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11 December 2002 On the Occasion of the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of the Launch of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. On the eleventh of December 1967, from the heart of the sufferings of the heroic Palestinian Arab people, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine emerged as one of the most dramatic and necessary responses to the defeat of the fifth of June. Today we light the thirty-fifth candle on the path of its triumphant and ongoing struggle for the liberation of Palestine. Over these thirty-five years it has been an honor for the Popular Front to shed waterfalls of blood and to offer caravans of martyrs and prisoners in defense of the most just and most sacred cause of this age. The Popular Front has affirmed through its glorious militant march that it is a party of martyrs and of leaders willing to sacrifice their dearest possessions for their homeland and people. The blood of the heroic leaders - the Guevara of Gaza, Ghassan Kanafani, Basil al-Kubaysi, and Abu Amal has drenched the soil of Palestine, affirming the determination of the people of Palestine to continue the struggle and resistance until all Palestinian national rights have been reclaimed. At every point in the continuing intifada, the Popular Front has adorned the firmament of Palestine with constellations of martyred leaders. Chief among them is the knight of the martyrs, the great Palestinian and Arab leader Abu Ali Mustafa, the former General Secretary of the Front. The Front also has bid farewell to the mass leader Comrade Ribhi Haddad who defended his heroic city: proud, steadfast, defiant Nablus. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine affirms to the masses of our Palestinian people and our Arab Nation that it will remain faithful to its Palestinian and Arab national principles, values, and aims as they were embodied by the first leaders of our party, in the first place by our leader and founder Dr. George Habash and the outstanding martyr Abu Ali Mustafa. On this occasion that is dear to our hearts and to the hearts of all those struggling for freedom, democracy, and social progress in our Arab Nation and around the world, the PFLP affirms that it will continue its just struggle using every militant technique at its disposal. It affirms its intent to continue the march of the intifada and the resistance and to defeat the continuing American-Israeli efforts against our people. It will use every means to defend and strengthen our militant national body. We appeal to all honorable people in our Arab Nation and throughout the world to continue to support our just and legitimate struggle against the occupation and its exterminationist plans to uproot our people. The Palestinian cause and Arab national security now face immense dangers and enormous challenges as the American Administration prepares for total aggression against fraternal Iraq, using the least credible pretexts and justifications, aiming to take possession of Iraq's resources and oil and to gain complete control of the region in an attempt to eliminate the Palestinian cause and the national rights of the Palestinian people. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine appeals to the Arab Nation and the Islamic Community, their peoples and governments, to reject the plans of aggression against Iraq. It affirms its stance entirely on the side of Iraq in its confrontation with the current U.S. policy of aggression and arrogance, for this policy cannot be separated from Washington¹s unflagging support for the Zionist Entity, as evidently and purposefully contrary to the interests of the Arab Nation. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine flatly and unequivocally rejects what is called the American "Road Map" that aims to eliminate Palestinian national rights. It reiterates its firm condemnation and total rejection of the so-called Sari Nuseibeh Document that openly and shamelessly calls for abandoning the right of Palestinian refugees to return, and which abandons the City of Jerusalem. The PFLP calls on our people to resist the policy of concessions and suspicious calls to halt the intifada and armed operations against the Zionist occupation. We call on the masses of our people and on all of their patriotic and Islamic forces, on our Arab Nation, and all free people of the world to raise their voices loudly for the release of the militant Ahmad Saadat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose incarceration is no longer acceptable by any legal or moral standard whatsoever, particularly after the decision of the Palestinian Supreme Court calling for his release. We call on all the forces supporting welfare, freedom, and progress in the world to raise their voices to join together in demanding the release of more than nine thousand captives in Zionist prisons, in particular the militant Abd al-Rahim Mallouh, Deputy General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine renews its call for the reordering of the Palestinian agenda by way of a comprehensive Palestinian national dialog including all Palestinian forces without exception in order to regain Palestinian national unity and to rebuild the institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization along more dynamic political and organizational lines. The document considered in the Gaza discussions forms a promising basis for this objective, as well as the need to guarantee the fruition of comprehensive Palestinian national unity and to guarantee the construction of a real democratic civil society that puts an end to all forms of corruption and despotism. On the thirty-fifth anniversary of the launch of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine we renew our pledge and commitment that we will remain faithful to the blood of the martyrs Ra'id Nazzal, Muhannad Ismail Mahdi, Muhammad Saadat, Ribhi Haddad, Wadi Haddad, Abu Amal, Khalil al-Wazir, Fathi al-Shiqaqi, Abu Ali Mustafa, and to all the martyrs of our Palestinian people and Arab Nation. The banner will never fall and the intifada and resistance will continue until the last Israeli soldier has been expelled from the soil of our country. **** 11 December 2002 Statement by the founder, Comrade Dr. George Habash on the 35th Anniversary of the Launch of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. I come before you on the occasion of the 35th Anniversary of the launch of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a patriotic, democratic, and progressive detachment that has, with its long struggle, written the finest verses of heroism, sacrifice, and vigor. Over the course of its three and a half decades of struggle, it has affirmed its resolve to cling to the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people while displaying the greatest determination to continue the intifada and resistance struggle until victory and the return [of exiled Palestinians]. I address you on this glorious occasion and send you and to the people of the intifada my truest, warmest, most heartfelt greetings - to you and to the heroic activists, to all the patriots, free people and progressives in our Arab Nation and the world. In particular, I greet our militant comrade, the General Secretary of the Popular Front Ahmad Saadat who languishes with his beloved comrades in a prison of the Palestine Authority in Jericho under Anglo-American supervision and control. I say to you today with the inspiration of this occasion that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine will continue to have a free will, and a free resolve that cannot be broken. It will continue its militant march until victory and liberation. The difficulties linked to the imprisonment of the General Secretary and his deputy and of dozens of leaders and hundreds of cadres and members, and the sacrifices of one constellation of martyrs after another, are finally destined to increase the Front¹s firmness and strength. Heroic masses of our people, the anniversary of the launch of the PFLP comes this year in the shadow of gathering challenges on many levels, and of the increase and worsening of the threats against many quarters from the circle of American-Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people and their glorious intifada, and against the steadfast, noble Iraqi people. This is occurring in the shadow of unlimited political, financial, and military support by American imperialism to the Zionist enemy, and in the shadow of its great and increasing pressures upon the official Arab regimes in the framework of what it calls a battle against terrorism. Here we must say, unfortunately, that American political pressure has found fertile ground in the Arab world because of the state of impotence in which the official Arab regimes find themselves. I am certain that if America succeeds in waging its treacherous aggression against noble Iraq that this aggression will not stop until it has seized total control over Iraq's oil and the oil of the entire region, until it has subjugated the whole Arab Nation, suppressed the Palestinian people's intifada, and aborted the whole effort at Arab revival. It will reinforce the Zionist deluge of the region economically and culturally, enabling the further imposition of its hegemony throughout the region. Here the legitimate question arises, What will Sharon do? Will he implement the plans to ³transfer² the Palestinians out of Palestine? Will he implement the ³Road Map² that is based on the political vision of George Bush and has received the blessings of the Quadripartite Committee and internationally? Or what? Or will he simply return to the long-term "temporary plan" that is based on establishing the facade of a Palestinian state on 40 percent of the West Bank and 75 percent of the Gaza Strip according to purely Sharonist specifications and criteria, and without the remotest connection to the true rights, interests, and goals of the Palestinian people? Whichever path he takes, the plans of Sharon will not succeed. I say this, deeply understanding that the current balance of forces is overwhelmingly in favor of the enemy camp. But Palestinian steadfastness backed by the Arab National depths will enable the intifada and the resistance struggle to attain the goals of freedom and independence. Therefore, there is no alternative to the continuation of the intifada and resistance. They lift the Palestinian national liberation struggle upwards. They must return to their true course and true identity. Here I appeal to all leaders of groups dedicated to patriotic action, and affirm to them the need to understand that for the intifada to attain its supreme national goals, it must fly on two wings one wing of escalating the resistance struggle against the occupation and the other wing of putting the Palestinian house in order. The responsibility here falls especially on our brothers in Fateh and on their militant and mujahid vanguard to stand with others in living up to this revolutionary national task, to address the need to regin in destructive criticism of the intifada, to reject any inclination to seek harmony with American-Israeli plans. We are in favor of the kind of constructive criticism that promotes national unity and paves the way toward freedom and independence. The current Palestinian political situation, in spite of all its difficulties and complications, demands that we take a serious look at the factors that urge us to surrender, at the calls of frustration that urge us to give up in despair. These arise from divisions and splits within the Palestinian condition as a result of the intensity of the unjust war being waged against the masses of our people. We must understand that the American Administration is structurally afflicted with the madness of being the greatest (most powerful) empire, and this affliction gives shape to all of the many forms of American imperialism. The events of 11 September served simply to increase the barbarism of the current American administration and to increase the extent to which its policy coincides with the policy of the terrorist, racist Zionist entity, with the purpose to rationalize a strike against Iraq and the intifada. Because of this, the region faces tempestuous political and military storms that could strike at the end of this current winter season or the beginning of next spring. They bring with them enormous and dangerous demands. It is therefore incumbent upon the forces and organizations of the Palestinian movement to undertake a comprehensive, bold, and critical review of the current stage of the Palestinian national struggle by way of a comprehensive national dialogue. A strategy is needed for the resistance. The current unity of the forces in the field must be deepened and reinforced. The reality of the current international situation in the shadow of American terror shows that there can be no protection for Arab interests, and neither can occupied territories be won back unless the solidarity of the Arab peoples with the intifada is redoubled to counteract America¹s arrogance, steeped in its lust for power and appetite for tyranny. All the vital and noble forces in this Arab Nation, with their different orientations and political and ideological inspirations, are called on to take up this role. Honor cannot be protected, rights cannot be defended, and the future cannot be built unless we understand how to confront the challenges and demands of the present. I believe that these fundamentally can be attained by our unity, the source of our strength, and by coordinating our efforts and seriously cooperating with all the militants, progressives, and honorable people around the world. Finally, I am deeply convinced that the American-Zionist policy will never succeed in falsifying the realities of Arab geography and history. The Palestinian, who has resisted the Zionist enterprise for more than a century, and has resisted Israelization for 54 years inside the borders of the part of Palestine occupied in 1948, will never give up his national dreams, his goals of return and self-determination. On this glorious anniversary, I extend my profound greetings to the prisoners in the jails of the Zionist occupation, esteeming their sufferings, sacrifices, and tortures and those of their loved ones, knowing that they are the heroes of freedom and independence. I extend my greetings to the mothers and families of the martyrs and the injured from whose wounds blood has flowed on the path of freedom and independence. Dr. George Habash, Founder of the Arab Nationalists' Movement, and of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. _________________________________________________ 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katsauksia suomeksi: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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