WW News Service Digest #312
1) Fw: Milosevic counter-attacks NATO's court
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2) WWP statement on the assassination of Comrade Abu Ali Mustafa
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STATEMENT ON THE ASSASSINATION OF COMRADE ABU ALI MUSTAFA
GENERAL SECRETARY, POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE
August 28, 2001 -- National Committee of Workers World Party
The National Committee and members of Workers World Party (U.S.) extend our
deepest condolences and
solidarity to the family and comrades of Mustafa Al-Zibri, widely known as
Abu Ali Mustafa, General Secretary
of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The life of Comrade Abu Ali Mustafa was one of heroic courage and relentless
determination to win liberation
for the Palestinians and all Arab people. His death is a heavy blow to his
family, his organization and to the
Palestinian cause. The massive outpourings of mourning and anger in Lebanon,
Jordan, Syria, inside occupied
Palestine and elsewhere, testify to the people's love and respect 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. 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.
Not only has the U.S. government supplied the high-tech weaponry of death to
Israel, it has also provided the
political/diplomatic support and cover for Israel to carry out its policy of
state murder. Just a few weeks ago,
Vice President Cheney expressed his "understanding" for Israel's policy of
assassination. The U.S., upon which
Israel depends for billions of dollars annually in military and economic
aid, has given the Israeli occupiers the
green light to carry out a policy of unlimited brutality against the
Palestinian people.
We hold the government of the United States responsible for the murder of
Abu Ali Mustafa and more than 550
other Palestinians killed since the new Intifada began in Sept. 2000. We
hold the government of the United
States responsible for the on-going 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," 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. 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 even touch this issue. The U.S. and Israel
have been pardoned, in advance, for any
violations of international legality by the U.S. "free press."
Over the past half-century, Israel--funded and supplied by the U.S.--has
killed tens of thousands of Palestinians,
driven hundreds of thousands into exile, subjected hundreds of thousands
more to systematic torture,
imprisonment, homelessness, deprivation and racist abuse. The aim of
U.S./Israeli policy has been not only to
defeat the Palestinians, but to destroy them as a people. There is a word
for this, and that word is 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.
Now is the time for working class and progressive forces around the world to
redouble active solidarity with the
heroic Palestinian people. The Palestinians are today in the vanguard of the
struggle against corporate
globalization and imperialist domination. The Palestinian struggle is truly
the struggle of all oppressed
humanity.
COMRADE ABU ALI MUSTAFA PRESENTE!
U.S. IMPERIALISM OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!
PALESTINE WILL WIN!
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Date: keskiviikko 29. elokuu 2001 00:52
Subject: [WW] WWP statement on the assassination of Comrade Abu Ali Mustafa
STATEMENT ON THE ASSASSINATION OF COMRADE ABU ALI MUSTAFA
GENERAL SECRETARY, POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE
August 28, 2001 -- National Committee of Workers World Party
The National Committee and members of Workers World Party (U.S.) extend our
deepest condolences and
solidarity to the family and comrades of Mustafa Al-Zibri, widely known as
Abu Ali Mustafa, General Secretary
of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The life of Comrade Abu Ali Mustafa was one of heroic courage and relentless
determination to win liberation
for the Palestinians and all Arab people. His death is a heavy blow to his
family, his organization and to the
Palestinian cause. The massive outpourings of mourning and anger in Lebanon,
Jordan, Syria, inside occupied
Palestine and elsewhere, testify to the people's love and respect 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. 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.
Not only has the U.S. government supplied the high-tech weaponry of death to
Israel, it has also provided the
political/diplomatic support and cover for Israel to carry out its policy of
state murder. Just a few weeks ago,
Vice President Cheney expressed his "understanding" for Israel's policy of
assassination. The U.S., upon which
Israel depends for billions of dollars annually in military and economic
aid, has given the Israeli occupiers the
green light to carry out a policy of unlimited brutality against the
Palestinian people.
We hold the government of the United States responsible for the murder of
Abu Ali Mustafa and more than 550
other Palestinians killed since the new Intifada began in Sept. 2000. We
hold the government of the United
States responsible for the on-going 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," 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. 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 even touch this issue. The U.S. and Israel
have been pardoned, in advance, for any
violations of international legality by the U.S. "free press."
Over the past half-century, Israel--funded and supplied by the U.S.--has
killed tens of thousands of Palestinians,
driven hundreds of thousands into exile, subjected hundreds of thousands
more to systematic torture,
imprisonment, homelessness, deprivation and racist abuse. The aim of
U.S./Israeli policy has been not only to
defeat the Palestinians, but to destroy them as a people. There is a word
for this, and that word is 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.
Now is the time for working class and progressive forces around the world to
redouble active solidarity with the
heroic Palestinian people. The Palestinians are today in the vanguard of the
struggle against corporate
globalization and imperialist domination. The Palestinian struggle is truly
the struggle of all oppressed
humanity.
COMRADE ABU ALI MUSTAFA PRESENTE!
U.S. IMPERIALISM OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST!
PALESTINE WILL WIN!
---------------------------------------
Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to:
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