop the Zionist aggression
against Lebanon and Palestine demonstrate to what an extent the official
Arab regimes have fallen into ruin and collapse.
Third. The Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine calls on the Arab masses and their vital popular forces, it calls
on the trade unions and federations to shoulder their responsibility and
duty in defending Lebanon and Palestine and in going out in demonstrations
and all forms of popular activity to pressure the Arab governments and to
give all forms of support and assistance to the Lebanese and Palestinian
peoples and their heroic resistance movements in defiance of the
American-Zionist plan for the region.
Fourth. The blows of the heroic resistance in Lebanon and Palestine have
placed the Zionist entity in a deep dilemma and have created new equations.
Therefore Israel is trying to export its crisis by attempting to flee
forward and make Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran responsible for what
is going on, even though everyone near and far is well aware that what is
going on is an American-Israeli plan aimed at subjugating the region, an
attempt to put it under their complete control. This is what explains the
intensification and escalation of pressure on steadfast Syria and Iran,
which constitute a mighty barrier in the face of such hostile plans.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine offers its salute and
expresses its admiration for the fighters of resistant Hizballah and the
steadfast people of Lebanon. It declares that it stands beside them will all
its energy in the confrontation with the brutal, barbaric enemy, and it
reaffirms its pledge to continue the struggle and resistance until all the
goals for which legions of martyrs have sacrificed themselves have been
achieved.
Greetings to the people of Lebanon and their heroic resistance!
Greetings to the people of Palestine and their legendary steadfastness!
Freedom for the prisoners and detainees in the dungeons of the occupation!
Glory to the martyrs! Victory belongs to the peoples in battle for freedom!
17 July 2006
Translated by Muhammad Abu Nasr
Arabic original