------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 19, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper ------------------------- "REBELLION AGAINST U.S. ISRAELI TERROR IS JUSTIFIED" -- Sara Flounders [Excerpts from the speech by Sara Flounders of the International Action Center to the April 7 Palestinian Right of Return demonstration in New York City] Last November I had the honor to travel to Palestine with a delegation from the International Action Center and witness this heroic Intifada. Standing atop a roof in Ramallah we watched as Apache helicopter gunships--horrific weapons supplied to the Israelis by the United States government-- fired rockets and shells at civilian neighborhoods, destroying homes and offices. Today I look around and can read on so many hundreds of placards the slogan, "USA Stop Funding Israeli Terrorism." This slogan goes right to the heart of the relationship between the U.S. government and Israeli terror. Last week U.S. President George Bush was embracing the war criminal Ariel Sharon. And while he embraced Sharon he demanded that the Palestinian people "stop the violence." In Gaza I saw Israeli tanks fire rounds of shells at youths armed only with stones. This terror force has bulldozed thousands of homes, uprooted tens of thousands of olive trees and orange trees. It has placed Palestinian cities and towns under a total lockdown. Bush really means "stop the resistance" to Israeli terror and bow down to colonial domination. President Bush's embrace of Sharon in Washington and the U.S. veto at the United Nations confirmed once again 52 years of total political, diplomatic, military and financial support by the United States to the State of Israel. It is an admission to the world that neither justice nor peace is on the U.S. agenda. U.S. domination of the entire Middle East feeds on instability, war and crisis. U.S. policy is completely bankrupt and incapable of resolving any social problem. No peace is possible in Palestine until the totally justified demands of the Palestinian people for a real state on contiguous territory, with Jerusalem as its capital and with the right to return for the almost 5 million Palestinian refugees and in the Diaspora, is a reality. - END - (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workers.org) ------------------ This message is sent to you by Workers World News Service. To subscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
