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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; PRESS RELEASE FROM THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY YOUTH SECTION FOLLOWS. PLEASE FORWARD. ---------------------------------------------- Dear Friends, Yet again the fascist state of Israel has stepped up its attack on the Palestinian people. Early this morning more than 200 Israeli tanks moved into the West Bank town of Ramallah, the town where Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is being held prisoner and where a delegation of nine students from Sussex University (of which two are top SLP Youth activists Dan Glazebrook and Sukant Chandan) are now experiencing Zionist occupation for themselves. The BBC reported that four people were killed overnight in the Israeli onslaught on Ramallah, "but rescue teams say they cannot get to the central square in the town where there are believed to be other casualties". This report was confirmed by Sukant Chandan over the phone, who said that one woman and one child were among those killed, and that death toll is increasing by roughly one every hour. As he was speaking on the phone he could hear Israeli gunfire. He also reported that at least 25 people had been injured, and that ambulances were not allowed to go and help the injured. Sukant, who is staying with Dan and Zaki in a house on the outskirts of Ramallah, said that last night they witnessed first hand five tanks (made in the US) and one personnel carrier (made in Britain) rolling past the building in which they are staying. Arafat's compound was bombed extensively overnight, including the cell where PFLP leader comrade Ahmed Sadaat is being held by the Palestinian Authority - it is clear that the Israeli Defence Forces are trying to brutally murder this hero just as they murdered his predecessor Abu Ali Mustafa. Sukant said that, yesterday, the delegation from Sussex had met with a number of organisations and activists in Ramallah, and that there was complete unity in the Palestinian resistance: PFLP, DFLP, Fateh, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, Hamas, Islamic Jihad - all these groups have united for a common aim of fighting a people's war of the Palestinian people for independence and freedom, to overthrow Zionist oppression. Sukant reported that a common demand of all the groups was for release of all Intifada fighters by the Palestinian Authority, but also that everyone understood that Arafat and the Palestinian Authority had to make a show of arresting 'militants', that this was part of a diplomatic game that had to be played. Yasser Arafat has responded confidently in a telephone interview with al-Jazeera TV to the attacks on his headquarters, vowing that, no matter what, the Palestinians would never give up the fight for an independent state. He said that he hoped the Israelis would make him into a martyr like Abu Ali Mustafa, the murdered former leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. "I hope I will be a martyr in the Holy Land. I have chosen this path and if I fall, one day a Palestinian child will raise the Palestinian flag above our mosques and churches." Sukant said that the delegation from Sussex was very proud to be there in Ramallah, facing occupation and curfew with President Arafat and the Palestinian people united in Intifada. He said that this occupation will do nothing to end the conflict, only exacerbate it. The Palestinians have tried every method in their quest for freedom. They have tried peaceful methods - they offer an olive branch, and the Israelis' response is to uproot 50% of Palestine's olive trees! Now they have been left with no option but armed struggle, and even though they seem to be the weaker power in military terms, let us keep in mind the words of comrade Mao Zedong that imperialism is a paper tiger - it looks scary on paper and in statistical terms, but compared to the might of the people united it is nothing. Who would have thought that the Korean people would be able to win independence, defeating the armies of the US and 16 other countries? Who would have thought that the Vietnamese people would smash the US forces to pieces and send them home with their tails between their legs? As Paul Robeson said, "The people's will for liberation is stronger than atom bombs". Victory to the Intifada. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PEOPLES WAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Peoples_War ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A people who want to win independence cannot confine themselves to ordinary methods of warfare. Mass insurrections, revolutionary warfare, guerilla detachments everywhere - such is the only way." F Engels "A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past." Fidel Castro "There is no revolution without violence. Those who don't accept violence can cross out the word revolution from their dictionary." Malcolm X "Violence is the universal objective law of all thorough national liberation revolutions." General Vo Nguyen Giap "Without a Peoples Army the people have nothing" Mao Tse-Tung --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
