From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Freedom for Saadat Intifada instead of collaboration! At the evening of 15th January, 2002, Arafat�s authority bend once again to Sharon�s blackmails and arrested the leader of the PFLP, Ahmad Saadat. This is unprecedented in Palestinian history: Saadat is the leader of the second largest faction in the PLO, the organization from which Arafat derives his legitimacy as a speaker in the name of the Palestinian people. For weeks the government of Sharon has been practicing a policy of excessive terror against Palestinian civilians. Assassinations, bombardments of civilian infrastructure, destruction of farms and houses and extralegal executions of political activists have become part of the daily life in the Palestinian territories. Arafat himself is practically under house arrest in Ramallah, and, as Sharon said, can only leave if he undertakes �practical acts against terrorism�. Despite the arrests of Palestinian militants ordered by Arafat and despite of the repressive attitude of the PNA�s police against protesting Palestinians, Israel claims a �hundred percent� engagement. After the arrests of the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Israel requested the same for PFLP leaders, which after Israel had assassinated their leader Abu Ali Mustafa claimed responsibility for the execution of the racist Israeli tourism minister Rehbaam Zeevi. Arafat, who has not addressed his people since the beginning of Intifada and has ignored all demands for a united national leadership of the Intifada in form of an emergency executive, declared in his first speech an unilateral and unconditional cease-fire. However, this did not have any effect on Israeli politics. He spoke in the name of �Palestinian unity� and �the highest national interests�, represented by Arafat himself as the chairman of the PLO. But it was merely Arafat on his own who decided whether this decision fits to �national interests� and �international circumstances�. He overruled all Palestinian institutions � as he did when signing the Oslo agreement. He degraded himself to a local collaborator of the Israeli occupation (which actually thanked him by calling him a liar!) and therefore he is opposing the Intifada and the most elementary demands of the Arab and Palestinian people. The arrest of Saadat and other resistance leaders is a dangerous development, which can mean a further step towards a Palestinian civil war. All Palestinian resistance organizations are trying to avoid this by all possible means despite steady humiliations by the PNA. The Palestinian movement has been betrayed again by its own leadership, which should be held responsible for this significant setback. We strongly denounce the repressive measures of the Palestinian Authority and demand an immediate release of comrade Saadat and all arrested Palestinians resistance fighters, who did and do nothing but defending their people against the Zionist occupation. Freedom for Ahmad Saadat and all Palestinian resistance fighters! The Palestinian Institutions must grant democratic rights of the Palestinian people, particularly the right to resist! No to a collaboration authority � for a united resistance front! Down with Zionist occupation! Long live the fight for a free democratic Palestine, where all humans can live equally! ************************************ Antiimperialist Camp PF 23, A-1040 Vienna, Austria Tel&Fax +43 1 504 00 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.antiimperialista.com/en ************************************ _________________________________________________ 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] ______________
