From: "Action Center" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:20:18 -0400 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IAC] ABU ALI MUSTAFA'S ASSASSINATION CONDEMNED International Action Center 1247 E St. SE, Washington, DC 20003 � 202-543-2777 � [EMAIL PROTECTED] � www.iacenter.org International Action Center Condemns �U.S./Israeli Assassination of Palestinian Leader Abu Ali Mustafa,� Demands End to U.S. Arming and Funding of Israel The International Action Center (IAC) condemns in the strongest possible terms the murder of Palestinian leader Abu Ali Mustafa, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and expresses our deepest sympathy to his family and to the Palestinian people. Abu Ali Mustafa�s life is a shining example of great courage and unbreakable determination to achieve liberation for the Palestinian people. His death is a heavy blow to his family, his organization and to the Palestinian movement. The huge manifestations of anger and grief in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Palestine and in other parts of the world, are powerful testimony to the popular esteem for this historic leader. �The vicious and cowardly murder of Abu Ali Mustafa, killed at his desk in Ramallah on Aug. 27, 2001, was an act of state-sponsored terrorism by the Israeli government of war criminal Ariel Sharon,� said Richard Becker, of the IAC. �This assassination, for which the Israeli government proudly takes credit, was carried out by means of U.S.-supplied missiles fired from a U.S.-supplied �Apache� helicopter, as has been the case in most of the more than 60 assassinations carried out by Israel over the past 11 months.� Becker was part of an IAC delegation, which traveled to the West Bank and Gaza in late October 2000, one month after the current Intifada (uprising) began. The IAC delegation met with Abu Ali Mustafa at that time, in the same room where he was killed yesterday. �Not only has the U.S. government supplied the high-tech weaponry of death to Israel, it has also provided the political/diplomatic support which enables Israel to carry out its policy of state murder,� said Sara Flounders, another member of the IAC delegation that met with Abu Ali Mustafa in October 2000. �Just a few weeks ago, Vice President Cheney said that �there is some justification� for Israel�s policy of assassination. The U.S., which sends Israel billions of dollars annually in military and economic aid, has given the Israeli occupiers the green light for its extreme brutality against the Palestinian people.� �The U.S. bears responsibility for the murder of Abu Ali Mustafa and more than 550 other Palestinians killed since the new Intifada began in Sept. 2000,� Flounders continued. �The United States government is also responsible for the suppression of the Palestinian people, for the denial of their right to self-determination. �While U.S. government officials never tire of hypocritically preaching to the world about �terrorism,�� said Becker, �the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa demonstrates once again this simple fact: The number one terrorist in the Middle East today is U.S. imperialism, which, directly or through its surrogate regimes, has slaughtered millions of people, from Iran to Iraq to Palestine and more, in its relentless quest to subjugate this key strategic region. �The assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa was another grave violation of international and U.S. law,� stated Flounders. �U.S.-supplied weaponry is supposedly to be used only for �defensive� purposes. But neither U.S. government officials nor the corporate media are likely to address this issue. �Over the past half-century, Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, driven hundreds of thousands into exile, subjected hundreds of thousands more to torture, imprisonment, homelessness, deprivation and racist abuse,� said Becker. �The goal of U.S. and Israeli policy has been not only to defeat the Palestinians, but to destroy them as a people. This is nothing less than genocide. But the ruthless U.S./Israeli attempts to crush the Palestinians and erase their name from the world�s vocabulary have not succeeded and will not succeed. Nor will the despicable assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa diminish the people�s struggle � just the opposite.� �The International Action Center calls upon all who stand for justice to step up solidarity with the heroic Palestinian struggle,� said Flounders. �Our first demand must be an end to the U.S. arming and funding of Israel�s repression of the Palestinian people.� ABU ALI MUSTAFA PRESENTE! U.S. IMPERIALISM OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST -- PALESTINE WILL WIN! Aug. 28, 2001 _________________________________________________ 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 mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
