THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE ARE BEING MASSACRED AGAIN ISRAEL IS THE MURDERER For decades the heroic Palestinian people have paid the price of freedom with their blood and lives. All the Western imperialists and their collaborators in the region have slaughtered the Palestinian people, Israel most of all. However, no massacre can stop the struggle of the Palestinian people for independence and freedom. Up to the present, tens of thousands of Palestinian people have courageously faced death for the sake of an independent and free homeland. All the attacks against the Palestinian people are aimed at securing the hegemony of US imperialism in the region. Israeli Zionism, which is a battering ram for US imperialism in the region, is continuing its massacres before the eyes of the entire world. For decades, nothing changed: the Palestinian people were slaughtered, their houses levelled to the ground. The identities of the murderers were always the same: Israel and imperialism. The globalisation of imperialism, the New World Order and so on are just so much sophistry: imperialism has never changed its spots. The massacres of today are a concrete example of this. Previously, at the time of the Sabra and Chatila massacre (1982), Ariel Sharon was the Defence Minister, and he is now the main protagonist in the provocation which led to the current massacre. On account of the Sabra and Chatila massacre, Israel was put on trial for the murder of over one thousand people. And again, Ehud Barak, who was the commander of Israeli units during the Sabra and Chatila massacre, is now Prime Minister of Israel. Israel is guided by murderers such as these, and it is they who carry out imperialism's massacres in the Middle East. THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD MUST BE AWAKENED THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD MUST PUT A STOP TO THESE TERRORIST MASSACRES In all the world's wars for freedom and independence, people's liberation movements have been assaulted by imperialism with the demagogy of "terrorism" - Panama, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, Yugoslavia and many other places are where imperialism has spilled blood. Imperialism has not had its fill of blood. In Iraq, a million children have been condemned to death by the denial of medicine, and now massacres are casually unleashed in Palestine. The world's peoples, who are only bystanders to these inhuman terrorist attacks, must react against these latest massacres of Palestinians. This massacre demands that an appropriate and swift response be undertaken. The only way to prevent yet greater massacres is for the world's peoples to offer support to the resistance. THE PEOPLES OF THE MIDDLE EAST CAN NEVER BE MADE TO SURRENDER No repression, massacre and terror by imperialism can make the peoples of the Middle East surrender. The freedom struggle of the Palestinian people developed and grew under the most trying conditions and numerous massacres in Lebanon like Tal al-Zaatar (1976), Sabra and Chatila and others. Today, once again, the Palestinian people resist with sticks, stones, their own blood and lives, standing up to tanks, artillery shells, bombs and lead bullets. THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE ARE NOT ALONE All the peoples of the Middle East and the world who defend honour, freedom and the future are on the side of the valiant Palestinian people. It is not a peaceful orchard for world imperialism and Zionism, nor will it be. Israel will pay a price for its massacres. MURDERER ISRAEL, LONG LIVE THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE October 3, 2000 DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI, Belgium
