<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<header class="post-header title-container fix">
<div class="title">
<h1 class="posttitle"><a
href="http://pflp.ps/english/2014/08/06/pflp-praises-direct-actions-for-palestine-and-urges-further-escalation/"
class="entry-title" rel="bookmark" title="PFLP praises
direct actions for Palestine and urges further escalation">PFLP
praises direct actions for Palestine and urges further
escalation</a></h1>
<div class="postdata fix"> </div>
</div>
<div class="date"><span class="month">Aug</span> <span
class="day">06</span><span class="year">, 2014<br>
<b><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pflp.ps/english/2014/08/06/pflp-praises-direct-actions-for-palestine-and-urges-further-escalation/">http://pflp.ps/english/2014/08/06/pflp-praises-direct-actions-for-palestine-and-urges-further-escalation/</a></small></small></b><br>
</span></div>
</header>
<span class="post-format-icon"> </span>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415 863.9977
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.freedomarchives.org">www.freedomarchives.org</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>