1) Call for a solidarity delegation to Palestine
2) Leader of Abnaa elBalad face 10 years Zionist prison
3) Iraqi puppet regime admits use of WMD against Falluja
4) Palestinian population exceeds Jewish population says U.S.


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1) Defend the Palestinian people and its right to resist!
Call for a solidarity delegation to Palestine

In September 2000, the second Intifada, a new uprising of the
Palestinian people against the Israeli occupation, broke out.
Its immediate cause had been a provocation by today’s Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. However, it was the
Palestinian’s people anger over the undelivered promises of
the Oslo peace treaty that exploded in this uprising.

Since then, the situation in Palestine has been aggravating.
Thousands have been killed, tens of thousands injured. Daily
life means permanent curfews, closures and state of
emergency, destruction of houses, schools and hospitals, land
and plantations. On the other hand, the Palestinians’ ongoing
resistance increasingly puts pressure on the Israeli
government.

In Europe, however, public opinion has been steadily shifting
from solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle
towards its condemnation. The European governments pay lip-
service to Israel demanding limitations to their military
operations whilst being heavily involved in mutually
beneficial arms trade. Since the US-regime has declared its
international “war on terror” following the attacks of
September 11, 2001, the legitimate Palestinian resistance
struggle is being increasingly considered as unmotivated
bloodthirsty terror on both the media and the political
level. It is, however, Bush’s war and Sharon’s military
offensive, the occupation in Palestine and in Iraq, that
means terror against the populations of the Middle East. The
Palestinians’ and Iraqis’ asymmetric struggle against a
powerful enemy, just as the fact that despite the
overwhelming asymmetry of forces resistance could not be
defeated, do convey hope and confidence not only to the
Palestinians, but to all oppressed peoples under this world
order.

The death of Yasser Arafat, historic leader of the
Palestinian liberation movement and president of the
Palestinian National Authority, leaves a vacuum of power. It
is not unlikely that the Israeli regime could take advantage
of this situation of uncertainty to launch a military
offensive against the Palestinian resistance in order to not
only deprive it of its best people, but to make a step
forward to its complete and physical destruction.

The Palestinian people have to face with a permanent military
aggression as well as with a political offensive against
their liberation struggle. For this reason, the Palestinian
people desperately need our support. It is imperative, given
the situation of permanent war and in particular of a
possible military offensive after Arafat’s death, to clearly
express our political solidarity with the Palestinian
resistance struggle. We call upon the anti-imperialist and
democratic movement to defend the Palestinian people, their
physical survival and political resistance struggle.

Against this background and with these objectives, an
international solidarity delegation will be travelling to
Palestine. The first part of the programme will include
meetings and discussions with representatives of political,
cultural and social resistance organisations both in the
occupied territories and within the Green Line. Moreover, the
delegation will meet with anti-zionist Israelis who suffer
from political repression in Israel. The second part of the
programme will consist of voluntary work in social
institutions to express the delegation’s solidarity with the
population. This will help participants to get to know and
understand the harsh conditions of daily life under military
occupation. It shall, moreover, contribute to the alleviation
of Palestinian hardship.

Austrian Arab Cultural Centre

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