From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Antiimperialist Camp News Reply-To: "Antiimperialist Camp News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:01:43 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Support the new Intifada! Call for a permanent international coalition in support of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination ********************************************************************** We invite all organisations, associations or individuals who are interested to support this call to get in contact with us as soon as possible! ********************************************************************** The Zionist occupation forces are carrying on their massacre against the Palestinian people. The only crime the Palestinians have committed is insisting on their most elementary human right, the right to self-determination against the colonial aggressor. In fact it is a struggle David against Goliath where the Palestinians defend themselves with stones and rifles against the most sophisticated weaponry such as tanks, helicopter gunships and even airplanes being cowardly applied against civilians. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed so far, many of them babies and children, by both the army and the fascist settlers. And the death toll keeps on rising. Tens of thousands have been wounded – often done so deliberately that they will stay handicapped for all their life. For ten years the Palestinians have been hoping for a lasting peace with Israel and have done everything possible for it. Their leadership even accepted the most unfavourable conditions. While they recognised Israel and thus also sanctioned the Zionist conquest of Palestinian land they did not even obtain the implementation of the UN resolution 424 in return, which stipulates the full Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian territories West Bank and Gaza, occupied in 1967. All those concessions to the aggressor have been proved to be in vain. Looking back it becomes clear that Israel has never been striving for peace. Jewish settlement in the occupied territories has neither been stopped nor decreased but even accelerated. The destruction of Palestinian houses and the robbery of land is being carried out relentlessly. Palestinian agricultural land is deliberately destroyed and the economy is further strangled by repeatedly sealing off the occupied territories. The Palestinian water share is still decreasing, and while the settlers are sprinkling their greens gardens while Palestinians do not even have sufficient drinking water. The occupied territories have been fragmented by military streets and installations, which means unprecedented obstacles to move freely from one place to another and especially to Jerusalem. This is not the behaviour of someone who wants peace. Israel has always pursued the completion of the Zionist occupation of entire Palestine by all means including the preparation for war. The new Intifada is the signal of the Palestinian people that they are no longer willing to accept a faked peace which in reality is only a cover for their ongoing extinction as a nation. It is the signal of the new beginning of the liberation struggle. At the same time the Intifada is an appeal for the necessary international solidarity in order to win David’s struggle against Goliath. All the popular, democratic and anti-imperialist forces of the world are called upon to support the just struggle of the Palestinian people against the Zionist occupation and their imperialist masters in the West. The battle fought in Palestine is the battle of us all. Only together we can defy our common enemy – imperialism. Therefore we call for the formation of a permanent international coalition of all forces supporting the Palestinian cause with following basic demands: Stop the massacre in Palestine – support the Intifada! Immediate withdrawal of the Zionist occupation troops! Right to return for all Palestinian refugees! For the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination including the right to constitute an independent and sovereign state with Jerusalem as capital! The constitutive meeting of the International Solidarity Coalition for Palestine will take place in the frame of the Anti-imperialist Camp in Assisi, Italy, scheduled for July 28 to August 5, 2001. Anti-imperialist Camp June 2001 Supporters: Addammeer (Association for the Support of Political Prisoners in Palestine) The Anti-Imperialist Camp ************************************ Antiimperialist Camp PF 23, A-1040 Vienna, Austria Tel&Fax +43 1 504 00 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.antiimperialista.com/en ************************************ _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
