PFLP
3 January 2002 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine esteems and values the position taken by the European Union and its current President, the Spanish government, in rejecting the Israeli request to put the Popular Front on its list of terrorist organizations. The Popular Front also calls on the European Union to review the position it took on the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations, which it labeled as terrorist. The European Union has stood with the Palestinian cause. It took an active part in passing all the international resolutions that have condemned the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. It has rejected the "legitimacy" of Israel's settlement building, its expropriation of Palestinian land, its annexation of eastern Jerusalem. It has condemned the Israeli occupation's excesses in refusing to implement resolutions of international legitimacy, and practicing with the cold-blooded repression and killing of children, to the policy of individual and collective expulsions and assassinations, the demolition of houses, and bombing of our people's civil and social institutions. Because they have taken these positions - which we value - the countries in the European Union will not be deluded or deterred by the policy of the terrorist, racist government of Sharon from seeing the real and essential reason for the continuation of the cycle of violence in the Middle East region, which is none other than the continuation of the occupation and the policy of imposing that occupation by force, ignoring international law and all the documents and laws of international legitimacy. It is sufficient to understand this fact to see that all the organizations of the Palestinian people, since they are only exercising their right to resist the occupation - a right guaranteed them by the international legitimacy and derived from the United Nations Organization - are indeed wronged when they are described or listed as terrorist organizations. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian political organization that struggles against the Israeli occupation and for the liberation of its homeland and the freedom and independence of its people. Its political program is committed to working to implement the resolutions of international legality and to securing the United Nations as supervisor over and guarantor in the Palestine-Israeli conflict and the Arab Israeli conflict. At the same time, the Popular Front is a founding member organization of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legal representative of the Palestinian people, recognized by our people and by the United Nations. The Popular Front always seeks to develop and strengthen the special role of the European Union in the framework of the international role in the effort to compel Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian land and to respect and implement the international resolutions that give our people their right to return, to self determination, and to the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital, in order that security, peace and stability may be achieved throughout all the Middle East region, and so that the cycle of violence may be totally eliminated. The Political Bureau The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 3 January 2002. _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
