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Message of Condolence to the Palestinian
People on the Death of Yasser Arafat
By the International League of Peoples’ Struggle –
Philippines
Chapter
Quezon City, Philippines
Nov.
12, 2004
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The ILPS-Philippines
Chapter extends its deepest condolence to the Palestinian people who have
lost their long time-leader – Yasser Arafat.
Yasser Arafat was a
symbol of the Palestinian people’s struggle against U.S.-Israeli Zionism
which had wanted to seize the Palestinian territories for their dominance
and rule.
Arafat and his
people’s struggle exposed the systematic brutality of U.S.-Israeli
Zionism which violated all tenets of international, humanitarian and
human rights laws against the Palestinian people.
Hundreds of thousands
of Palestinians have been massacred, mostly women and innocent children
and elderly, hundreds more summarily executed, gunned down brutally or
tortured beyond their endurance, scores blown up to pieces, and other
revolutionary leaders assassinated.
U.S.-Israeli
Zionism’s violence goes unabated against the Palestinian people.
Thousands of
Palestinian homes have been demolished in the name of U.S.-Israeli Zionism
desire for control of the Middle East, a region that not only abounds
with billions of
barrels of oil and other resources, but is populated by a people who are
against U.S.-Zionism rule.
Furthermore,
U.S.-Israeli Zionism has constructed separation walls that would annex
precious Palestinian resources to the Israeli side, deny access to medical
care and other services meant for Palestinians, confiscated peasants’
lands and used these for Israeli-Zionist settlements, and many more
inhumanities against the Palestinian people.
Yasser Arafat was
demonized because he led his people in the national struggle against
U.S.-Israeli Zionism for more than 40 years. In his younger years, he was
a guerrilla freedom fighter. Later on, he would receive the Nobel Peace
Prize.
As the torch is now
passed to the next leader of the Palestinian people, the ILPS Philippines
Chapter hopes that this leadership would continue to fight for the
Palestinian people’s continuing struggle for the right to
self-determination and the right to return to their homeland.
Solidarity to the Palestinian Struggle for
Home and Land!
Free Palestine Now!
Bring Down the Apartheid Wall Now!
End Israeli Occupation of Palestine!
Peace for Palestine!
Bulatlat
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