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TML Daily- Communist Party Of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) Cowards and Heroes Face to Face ======================== Take Up the Call of the Palestinian Martyrs! End the Occupation Now! - Sandra L. Smith* - This defining moment of history is bringing out the very worst and the very best which human civilization has given rise to: cowards and heroes face to face. The cowards are desperate, committing crimes against humanity which are made all the more heinous by attempts to justify them in the name of high ideals. The heroes emerge all the more resplendent as they inspire the downtrodden and oppressed and all peace- and justice-loving forces the world over to march on by taking the high road of civilization. The cowards are desperate forces who believe that holding a gun to Arafat's head will make him raise the white flag of surrender and that by so doing the entire Palestinian people will surrender. The actions of the war criminal Ariel Sharon and his U.S. backers show that they think that everyone is cowardly like they are. But Arafat represents a martyred people who have shown time and time and time again that it is a peace of the brave which is the call of the martyrs. Cowards and heroes face to face.This is not a time for the faint-hearted. It has never been clearer that only on the basis of the fundamental principles which humankind holds dear can a road to progress be opened in these dark times. The heroic resistance of the Palestinian people and the response of their leadership to the latest cowardly action by Ariel Sharon with U.S. backing has once again thrown the gauntlet to Arab leaders, to the European Union, China, Russia and all others in whose power it is to put a spoke in the wheels of the U.S. drive to plunge the world into the abyss of darkness. What will Arab leaders do now to defend their peace initiative and to defend the Palestinian people including their President? Will the leaders of the EU, China and Russia permit the legitimate authority of a people to be treated like a criminal? What will be their fate if they permit such things? Canada prides itself on providing the world with peacekeepers at the time of the Suez crisis in 1956 thereby providing the mechanism which ushered in the post-war arrangements which established that all nations, big or small, are equal. It put a spoke in the wheels of Britain and France which used Israel in their bid to stop Egypt from exercising its right to self-determination. The introduction of peacekeepers at that time contributed to making the UN Charter effective. Now, all over again, a concrete measure is needed to defend the UN Charter. But today Canada is paralyzed. It kowtows to the Zionist lobby, submits to the U.S. dictate and is caught in its own veneer of high ideals. Cowards and heroes face to face. The heroes are the peoples and those who take a courageous stand at decisive moments. Today the onus is on the peoples to force Israel to withdraw from all occupied territories and to end the occupation. Those who seek to put the onus for the violence on the Palestinian martyrs have no sense of shame. No matter how genuine their tears for the tragic loss of both Palestinian and Israel lives, no matter what their angst over the tragic cycle of violence we are witnessing today, only a resolute principled stand will open a path for progress in the Middle East peace talks. Who will rise to the occasion? Cowards and heroes face to face. The time to take a stand is now! Demand an immediate end to the occupation! Isolate the Sharon and U.S. cowards who are committing crimes against humanity and those who conciliate with them by providing them with the veneer of high ideals. Take up the call of the Palestinian martyrs! End the occupation now! * Sandra L. Smith is the National Leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
