Weidt
30th June 2003, 23:32
The Political Bureau, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The State of Palestine, 29 June 2003.
Yes to the intifada and resistance as the choice of our people until the end of the occupation!
Masses of our heroic Palestinian people!
Heroic intifada and resistance fighters!
At this time, pressure in various forms and coming from various sources is on the rise. This pressure is aimed at containment of the intifada and the heroic resistance of our people to the Israeli occupation and aggression against our land, our people, our rights, and our national honor.
We in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, based on our responsible patriotic position, and mindful of the need for the unity of our people and in order to clearly address all of our Palestinian and Arab masses and all free and decent people and all fighters for justice and freedom, plainly state the following:
1. The Israeli occupation and aggression against our people constitute the ugliest and most repulsive form of systematic state terrorism. Zionist aggression and arrogance, the indiscriminate daily attacks on the children of our people, the killing off of all forms of life, including the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of trees and the bulldozing and expropriation of hundreds of thousands of dunams of cultivated fields, compel our people to resist this aggression, to defend their lives, their land, and their national rights.
2. The American Administration has intensified its efforts to contain the intifada and the Palestinian resistance struggle that have gone on for more than a thousand days now, in preparation for totally crushing them. This is in accordance with the repeated declarations of this administration to the effect that it seeks not only a halt of the resistance struggle; it wants the resistance organizations completely broken up, the resistance fighters hunted down, and the resistance movements completely finished off.
3. This American pressure is a part of the American plan to reorganize the region so as to make it serve American interests. This in turn means the consecration of the state of Israel as the central and decision-making state in this region of the world.
4. In the framework of this plan, the American Administration has worked for the benefit of Israel and in complete coordination with it, to put a stop to the achievements and the positive effects of the intifada, which have begun to afflict the Israeli enemy in all spheres – their security, politics, their economy, and their society. The intifada has compelled the American Administration and the government of the criminal Sharon to declare officially, openly, and for the first time in their history that a Palestinian state is a necessity for any solution or peaceful resolution.
Based on these facts, the Popular Front has worked and struggled with all its brothers and comrades in the Patriotic and Islamic action movements, with brothers in the Palestine Authority and the Palestinian Leadership, and with our Arab brothers. We have striven to give pride of place to the effort to continue the intifada and resistance, and to provide all possible types of support and assistance to our people that serve to strengthen our trust and that embody faithfulness to the martyrs, the wounded, the prisoners, and to all those who have made sacrifices among our great, heroic, and patiently persevering people.
The Popular Front affirms that the continuation of the intifada and the resistance, together with other forms of struggle, is the path to ridding our people of the occupation, to freeing the prisoners and detainees, and to the attainment of independence and the return. We will continue our efforts on all platforms and in all spheres for the continuation of the national dialogue with the aim of crystallizing the correct national position, and constructing a unified Palestinian institution on democratic bases so as to bring about the participation of everyone in political decision making and in following up on the implementation of decisions. We affirm this position of ours, even as we accept the principle of respect for various interpretations, in particular since some of the Patriotic and Islamic action movements have taken a position at variance with our position. We duly respect the initiative of our brother, President Abu Ammar [Yasir Arafat] who sent Brother Saeb Erekat to meet our comrade, the General Secretary Ahmad Saadat, to convey the viewpoint of President Abu Ammar. The Popular Front affirms to everyone that it will continue to be avid in its support of sound Palestinian national relations in order to deprive the enemy of any opportunity to transform the struggle against them into a battle among Palestinians on the Palestinian Street.
Long live the intifada and the resistance!
Glory to the martyrs! Freedom to the prisoners! Victory to our people!
Arabic original at:
http://www.pflp-palestine.org/pop/pop-29-06-2003.html
The State of Palestine, 29 June 2003.
Yes to the intifada and resistance as the choice of our people until the end of the occupation!
Masses of our heroic Palestinian people!
Heroic intifada and resistance fighters!
At this time, pressure in various forms and coming from various sources is on the rise. This pressure is aimed at containment of the intifada and the heroic resistance of our people to the Israeli occupation and aggression against our land, our people, our rights, and our national honor.
We in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, based on our responsible patriotic position, and mindful of the need for the unity of our people and in order to clearly address all of our Palestinian and Arab masses and all free and decent people and all fighters for justice and freedom, plainly state the following:
1. The Israeli occupation and aggression against our people constitute the ugliest and most repulsive form of systematic state terrorism. Zionist aggression and arrogance, the indiscriminate daily attacks on the children of our people, the killing off of all forms of life, including the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of trees and the bulldozing and expropriation of hundreds of thousands of dunams of cultivated fields, compel our people to resist this aggression, to defend their lives, their land, and their national rights.
2. The American Administration has intensified its efforts to contain the intifada and the Palestinian resistance struggle that have gone on for more than a thousand days now, in preparation for totally crushing them. This is in accordance with the repeated declarations of this administration to the effect that it seeks not only a halt of the resistance struggle; it wants the resistance organizations completely broken up, the resistance fighters hunted down, and the resistance movements completely finished off.
3. This American pressure is a part of the American plan to reorganize the region so as to make it serve American interests. This in turn means the consecration of the state of Israel as the central and decision-making state in this region of the world.
4. In the framework of this plan, the American Administration has worked for the benefit of Israel and in complete coordination with it, to put a stop to the achievements and the positive effects of the intifada, which have begun to afflict the Israeli enemy in all spheres – their security, politics, their economy, and their society. The intifada has compelled the American Administration and the government of the criminal Sharon to declare officially, openly, and for the first time in their history that a Palestinian state is a necessity for any solution or peaceful resolution.
Based on these facts, the Popular Front has worked and struggled with all its brothers and comrades in the Patriotic and Islamic action movements, with brothers in the Palestine Authority and the Palestinian Leadership, and with our Arab brothers. We have striven to give pride of place to the effort to continue the intifada and resistance, and to provide all possible types of support and assistance to our people that serve to strengthen our trust and that embody faithfulness to the martyrs, the wounded, the prisoners, and to all those who have made sacrifices among our great, heroic, and patiently persevering people.
The Popular Front affirms that the continuation of the intifada and the resistance, together with other forms of struggle, is the path to ridding our people of the occupation, to freeing the prisoners and detainees, and to the attainment of independence and the return. We will continue our efforts on all platforms and in all spheres for the continuation of the national dialogue with the aim of crystallizing the correct national position, and constructing a unified Palestinian institution on democratic bases so as to bring about the participation of everyone in political decision making and in following up on the implementation of decisions. We affirm this position of ours, even as we accept the principle of respect for various interpretations, in particular since some of the Patriotic and Islamic action movements have taken a position at variance with our position. We duly respect the initiative of our brother, President Abu Ammar [Yasir Arafat] who sent Brother Saeb Erekat to meet our comrade, the General Secretary Ahmad Saadat, to convey the viewpoint of President Abu Ammar. The Popular Front affirms to everyone that it will continue to be avid in its support of sound Palestinian national relations in order to deprive the enemy of any opportunity to transform the struggle against them into a battle among Palestinians on the Palestinian Street.
Long live the intifada and the resistance!
Glory to the martyrs! Freedom to the prisoners! Victory to our people!
Arabic original at:
http://www.pflp-palestine.org/pop/pop-29-06-2003.html