WORKERS WORLD PARTY STATEMENT
U.S. is behind Israel's policy of assassination
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The following message of condolence and solidarity
was sent on Aug. 28 to the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine from Workers World Party. |
The National Committee and members of Workers World Party
(U.S.) extend our deepest condolences and solidarity to the
family and comrades of Mustafa Al-Zibri, widely known as Abu
Ali Mustafa, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The life of Comrade Abu Ali Mustafa was one of heroic
courage and relentless determination to win liberation for the
Palestinians and all Arab people. His death is a heavy blow to
his family, his organization and to the Palestinian cause. The
massive outpourings of mourning and anger in Lebanon, Jordan,
Syria, inside occupied Palestine and elsewhere, testify to the
people's love and respect for this historic leader.
The vicious and cowardly murder of Abu Ali Mustafa, killed
at his desk in Ramallah on Aug. 27, 2001, was an act of
state-sponsored terrorism by the Israeli government of war
criminal Ariel Sharon. This assassination, for which the
Israeli government proudly takes credit, was carried out by
means of U.S.-supplied missiles fired from a U.S.-supplied
"Apache" helicopter, as has been the case in most of the more
than 60 assassinations carried out by Israel over the past 11
months.
Not only has the U.S. government supplied the high-tech
weaponry of death to Israel, it has also provided the
political/diplomatic support and cover for Israel to carry out
its policy of state murder. Just a few weeks ago, Vice
President Richard Cheney expressed his "understanding" of
Israel's policy of assassination. The United States, upon which
Israel depends for billions of dollars annually in military and
economic aid, has given the Israeli occupiers the green light
to carry out a policy of unlimited brutality against the
Palestinian people.
We hold the government of the United States responsible for
the murder of Abu Ali Mustafa and more than 550 other
Palestinians killed since the new Intifada began in September
2000. We hold the government of the United States responsible
for the on-going suppression of the Palestinian people, for the
denial of their right to self-determination.
While U.S. government officials never tire of hypocritically
preaching to the world about "terrorism," the assassination of
Abu Ali Mustafa demonstrates once again this simple fact: The
number one terrorist in the Middle East today is U.S.
imperialism. Directly, or through its surrogate regimes, U.S.
imperialism has slaughtered millions of people, from Iran to
Iraq to Palestine and more, in its relentless quest to
subjugate this key strategic region.
The assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa was another grave
violation of international and U.S. law. U.S.-supplied weaponry
is supposedly to be used only for "defensive" purposes. But
neither U.S. government officials nor the corporate media are
likely to even touch this issue. The U.S. "free press" has
pardoned the United States and Israel in advance for any
violations of international legality.
Over the past half-century, Israel--funded and supplied by
the United States--has killed tens of thousands of
Palestinians, driven hundreds of thousands into exile,
subjected hundreds of thousands more to systematic torture,
imprisonment, homelessness, deprivation and racist abuse. The
aim of U.S./Israeli policy has been not only to defeat the
Palestinians, but to destroy them as a people. There is a word
for this, and that word is genocide.
But the ruthless U.S./Israeli attempts to crush the
Palestinians and erase their name from the world's vocabulary
have not succeeded and will not succeed. Nor will the
despicable assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa diminish the
people's struggle. Just the opposite. Now is the time for
working-class and progressive forces around the world to
redouble active solidarity with the heroic Palestinian people.
The Palestinians are today in the vanguard of the struggle
against corporate globalization and imperialist domination. The
Palestinian struggle is truly the struggle of all oppressed
humanity.
Comrade Abu Ali Mustafa presente! U.S. imperialism out of
the Middle East! Palestine will win.
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