[News] PFLP praises direct actions for Palestine and urges further escalation

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  PFLP praises direct actions for Palestine and urges further escalation
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Aug 06, 2014
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praises the direct 
actions taken by various groups around the world to shut down the 
operations of the war machine assaulting the Palestinian people, and 
calls for increasing and escalating these actions everywhere the 
occupier and its supporters are present.

The Front commended the multiple direct actions around the world 
targeting Israeli embassies, consulates, institutions and corporations, 
including the 2-day occupation of an Elbit arms factory outside 
Birmingham, UK; the blockade of the Israeli embassy in The Hague; the 
shutdown of El Al's ticket counter in Athens; popular de-shelving and 
removal of Israeli products in Ireland; and actions in New York, 
Chicago, San Francisco and Albuquerque in the United States at Israeli 
missions and consulates, Bank Leumi, Israel Discount Bank, Boeing, and 
Lockheed Martin, as well as a upcoming blockade of an Israeli ZIM Ship 
in Oakland, California. These actions come amid a flurry of die-ins and 
sit-ins in parliamentary and government offices across Europe, North 
America and around the world, and demonstrations in Paris and elsewhere 
taking the streets, defying police and government repression to stand 
with Palestine.

Comrade Khaled Barakat said, in a message to the solidarity movements 
with Palestine around the world, that "These actions are part of the 
Palestinian, Arab and international resistance to the Israeli massacres 
against our people. They illustrate that the people of the world are fed 
up with the images they have seen for the past month -- of children torn 
apart and innocent Palestinians besieged and bombarded. This has been 
the Palestinian reality for over 66 years -- and the people of the world 
are saying, 'Enough!' We want to see more of these direct actions, such 
as occupying Israeli and U.S. embassies and consulates, shutting down 
war profiteers and occupation corporations, and civil disobedience 
actions in cities around the world. These actions make clear that 
Palestinians are not alone, and that the people of the world are putting 
their own bodies on the line because they will no longer tolerate the 
illegitimate occupation state's actions."

Barakat emphasized that the Palestinian struggle is an international 
struggle; as Comrade Ghassan Kanafani said, "The Palestinian cause is 
not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, 
wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our 
era."

"The impact of these direct actions is felt in every Palestinian heart 
in Gaza. They are heard and felt by every Palestinian fighter in Gaza 
who emerges from the tunnels of resistance, that the people of 
conscience of the world stand with our just struggle for liberation," 
said Barakat.

Barakat noted that "while the colonial and settler colonial governments 
of the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and the European Union are engaged in an 
imperialist campaign to liquidate the Palestinian people and their 
cause, hundreds of thousands of people in these countries have taken to 
the streets to stand with Palestine and denounce the bloody complicity 
of these powers, the sponsors of the racist settler colonial project in 
Palestine. What drives individuals and groups to occupy an Israeli 
embassy or shut down an Israeli weapons factory is their deep sense of 
justice, and their outrage at the injustices inflicted upon the 
Palestinian people."

He saluted the support of the people of Latin America, as well as the 
official support extended by Latin American governments, including 
Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, El Salvador Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador. "The 
people of Latin America have fought colonialism and U.S. imperialism for 
too long to remain silent in the face of the U.S.-sponsored war machine 
occupying Palestine and massacring our people," said Barakat.

"The Palestinian resistance has always welcomed internationalists to 
fight among us, and to be an integral part of this struggle. There are 
countless internationals: fighters, leaders, artists, writers, 
journalists, who have done so and continue to do so, and we know them 
through their direct actions. They join the Palestinian struggle through 
their direct actions, in armed struggle, in demonstrations, in occupying 
embassies and war and occupation profiteers and putting themselves on 
the line alongside our people," Barakat said.

Barakat noted that "these direct actions send a significant message also 
to the occupation state: that the world is watching and the people are 
watching -- and that they are angry, and acting, and not merely 
observing. Occupying Israeli embassies, consulates, trade offices, and 
corporations everywhere in the world is an important part of boycotting 
and isolating the settler-colonial apartheid regime in Palestine. This 
kind of action is also reaching the occupier's media and public. They 
can no longer count on the silence or the ignorance of the people of the 
world -- today, after over 66 years of Zionist colonization and 
occupation in Palestine, it is quite clear that the world does know, and 
is speaking and acting to bring an end to the massacres and the crimes. 
The Israeli entity must learn that the world no longer can tolerate 
Zionism."

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