[News] Aleida Guevara Advocates Greater Support for the Palestinian Cause

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Aleida Guevara Advocates Greater Support for the Palestinian Cause
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May 29, 2023


Aleida Guevara, daughter of the eternal Argentinean-Cuban commander Ernesto
Che Guevara, called on Monday in Lebanon for greater support for the cause
of the Palestinian people.

In the context of her participation in the event of the ambassadors of the
Palestinian return, the internationalist doctor questioned the silence of
the world in the face of the crimes against humanity committed against the
Palestinian population.

During her intervention in the morning session, she insisted on the need to
achieve unity and coordinate actions in all latitudes and in different
spaces to reach as many people as possible in order to defend the dignity
and integrity of the Palestinians.

On the occasion,  Aleida hoped to work as part of an expressed  human bloc
in pursuit of a common goal, the sovereignty, stability and development of
the people.

In her opinion, Palestine requires the solidarity of all as Che asked, in
the sense of living together with the people, sharing the daily reality and
facing their own lives side by side.

How many images pass through our conscience when we speak of this people,
how much abuse, how much injustice, how much impotence, he said.

Incidentally, Aleida Guevara spoke of the steadfastness and struggle of the
Palestinians in more than seven decades of Israeli occupation. In her
words, she defended a full-fledged Palestine as a free and sovereign
people, where their children grow up with peace and joy.

The speech endorsed the right of self determination for a nation owning its
lands and borders and in this line of thought signified the continuation of
the struggle until victory is achieved.

The daughter of the heroic guerrilla Che Guevara together with other
personalities from Bahrain, Spain, South Africa, Tunisia, India, Algeria
and Lebanon will receive in Beirut the distinction of Ambassadors of the
Palestinian cause with the aim of strengthening the defense of this people
for their independence, sovereignty and freedom.

The event, organized by the Global Campaign for the Right of Return of the
Palestinian People, was also attended by representatives from Chile,
Australia, France, Indonesia, Jordan, Switzerland, Syria, Venezuela, Iran,
Pakistan, Scotland, Kuwait, Argentina and Iraq.

The following is *Aleida Guevara’s full speech* at the act of solidarity
with the Palestinian cause held in Beirut, the Lebanese capital.

Dear comrades.

Brothers and sisters.

For me it is very difficult to talk about Palestine in a calm way, the
truth is that at this stage of life, it bothers me to talk about the Return
of Palestine, when we should be talking about the development of Palestine,
about the new projects for the construction of houses in its national
territory, about plans for the enrichment of its soils to make them more
fertile, about the projects of plans for the feeding of the Palestinian
people, in short, we should be talking in the middle of Palestinian land.

How many years of confrontations, how many years of suffering, how many
crimes against humanity committed against a people whose only crime was to
be forced to share part of their territory with another people who had
practically been wiped off the face of the earth and who gradually used
their wealth and international influence to displace them.

I feel very sorry for the loss of memory of an entire people, who
completely forgot the crimes committed against them for the simple fact of
being Jews and that today they practice them with total impunity on their
neighboring people.

Why do we still talk today about the return of Palestine, why have we not
been able to support more this brotherly people, why the world seems to be
deaf and blind to such a crime. What do we lack? Strength, we lack
strength, and to reach that necessary strength we need unity, to coordinate
actions in all latitudes, in all possible spaces, to reach the greatest
possible number of people, to touch their feelings, if we are not capable
of this, we will not be able to change the reality that day by day consumes
the joy of a people, their dignity and their integrity.

The Peruvian poet César Vallejo said that there was a body that was dying,
people were joining around it, but the body continued to die, until all
humanity was by its side and it was only than that the body reacted and
began to walk and that is what Palestine needs, that all of us are at its
side and that is the solidarity that Che asked us, not that which was
offered to a gladiator in the Roman circus, but to live with that people
their daily reality and face side by side their own lives.

This is my greatest wish, that as a human bloc we work towards a common
goal, the sovereignty, stability and development of the Palestinian people.

How many images pass through our conscience when we speak of this people,
how many outrages, how many injustices, how much impotence? For all those
who are not physically present, for the comrades unjustly imprisoned, for
those who mourn their loved ones, but remain firm and standing up for the
struggle, I commit myself.

For a Palestine in full capacity as a free and sovereign people, for a
Palestine where its children grow with tranquility and joy, for Palestine
as the owner of its lands and its borders, for that Palestine we will fight
until victory and we will win.

Source: Al Mayadeen
<https://espanol.almayadeen.net/news/politics/1707040/aleida-guevara-aboga-por-mayor-apoyo-a-la-causa-palestina>,
translation Resumen Latinoamericano – US
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