Terrific statement by revolutionary Syrians in solidarity with Palestine (in Arabic and English, followed by list of signatures). [Helps us understand why Israel has *never* come even close to giving support to the Syrian uprising against Assad - in fact, one thing in the Mideast Israel and Iran agree on is the preservation of Assad's regime] https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSd66idEDra3s.../viewform <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd66idEDra3s-YVTQzQwnpDIJR0knsN1J1ubLejmLScob5l6w/viewform?fbclid=IwAR0WAvU_5Wu8lYGcXuhDXXyP3Zc_wvsXcIxTL5_KCk9EldsbzsRKuYoF80Y> >From every city, town and village in Syria, to our steadfast sisters and brothers in Sheikh Jarrah and the occupied neighborhoods of Jerusalem, Day after day, we have followed your struggle, witnessed your resistance in the face of injustices against you in Jerusalem, and shared your demands for justice and freedom, from afar. The borders that separate us, torment us, as they prevent us from standing alongside you in solidarity as your land is expropriated and your communities forced from their lands and homes. So, we send you this message in the hope that it may touch your hearts, even if just a little, as your pain and injustice ignites our hearts. In your revolution, we saw our revolution, and in your steadfastness, our steadfastness, and in your displacement, our displacement. And because we truly understand what it means to be displaced, and like you, to face brutality and arbitrary and unjust arrests, which we have faced since our revolution erupted, as you have faced under the hand of Israel, we stand with you. The Palestinian people planted the seeds of their cause throughout their land, and in doing so defined political resistance and awakened the moral consciousness of all Syrians. Your decades-long struggle against injustice inspired Syrians and our revolution against injustice, and your struggle to liberate your occupied lands from Israel, inspires our struggle to liberate the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967. >From Damascus, Idlib, Aleppo, Hasaka, Daraa and Quneitra, Homs, Lattakia and Hama, from Sweida, Raqqa and Deir Ezzor, from our refugee camps, and our diaspora in Arab and Western countries, from inside Syria and outside Syria, we stand in solidarity with you, until an end to the Israeli occupation and the liberation of occupied lands. And as a fellow oppressed people, Syrians stand with your just cause and all its moral and humanitarian justifications, in the face of the occupying Israeli entity, and regimes attempting to normalize with it. We, too, are exhausted by war, diaspora, asylum and detention, but we do not and will not surrender! In your liberation from the occupation, we see our liberation from tyranny. In your chants, we hear the chants of our martyrs. In your "Jannah', Jannah" song, we hear the songs of our revolution. In your resistance and steadfastness, we draw hope and resolve. Greetings, from the sons and daughters of Syria
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